Re: [PATCH v5 04/12] PCI: brcmstb: add dma-range mapping for inbound traffic

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On 09/19/2018 07:19 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 19 September 2018 at 07:31, Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The Broadcom STB PCIe host controller is intimately related to the
>> memory subsystem.  This close relationship adds complexity to how cpu
>> system memory is mapped to PCIe memory.  Ideally, this mapping is an
>> identity mapping, or an identity mapping off by a constant.  Not so in
>> this case.
>>
>> Consider the Broadcom reference board BCM97445LCC_4X8 which has 6 GB
>> of system memory.  Here is how the PCIe controller maps the
>> system memory to PCIe memory:
>>
>>   memc0-a@[        0....3fffffff] <=> pci@[        0....3fffffff]
>>   memc0-b@[100000000...13fffffff] <=> pci@[ 40000000....7fffffff]
>>   memc1-a@[ 40000000....7fffffff] <=> pci@[ 80000000....bfffffff]
>>   memc1-b@[300000000...33fffffff] <=> pci@[ c0000000....ffffffff]
>>   memc2-a@[ 80000000....bfffffff] <=> pci@[100000000...13fffffff]
>>   memc2-b@[c00000000...c3fffffff] <=> pci@[140000000...17fffffff]
>>
> 
> So is describing this as
> 
> dma-ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x40000000>,
>              <0x0 0x40000000 0x1 0x0 0x0 0x40000000>,
>              <0x0 0x80000000 0x0 0x40000000 0x0 0x40000000>,
>              <0x0 0xc0000000 0x3 0x0 0x0 0x40000000>,
>              <0x1 0x0 0x0 0x80000000 0x0 0x40000000>,
>              <0x1 0x40000000 0x0 0xc0000000 0x0 0x40000000>;
> 
> not working for you? I haven't tried this myself, but since DT permits
> describing the inbound mappings this way, we should fix the code if it
> doesn't work at the moment.

You mean encoding the memory controller index in the first cell? If that
works, that's indeed a much cleaner solution, though is it standard
compliant in any form?
-- 
Florian



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