Re: [PATCH] PCI: designware: don't hard-code DBI/ATU offset

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 15/11/2018 18:24, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/14/18 9:33 PM, Gustavo Pimentel wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 14/11/2018 04:31, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 11/12/18 9:19 PM, Gustavo Pimentel wrote:
>>>> Hi Stephen,
>>>>
>>>> I'd suggest to change the designware on the patch name by dwc and use another
>>>> description for the patch instead of don't hard-code DBI/ATU offset.
>>>
>>> What issue do you see with the patch description? I believe it's
>>> correct/accurate. Perhaps the confusion is due to the question you
>>> raised below; see my answer there.
>>>
>>>> On 12/11/2018 22:57, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> The DWC PCIe core contains various separate register spaces: DBI, DBI2,
>>>>> ATU, DMA, etc. The relationship between the addresses of these register
>>>>> spaces is entirely determined by the implementation of the IP block, not
>>>>> by the IP block design itself. Hence, the DWC driver must not make
>>>>> assumptions that one register space can be accessed at a fixed offset from
>>>>> any other register space. To avoid such assumptions, introduce an
>>>>> explicit/separate register pointer for the ATU register space. In
>>>>> particular, the current assumption is not valid for NVIDIA's T194 SoC.
>>>>
>>>> If I understood this patch correctly, you basically replace the dbi_base offset
>>>> by atu_base offset that still depends of dbi_base offset.
>>>
>>> That's not what the patch does.
>>>
>>> The patch leaves most DBI accesses still using dbi_base, but updates
>>> just a few accesses to use atu_base. Thus, after the patch, all accesses
>>> use the correct base address for the register being accessed.
>>>
>>> There is a default value supplied for atu_base, which does indeed depend
>>> on dbi_base. This maintains backwards compatibility, so that all the
>>> existing drivers don't need to be updated to explicitly set atu_base,
>>> and will continue to use the existing offset between DBI and ATU base.
>>
>> I think we're talking about the same thing, but with different terms.
>>
>>> In the future, we'll send a driver for the NVIDIA Tegra SoC which does
>>> explicitly set atu_base to a non-default value.
>>
>> That's what I wanted to know. Because otherwise this patch was just to turn the
>> code more readable.
> 
> So it sounds like I've addressed your questions? If so, is the next step
> for you to ack the patch and Bjorn to apply it? Thanks!
> 

Please change "designware" by "dwc" on the title (which is the normal tag) as I
suggested and put the first letter of "don't" in capital letter.

With that fix, please re-submit patch version.

Acked-by: Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

Regards,
Gustavo




[Index of Archives]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux USB]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Greybus]

  Powered by Linux