Re: [Query] : PCIe - Endpoint Function

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Hi Kishon,


On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:53 AM Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> On 11/10/19 7:07 PM, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> > Hi Kishon
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 8:35 AM Lad, Prabhakar
> > <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Kishon,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 12:32 PM Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Prabhakar,
> >>>
> >>> On 10/10/19 4:57 PM, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am currently working on adding pcie-endpoint support for a
> >>>> controller, this controller doesn't support outbound- inbound address
> >>>> translations, it has 1-1 mapping between the CPU and PCI addresses,
> >>>> the current endpoint framework is based on  outbound-inbound
> >>>> translations, what is the best approach to add this support, or is
> >>>> there any WIP already for it ?
> >>>
> >>> How will the endpoint access host buffer without outbound ATU? I assume the PCI
> >>> address reserved for endpoint is not the full 32-bit or 64-bit address space?
> >>> In that case, the endpoint cannot directly access the host buffer (unless the
> >>> host already knows the address space of the endpoint and gives the endpoint an
> >>> address in its OB address space).
> >>>
> > I lied in my previous mail.
> >
> > a] The controller needs the cpu_address before starting the link, ie
> > with the current implementation,the bars physical address in endpoint
> > are assigned
> > using dma_alloc_coherent(), but I what I actually want here is the
> > phys_addr returned by pci_epc_mem_alloc_addr().
> >
> > b] In the pci_endpoint_test driver, the pci_address sent to the
> > endpoint driver is again dma_alloc_coherent(), but the address which I
> > actually want to
> > send to endpoint is the BAR's assigned regions in the RC.
>
> The BAR assigned regions are usually used by RC to access EP memory.
> dma_alloc_coherent() is used in pci_endpoint_test to allocate buffer in host
> memory to be accessed by EP. Can you again check if statement 'b' is accurate?
>
yes you were correct, I misread the manual I have a rough driver
working now, will post as
soon as I tidy it up.

Cheers,
--Prabhakar



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