Re: [PATCH v4 09/16] s390: mm: Convert to GENERIC_IOREMAP

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On 02/21/23 at 01:26pm, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 19:48 +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 02/16/23 at 05:21pm, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 20:34 +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > By taking GENERIC_IOREMAP method, the generic generic_ioremap_prot(),
> > > > generic_iounmap(), and their generic wrapper ioremap_prot(), ioremap()
> > > > and iounmap() are all visible and available to arch. Arch needs to
> > > > provide wrapper functions to override the generic versions if there's
> > > > arch specific handling in its ioremap_prot(), ioremap() or iounmap().
> > > > This change will simplify implementation by removing duplicated codes
> > > > with generic_ioremap_prot() and generic_iounmap(), and has the equivalent
> > > > functioality as before.
> > > > 
> > > > Here, add wrapper functions ioremap_prot() and iounmap() for s390's
> > > > special operation when ioremap() and iounmap().
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/s390/Kconfig          |  1 +
> > > >  arch/s390/include/asm/io.h | 21 ++++++++------
> > > >  arch/s390/pci/pci.c        | 57 +++++++-------------------------------
> > > >  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the patch. This is a very clear improvement for us! I tested
> > > this series with s390 systems with and without the PCI memory-I/O (MIO)
> > > support and everything works as expected.
> > > 
> > > One thing I did stumble upon but which is independent from this patch
> > > is that I think memremap(…, MEMREMAP_WB) on system RAM outside the
> > > direct map is broken for us. At least on systems without PCI memory-I/O
> > > support. I think with this series it would be much easier to fix
> > > though. Basically I think we would have to define arch_memremap_wb() to
> > > generic_ioremap_prot(…, PAGE_KERNEL) and then have iounmap() check
> > > is_ioremap_addr() to see if it is an actual mapping or an address
> > > cookie. But again this is independent of this patch which doesn't
> > > change the behavior in this area.
> > 
> > OK, I can check this after this patchset done.
> 
> Oh this wasn't meant as adding a task for you just a FYI. I'm already
> experimenting with this and plan to possibly send a patch that fixes
> the case of remapping system RAM once your series has landed. The thing
> is that memremap() is quite tricky for us whichever way you look at
> it. 
> 
> We don't have real MMIO on s390x and thus using memremap() for PCI MMIO
> spaces doesn't really work as the void* returned can still only be
> accessed using ioread()/iowrite() because only our special PCI access
> instructions work on the pseudo-MMIO addresses (with PCI MIO)
> respectively the address cookies. Obviously void* and memremap() really
> isn't the right tool if you need to use ioread()/iowrite() to access it
> and can't treat it as memory though.

Ah, I misunderstood it. Thanks for sharing and expect to see your post.




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