Re: use IORESOURCE_REG resource type for non-translatable addresses in DT

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Jul 29 2014 - 21:07:43 EST


On 07/29/14 16:45, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:06:42 +0300, Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This was just an example. Of course it has many issues and probaly it is
>> wrong:) The main goal was to understand does IORESOURCE_REG resource
>> type and parsing the *reg* properties for non-translatable addresses are
>> feasible. And also does it acceptable by community and OF platform
>> maintainers.
> The use case is actually very different from of_address_to_resource or
> of_get_address() because those APIs explicitly return physical memory
> addresses from the CPU perspective. It makes more sense to create a new
> API that doesn't attempt to translate the reg address. Alternately, a
> new API that only translates upto a given parent node.

The most important thing is that platform_get_resource{_by_name}(&pdev,
IORESOURCE_REG, n) returns the reg property and optional size encoded
into a struct resource. I think Rob is suggesting we circumvent the
entire of_address_to_resource() path and do some if
(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF) && type == IORESOURCE_REG) check in
platform_get_resource() to package up the reg property into a struct
resource. That should work.

It sounds like you think partially translating addresses is risky
though. Fair enough. Perhaps we should call WARN() if someone tries to
call platform_get_resource() with IORESOURCE_REG and the parent node has
a ranges property that isn't a one-to-one conversion. That way if we
want to do something like this we can.

pmic@0 {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
reg = <0>;

regulators {
ranges;
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;

regulator@40 {
reg = <0x40>;
};

regulator@50 {
reg = <0x50>;
}
};
};

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