Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: xgene: access mailbox as RAM

[Hoan Tran]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The newly added hwmon driver fails to build in an allmodconfig
> kernel:
>
>       ERROR: "memblock_is_memory" [drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.ko] undefined!
>
> According to comments in the code, the mailbox is a shared memory region,
> not a set of MMIO registers, so we should use memremap() for mapping it
> instead of ioremap or acpi_os_ioremap, and pointer dereferences instead
> of readl/writel.
>
> The driver already uses plain kernel pointers, so it's a bit unusual
> to work with functions that operate on __iomem pointers, and this
> fixes that part too.
>
> I'm using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE here to keep the existing behavior
> regarding the ordering of the accesses from the CPU, but note that
> there are no barriers (also unchanged from before).
>
> I'm also keeping the endianess behavior, though I'm unsure whether
> the message data was supposed to be in LE32 format in the first
> place, it's possible this was meant to be interpreted as a byte
> stream instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: use write-back mapping instead of write-thru,
>     minor coding style changes
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
> index bc78a5d10182..e5470bd49067 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>  #include <linux/hwmon.h>
>  #include <linux/hwmon-sysfs.h>
> +#include <linux/io.h>
>  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>  #include <linux/kfifo.h>
>  #include <linux/mailbox_controller.h>
> @@ -34,7 +35,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> -#include <acpi/acpi_io.h>
> +
>  #include <acpi/pcc.h>
>
>  /* SLIMpro message defines */
> @@ -126,10 +127,10 @@ static u16 xgene_word_tst_and_clr(u16 *addr, u16 mask)
>  {
>         u16 ret, val;
>
> -       val = readw_relaxed(addr);
> +       val = le16_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(*addr));
>         ret = val & mask;
>         val &= ~mask;
> -       writew_relaxed(val, addr);
> +       WRITE_ONCE(*addr, cpu_to_le16(val));
>
>         return ret;
>  }
> @@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ static u16 xgene_word_tst_and_clr(u16 *addr, u16 mask)
>  static int xgene_hwmon_pcc_rd(struct xgene_hwmon_dev *ctx, u32 *msg)
>  {
>         struct acpi_pcct_shared_memory *generic_comm_base = ctx->pcc_comm_addr;
> -       void *ptr = generic_comm_base + 1;
> +       u32 *ptr = (void *)(generic_comm_base + 1);
>         int rc, i;
>         u16 val;
>
> @@ -146,21 +147,21 @@ static int xgene_hwmon_pcc_rd(struct xgene_hwmon_dev *ctx, u32 *msg)
>         ctx->resp_pending = true;
>
>         /* Write signature for subspace */
> -       writel_relaxed(PCC_SIGNATURE_MASK | ctx->mbox_idx,
> -                      &generic_comm_base->signature);
> +       WRITE_ONCE(generic_comm_base->signature,
> +                  cpu_to_le32(PCC_SIGNATURE_MASK | ctx->mbox_idx));
>
>         /* Write to the shared command region */
> -       writew_relaxed(MSG_TYPE(msg[0]) | PCCC_GENERATE_DB_INT,
> -                      &generic_comm_base->command);
> +       WRITE_ONCE(generic_comm_base->command,
> +                  cpu_to_le16(MSG_TYPE(msg[0]) | PCCC_GENERATE_DB_INT));
>
>         /* Flip CMD COMPLETE bit */
> -       val = readw_relaxed(&generic_comm_base->status);
> +       val = le16_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(generic_comm_base->status));
>         val &= ~PCCS_CMD_COMPLETE;
> -       writew_relaxed(val, &generic_comm_base->status);
> +       WRITE_ONCE(generic_comm_base->status, cpu_to_le16(val));
>
>         /* Copy the message to the PCC comm space */
>         for (i = 0; i < sizeof(struct slimpro_resp_msg) / 4; i++)
> -               writel_relaxed(msg[i], ptr + i * 4);
> +               WRITE_ONCE(ptr[i], cpu_to_le32(msg[i]));
>
>         /* Ring the doorbell */
>         rc = mbox_send_message(ctx->mbox_chan, msg);
> @@ -652,9 +653,9 @@ static int xgene_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                  */
>                 ctx->comm_base_addr = cppc_ss->base_address;
>                 if (ctx->comm_base_addr) {
> -                       ctx->pcc_comm_addr =
> -                                       acpi_os_ioremap(ctx->comm_base_addr,
> -                                                       cppc_ss->length);
> +                       ctx->pcc_comm_addr = memremap(ctx->comm_base_addr,
> +                                                       cppc_ss->length,
> +                                                       MEMREMAP_WB);
>                 } else {
>                         dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to get PCC comm region\n");
>                         rc = -ENODEV;
>

Acked-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>

Thanks
Hoan