Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] pci: Introduce pci_register_io_range() helper function.

[Liviu Dudau]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 07:43:28PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > Some architectures do not have a simple view of the PCI I/O space
> > and instead use a range of CPU addresses that map to bus addresses. For
> > some architectures these ranges will be expressed by OF bindings
> > in a device tree file.
> > 
> > Introduce a pci_register_io_range() helper function with a generic
> > implementation that can be used by such architectures to keep track
> > of the I/O ranges described by the PCI bindings. If the PCI_IOBASE
> > macro is not defined that signals lack of support for PCI and we
> > return an error.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +/*
> > + * Record the PCI IO range (expressed as CPU physical address + size).
> > + * Return a negative value if an error has occured, zero otherwise
> > + */
> > +int __weak pci_register_io_range(phys_addr_t addr, resource_size_t size)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef PCI_IOBASE
> > +	struct io_range *res;
> > +	resource_size_t allocated_size = 0;
> > +
> > +	/* check if the range hasn't been previously recorded */
> > +	list_for_each_entry(res, &io_range_list, list) {
> > +		if (addr >= res->start && addr + size <= res->start + size)
> > +			return 0;
> > +		allocated_size += res->size;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	/* range not registed yet, check for available space */
> > +	if (allocated_size + size - 1 > IO_SPACE_LIMIT)
> > +		return -E2BIG;
> > +
> > +	/* add the range to the list */
> > +	res = kzalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!res)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	res->start = addr;
> > +	res->size = size;
> > +
> > +	list_add_tail(&res->list, &io_range_list);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> 
> Hopefully a stupid question, but how is this serialised? I'm just surprised
> that adding to and searching a list are sufficient, unless there's a big
> lock somewhere.

Sorry, tripped into my own filters!

You are right, there is no serialisation here, will add one.

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> Will
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