Re: [PATCH V3 00/21] MMCONFIG refactoring and support for ARM64 PCI hostbridge init based on ACPI

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:32:03PM -0500, Mark Salter wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 17:07 +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:38:44AM -0500, Mark Salter wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > You would lose that bet. AddressMinimum/Maximum describe the
> > > PCI bus addresses.
> > 
> > In the mainline DT (APM Mustang), the CPU physical address corresponding
> > to IO space is 0xe010000000, PCI bus address is 0x0.
> > 
> > >                 QWordIO (ResourceProducer, MinFixed, MaxFixed, PosDecode, EntireRange,
> > >                     0x0000000000000000, // Granularity
> > >                     0x0000000010000000, // Range Minimum
> > 
> > 
> > >                     0x000000001000FFFF, // Range Maximum
> > >                     0x000000E000000000, // Translation Offset
> > 
> > See above, I will get the APM specifications to countercheck.
> 
> The spec won't help other than to verify that the PCIe bridge supports
> a 32-bit IO address space. The firmware sets the PCI bus base @
> 0x10000000 with a CPU base address for that window @ 0xe010000000. The
> pci-xgene.c driver sets the PCI bus IO base address to whatever DT
> tells it too. For ACPI, we have to use whatever the firmware set it to
> and described it in the ACPI table.

It makes sense, thank you for clarifying (and sorry for jumping
to conclusions, I am a bit worried about the ACPI IO space descriptors
specification and usage on arm64).

> When I looked at this a while back, neither ACPI nor PCI had anything
> which disallowed 32-bit IO space on the PCI bus. The 16-bit limit is
> an x86 limit in the instruction set.

We should ask Jiang to remove that check or to make it x86 only (does
current mainline - where the offset is added to the resource start/end -
work on ia64 ?)

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> 
> > 
> > I agree with you we have to verify if this IO space limitation is
> > real or it is just an x86ism, in which case we remove that check.
> > 
> > Lorenzo
> > >                     0x0000000000010000, // Length
> > >                     ,, , TypeStatic)
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Jiang's patch:
> > > > 
> > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/16/249
> > > > 
> > > > parses the IO descriptors and stores the AddressMinimum, AddressMaximum
> > > > in the IO resource (with AddressTranslation as offset which must be the
> > > > *CPU* physical address mapping IO), from the log above it seems to me in
> > > > AddressMinimum APM specifies the *CPU* physical address generating IO
> > > > cycles.
> > > > 
> > > > All in all, I was right to fear this would happen, and I already
> > > > raised the point within the ACPI spec working group, ACPI IO
> > > > descriptors specification is ambiguous and we must agree on how
> > > > they have to be specified once for all.
> > > > 
> > > > Lorenzo
> > > 
>