RE: [PATCH V5 3/3] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on Hip06

[Gabriele Paoloni]

Hi Arnd many thanks for your help here

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 3/3] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on
> Hip06
> 
> On Monday, November 14, 2016 11:26:25 AM CET liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:26:42AM +0000, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
> > > > Nope, that is not what it means. It means that PCI devices can
> see I/O
> > > > addresses
> > > > on the bus that start from 0. There never was any usage for non-
> PCI
> > > > controllers
> > >
> > > So I am a bit confused...
> > > From http://www.firmware.org/1275/bindings/isa/isa0_4d.ps
> > > It seems that ISA buses operate on cpu I/O address range [0,
> 0xFFF].
> > > I thought that was the reason why for most architectures we have
> > > PCIBIOS_MIN_IO equal to 0x1000 (so I thought that ISA controllers
> > > usually use [0, PCIBIOS_MIN_IO - 1] )
> >
> > First of all, cpu I/O addresses is an x86-ism. ARM architectures and
> others
> >  have no separate address space for I/O, it is all merged into one
> unified
> > address space. So, on arm/arm64 for example, PCIBIOS_MIN_IO = 0 could
> mean
> > that we don't care about ISA I/O because the platform does not
> support having
> > an ISA bus (e.g.).
> 
> I think to be more specific, PCIBIOS_MIN_IO=0 would indicate that you
> cannot
> have a PCI-to-ISA or PCI-to-LPC bridge in any PCI domain. This is
> different
> from having an LPC master outside of PCI, as that lives in its own
> domain
> and has a separately addressable I/O space.

Yes correct so if we go for the single domain solution arch that
have PCIBIOS_MIN_IO=0 cannot support special devices such as LPC
unless we also redefine PCIBIOS_MIN_IO, right?

> 
> > > As said before this series forbid IO tokens to be in [0,
> PCIBIOS_MIN_IO)
> > > to allow special ISA controllers to use that range with special
> > > accessors.
> > > Having a variable threshold would make life much more difficult
> > > as there would be a probe dependency between the PCI controller and
> > > the special ISA one (PCI to wait for the special ISA device to be
> > > probed and set the right threshold value from DT or ACPI table).
> > >
> > > Instead using PCIBIOS_MIN_IO is easier and should not impose much
> > > constraint as [PCIBIOS_MIN_IO, IO_SPACE_LIMIT] is available to
> > > the PCI controller for I/O tokens...
> >
> > What I am suggesting is to leave PCIBIOS_MIN_IO alone which still
> reserves
> > space for ISA controller and add a PCIBIOS_MIN_DIRECT_IO that will
> reserve
> > space for your direct address I/O on top of PCIBIOS_MIN_IO.
> 
> The PCIBIOS_MIN_DIRECT_IO name still suggests having something related
> to
> PCIBIOS_MIN_IO, but it really isn't. We are talking about multiple
> concepts here that are not the same but that are somewhat related:
> 
> a) keeping PCI devices from allocating low I/O ports on the PCI bus
>    that would conflict with ISA devices behind a bridge of the
>    same bus.
> 
> b) reserving the low 0x0-0xfff range of the Linux-internal I/O
>    space abstraction to a particular LPC or PCI domain to make
>    legacy device drivers work that hardcode a particular port
>    number.
> 
> c) Redirecting inb/outb to call a domain-specific accessor function
>    rather than doing the normal MMIO window for an LPC master or
>    more generally any arbitrary LPC or PCI domain that has a
>    nonstandard I/O space.
>    [side note: actually if we generalized this, we could avoid
>     assigning an MMIO range for the I/O space on the pci-mvebu
>     driver, and that would help free up some other remapping
>     windows]
> 
> I think there is no need to change a) here, we have PCIBIOS_MIN_IO
> today and even if we don't need it, there is no obvious downside.
> I would also argue that we can ignore b) for the discussion of
> the HiSilicon LPC driver, we just need to assign some range
> of logical addresses to each domain.
> 
> That means solving c) is the important problem here, and it
> shouldn't be so hard.  We can do this either with a single
> special domain as in the v5 patch series, or by generalizing it
> so that any I/O space mapping gets looked up through the device
> pointer of the bus master.

I am not very on the "generalized" multi-domain solution...
Currently the IO accessors prototypes have an unsigned long addr
as input parameter. If we live in a multi-domain IO system
how can we distinguish inside the accessor which domain addr
belongs to?

Thanks

Gab

> 
> 	Arnd