Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: enable pci resource mapping using sysfs

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 10:24 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
> Just to be clear here: I'm not against exposing the proc interface if
> something actually needs it, but all the requests we've had for this have
> been concerned only with the sysfs API. So I'd rather start with just that,
> instead of exposing both and have new software written to the proc interface,
> which we certainly want to discourage.

The point is that they are tied together. An architecture provides its
pci_mmap_page_range() function and sets HAVE_PCI_MMAP, and then the
*generic* code in drivers/pci will use it from both places.

Although as noted, there is a third userspace API in drivers/vfio which
does this *without* any arch-specific code (using pgprot_noncached(),
and failing to set up the VMA correctly on HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT platforms.

I was looking at cleaning that whole mess up, but got distracted by
kdump-on-CPU-1 failures. If I'm going to blame that on firmware, I'll
get back to PCI mmap this week... :)

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