Re: Purpose of PCI address in ranges property

From: valmiki
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 23:00:22 EST


On 3/20/2017 3:15 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 3:14 PM, valmiki <valmikibow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

When ranges property is being parsed using of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources,
the pci address is being used for
calculating the offset for pci_add_resource_offset.

What is this offset for ?

So the cpu address is being used for programming memory base and limit
registers ?

Linux IORESOURCE_MEM resources are defined in terms of CPU addresses,
while PCI config space BAR registers are programmed with bus addresses.
These are often the same, but on some machines they are not, which results
in an offset that has to be used when accessing the BARs.

Thanks Arnd. So mem base and limit registers of RP are programmed with CPU addresses,
and EP BARs are programmed with PCI bus addresses ?
So when will this offset be used, only when RP assigns BAR's to RP ?

Regards,
Valmiki