Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] arm64: dts: ti: Add Support for AM654 SoC

From: Nishanth Menon
Date: Mon Aug 27 2018 - 21:23:00 EST


On 15:55-20180827, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> [180827 03:06]:
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > On Monday 20 August 2018 08:01 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > * Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> [180808 06:35]:
> > >> On Tuesday 05 June 2018 07:35 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > >>> Really need 64-bit addresses and sizes? Use ranges to limit the
> > >>> address space if possible.
> > >>
> > >> We now have address-cells as <1>,
> > >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am65.dtsi#n49
> > >>
> > >> However each PCIe instance has 2 data regions and one of the regions
> > >> (PCIE0_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_DAT1/PCIE1_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_DAT1 specified
> > >> in the "MAIN Domain Memory Map" table of TRM http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruid7)
> > >> is above the 32bit region and requires 2 cells to specify the start address.
> > >> This region is used to access MEM_SPACE of PCIe endpoint when operating in root
> > >> complex mode and access memory of PCI root complex when operating in endpoint mode.
> > >>
> > >> In order to describe this, should we change the address-cells back to <2> or do
> > >> you suggest any other alternatives?
> > >
> > > It's probably best to have the top level cbass interconnect use
> > > #size-cells = <2> and then have it's child interconnects have
> > > #size-cells = <1> if they don't need ranges above 4GB.
> >
> > PCIe has a region starting at 0x40_00000000 and size 4GB. We need 2 address
> > cells and 2 size cells to describe this no?
>
> Yes.
>
> > > BTW, what's the difference between all these three similar PCIE
> > > ranges?
> > >
> > > PCIE0_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_CORE 0x0005500000 0x0005600000 1 MB
> > > PCIE1_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_CORE 0x0005600000 0x0005700000 1 MB
> >
> > This is the register space for the two instances of PCIe controller.
> > >
> > > PCIE0_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_DAT0 0x0010000000 0x0018000000 128 MB
> > > PCIE1_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_DAT0 0x0018000000 0x0020000000 128 MB
> > >
> > > PCIE0_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_DAT1 0x4000000000 0x4100000000 4 GB
> > > PCIE1_CORE_CORE_DAT_SLV_PCIE_DAT1 0x4100000000 0x4200000000 4 GB
> >
> > The above are regions which can be used by CPU/DMA to access the PCIe address
> > space. The mapping from the above regions to the PCIe address space will be
> > programmed in the PCIe controller.
>
> OK so not just somethng for dma-ranges but also accessible by
> the CPU.
>

Kishon, Sekhar:

Can you guys post patches based on v4.19-rc1 for fixing this? I do have
a bunch of dts nodes to build as well for v4.20, once Tony / Rob acks the
changes.

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon