RE: [PATCH] RISC-V: Add PCIe I/O BAR memory mapping

[Yash Shah]

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > On 2019-10-24 3:14 a.m., Yash Shah wrote:
> > > For I/O BARs to work correctly on RISC-V Linux, we need to establish
> > > a reserved memory region for them, so that drivers that wish to use
> > > I/O BARs can issue reads and writes against a memory region that is
> > > mapped to the host PCIe controller's I/O BAR MMIO mapping.
> >
> > I don't think other arches do this.
> 
> $ git grep 'define PCI_IOBASE' arch/
> arch/arm/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE            ((void __iomem
> *)PCI_IO_VIRT_BASE)
> arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE          ((void __iomem
> *)PCI_IO_START)
> arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h:#define PCI_IOBASE        ((void __iomem *)
> PCI_IO_PA)
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE     ((void __iomem
> *)_IO_BASE)
> arch/unicore32/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE
> PKUNITY_PCILIO_BASE
> arch/xtensa/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE         ((void __iomem
> *)XCHAL_KIO_BYPASS_VADDR)
> $
> 
> This is for the old x86-style, non-memory mapped I/O address space the
> legacy PCI stuff that one would use in{b,w,l}()/out{b,w,l}() for.
> 
> Yash, you might consider updating your patch description to note that this is
> for "legacy I/O BARs (i.e., non-MMIO BARs)" or something similar.  That
> might make things clearer.

Sure, will update the description and send v2.

- Yash

> 
> > ioremap() typically just uses virtual address space in the VMALLOC
> > region, PCI doesn't need it's own range. As far as I know the
> > ioremap() implementation in riscv already does this.
> >
> > In any case, 16MB for PCI bar space seems woefully inadequate.
> 
> The modern MMIO PCI resources wind up in jost controller apertures, which
> as you note, are usually much larger.  They don't go in this legacy space.
> 
> Regarding sizing - I haven't seen any PCIe cards with more than 64KiB of
> legacy I/O resources.  (16MiB / 64KiB) = 256, so 16MiB sounds reasonable
> from that point of view?  ARM64 is using that.
> 
> 
> - Paul