Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] PCI: xilinx: Don't allocate extra memory for the MSI capture address

[Marc Zyngier]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:35:58 +0000,
Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Marc for the patch.
> > Subject: [PATCH v2 04/15] PCI: xilinx: Don't allocate extra memory for the
> > MSI capture address
> > 
> > A long cargo-culted behaviour of PCI drivers is to allocate memory to obtain
> > an address that is fed to the controller as the MSI capture address (i.e. the
> > MSI doorbell).
> > 
> > But there is no actual requirement for this address to be RAM.
> > All it needs to be is a suitable aligned address that will
> > *not* be DMA'd to.
> > 
> > Use the physical address of the 'port' data structure as the MSI capture
> > address.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pci/controller/pcie-xilinx.c | 18 ++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> ...
> > -	msg.address_hi = 0;
> > -	msg.address_lo = msg_addr;
> > +	msg.address_hi = upper_32_bits(msg_addr);
> > +	msg.address_lo = lower_32_bits(msg_addr);
> 
> The XILINX_PCIE_REG_MSIBASE2 register expects 4KB aligned address.
> The lower 12-bits are always set to 0 in this register. So we need
> to mask the address while programming address to

Thanks for the heads up, I'll fix this up. Does it work correctly once
the address is aligned?

	M.

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