Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: Add IORESOURCE_BIT entry for PCIe ECAM resources.

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 03 June 2014 09:44:59 Grant Likely wrote:
> > The reason I think allow an ECAM makes sense in ranges is because it allows for a direct IO read/write to CFG space (w/o any mapping) similar to what one would do for MEM space or IO.
> 
> I don't think that's right. PCI addresses are defined as follows:
> phys.hi cell: npt000ss bbbbbbbb dddddfff rrrrrrrr
> phys.mid cell: hhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh
> phys.low cell: llllllll llllllll llllllll llllllll
> 
> where 'ddddd' is the device number (0-31) and 'fff' is the function number (0-7)
> 
> Going up by one device number or even function number does not result in
> contiguious address values:
> 
> device 0: 0x00000000 00000000 00000000
> device 1: 0x00000800 00000000 00000000
> device 2: 0x00001000 00000000 00000000
> device 3: 0x00001800 00000000 00000000
> ...
> device 30:0x0000f000 00000000 00000000
> device 31:0x0000f800 00000000 00000000
> 
> a simple ranges doesn't work transparently because each of those config
> ranges needs to be mapped to a 4k block. I think ranges would need to
> look like this:
> 
> ranges = <0x00000000 0 0  0x0ff00000  0x1000>,
>          <0x00000800 0 0  0x0ff01000  0x1000>,
>          <0x00001800 0 0  0x0ff02000  0x1000>,
>          ...
>          <0x0000f000 0 0  0x0ff1e000  0x1000>,
>          <0x0000f800 0 0  0x0ff1f000  0x1000>;
> 
> (I just hacked the above up; I make no claims to it's accuracy for
> actual address values)
> 
> But I don't even thing the semantics work there because the address is
> encoded in the phys.hi cell, not the phys.low cell. Incrementing by one
> does not behaves as most bus addresses work. To actually work properly
> we would have needed a way to define a stride of 64bits when
> incrementing config space addresses in a ranges mapping.

Thanks for clearing that up. I always suspected it was roughly this
way, but never managed to think it through completely before getting
distracted by something else.

I wonder if the OF definition matches CAM though, if not ECAM, as
CAM is also limited to 256 byte config space per function.

	Arnd
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