Re: [PATCH 1/2] openrisc: Add pci bus support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 11:15 PM Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch adds required definitions to allow for PCI buses on OpenRISC.
> This is being in the QEMU virt platform.
>
> OpenRISC does not have IO ports so this defines PCI IO to be allowed in
> any range.  Keeping PIO_RESERVED defined as 0 allows OpenRISC to use
> MMIO for all IO.

>
>  /*
> - * PCI: can we really do 0 here if we have no port IO?
> + * PCI: All address space can be used for IO
>   */
> -#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT         0
> +#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT ~(0UL)

I think '0' is the correct limit here if you don't support PCI controllers
that can map their I/O ports into MMIO space. If you don't define
PCI_IOBASE to a meaningful value and set IO_SPACE_LIMIT as you
do here, every virtual address is treated as an I/O port, so accessing
a low port through /dev/ioport or a PCI driver results in an access to
a NULL pointer, which is either a userspace address or low kernel
memory, both of which are bad.

Most PCI controller are however able to map I/O ports into the
physical address space of the CPU, and in that case you can just
define an otherwise unused address as PCI_IOBASE and map the
ports there from the PCI host bridge driver.

       Arnd