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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] lib/iomap.c: improve comment about pci anomaly
From:   Philipp Stanner <pstanner@redhat.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
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Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:38:41 +0100
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On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 11:03 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023, at 22:59, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > lib/iomap.c contains one of the definitions of pci_iounmap(). The
> > current comment above this out-of-place function does not clarify
> > WHY
> > the function is defined here.
> >=20
> > Linus's detailed comment above pci_iounmap() in drivers/pci/iomap.c
> > clarifies that in a far better way.
> >=20
> > Extend the existing comment with an excerpt from Linus's and hint
> > at the
> > other implementation in drivers/pci/iomap.c
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@redhat.com>
>=20
> I think instead of explaining why the code is so complicated
> here, I'd prefer to make it more logical and not have to
> explain it.
>=20
> We should be able to define a generic version like
>=20
> void pci_iounmap(struct pci_dev *dev, void __iomem * addr)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 if (iomem_is_ioport(addr)) {
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
=C2=A0 ioport_unmap(addr);
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
=C2=A0 return;
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 }
> #endif
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 iounmap(addr)
> }

And where would you like such a function to reside?
drivers/pci/iomap.c?

P.

>=20
> and then define iomem_is_ioport() in lib/iomap.c for x86,
> while defining it in asm-generic/io.h for the rest,
> with an override in asm/io.h for those architectures
> that need a custom inb().
>=20
> Note that with ia64 gone, GENERIC_IOMAP is not at all
> generic any more and could just move it to x86 or name
> it something else. This is what currently uses it:
>=20
> arch/hexagon/Kconfig:=C2=A0=C2=A0 select GENERIC_IOMAP
> arch/um/Kconfig:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 select GENERIC=
_IOMAP
>=20
> These have no port I/O at all, so it doesn't do anything.
>=20
> arch/m68k/Kconfig:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 select GENERIC_IOMAP
>=20
> on m68knommu, the default implementation from asm-generic/io.h
> as the same effect as GENERIC_IOMAP but is more efficient.
> On classic m68k, GENERIC_IOMAP does not do what it is
> meant to because I/O ports on ISA devices have port
> numbers above PIO_OFFSET. Also they don't have PCI.
>=20
> arch/mips/Kconfig:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 select GENERIC_IOMAP
>=20
> This looks completely bogus because it sets PIO_RESERVED
> to 0 and always uses the mmio part of lib/iomap.c.=20
>=20
> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig: select GENERIC_IOMAP
>=20
> This is only used for two platforms: cell and powernv,
> though on Cell it no longer does anything after the
> commit f4981a00636 ("powerpc: Remove the celleb support");
> I think the entire io_workarounds code now be folded
> back into spider_pci.c if we wanted to.
>=20
> The PowerNV LPC support does seem to still rely on it.
> This tries to do the exact same thing as lib/logic_pio.c
> for Huawei arm64 servers. I suspect that neither of them
> does it entirely correctly since the powerpc side appears
> to just override any non-LPC PIO support while the arm64
> side is missing the ioread/iowrite support.
>=20
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Arnd
>=20