Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] PCI: brcmstb: add Broadcom STB PCIe host controller driver

[Nicolas Saenz Julienne]

On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 10:31 -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/26/19 3:19 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > From: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This adds a basic driver for Broadcom's STB PCIe controller, for now
> > aimed at Raspberry Pi 4's SoC, bcm2711.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Co-developed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes since v2:
> >    - Correct rc_bar2_offset sign
> >    - Invert IRQ clear and masking in setup code
> >    - Use bitfield.h, redo all register ops while keeping the register
> >      names intact
> >    - Remove all SHIFT register definitions
> >    - Get rid of all _RB writes
> >    - Get rid of of_data
> >    - Don't iterate over inexisting dma-ranges
> >    - Add comment regarding dma-ranges validation
> >    - Small cosmetic cleanups
> >    - Fix license mismatch
> >    - Set driver Kconfig tristate
> >    - Didn't add any comment about the controller not being I/O coherent
> >      for now as I wait for Jeremy's reply
> 
> I guess its fine.. In answer to the original query. It seems that this 
> PCIe bridge requires explicit cache operations for DMA from PCIe 
> endpoints. This wasn't obvious to me at first reading because I was 
> assuming the custom DMA ops were strictly to deal with the stated DMA 
> limits.

Thanks, I now see what you meant.

> So if you end up respinning, it still might be worthy mentioning 
> somewhere that this is a non-coherent PCIe implementation. I still hold 
> much of my original reservations about pieces of this driver. 
> Particularly, how it might look if someone wanted to boot the RPi using 
> ACPI on linux. But, I was shown a clever bit of AML recently, which 
> solves those problems for the RPi and the attached XHCI.

I don't know much about ACPI, but ultimately if you're booting trough ACPI,
you're unlikely to use device-tree at all, right? And if you where and this
driver clashed with your ACPI implementation you'd simply have to disable it on
the device-tree.

> So, given how much time I've looked at the root port configuration/etc 
> sections of this driver and I've not found a serious bug:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Regards,
Nicolas

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