Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64: dts: imx8mp: remove arm, primecell-periphid at etm nodes

[Alexander Stein]

Hi Frank,

Am Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2023, 16:39:07 CEST schrieb Frank Li:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 12:06:19PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > > > Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2023, 22:59:53 CEST schrieb Frank Li:
> > > > > The reg size of etm nodes is incorrectly set to 64k instead of 4k.
> > > > > This
> > > > > leads to a crash when calling amba_read_periphid().  After corrected
> > > > > reg
> > > > > size, amba_read_periphid() retrieve the correct periphid.
> > > > > arm,primecell-periphid were removed from the etm nodes.
> > > > 
> > > > So this means the reference manual is wrong here? It clearly states
> > > > the size is 64kiB. Reference Manual i.MX8MP Rev 1. 06/2021
> > > > On a side note: Is imx8mq affected by this as well? The DAP memory
> > > > table lists similar sizes in the RM .
> > > 
> > > Note that the 64K MMIO space per device is really an alignment thing.
> > > It's a recommendation from ARM to allow individual device MMIO regions
> > > to be mapped on kernels with 64K page size. Most of the time the real
> > > MMIO space occupied by the device is actually much smaller than 64K.
> > 
> > Indeed, it's quite common for TRM memory maps to be written in terms of
> > the
> > interconnect configuration, i.e. from the point of view of the
> > interconnect
> > itself, that whole range of address space is assigned to that peripheral,
> > and it may even be true that the entire range is routed to the port where
> > that peripheral is connected. However what's of more interest for DT is
> > how
> > much of that range the peripheral itself actually decodes.
> 
> Yes, there are not problem by mapping bigger space in most case.
> 
> amba bus's periphal use close to end of region to show device's identical
> information.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. This make things more clear.
But on the other is it sensible to assume the memory resource size to fit the 
IP address space? It appears to me the size is fixed to 4kiB anyway. Would it 
make more sense to read the values from the address "base + 4K - x" instead of 
"base + size - x"?

Best regards,
Alexander

> In drivers/amba/bus.c,
> 
> amba_read_periphid()
> {
> 	...
> 	size = resource_size(&dev->res);
> 	...
> 	for (pid = 0, i = 0; i < 4; i++)
> 		pid |= (readl(tmp + size - 0x20 + 4 * i) & 255) << (i * 
8);
> }
> 
> So the range in DTS for arm,primecell should be actual IP address space.
> 
> > Robin.
> > 
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