Re: [PATCH] PCI: mediatek: Fix sparse warning caused to virt_to_phys() prototype change

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Nov 21 2023 - 17:23:32 EST


On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 02:05:56PM -0800, Stanislav Kinsburskii wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 03:37:55PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:40:33PM -0800, Stanislav Kinsburskii wrote:
> > > Explicitly cast __iomem pointer to const void* with __force to fix the
> > > following warning:
> > >
> > > warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> > > expected void const volatile *address
> > > got void [noderef] __iomem *
> >
> > I have two questions about this:
> >
> > 1) There's no other use of __force in drivers/pci, so I don't know
> > what's special about pcie-mediatek.c. There should be a way to fix
> > the types so it's not needed.
>
> __force suppreses the following sparse warning:
>
> warning: cast removes address space '__iomem' of expression

I'm suggesting that the cast is a band-aid that covers up a type
mismatch, and there shouldn't be a mismatch in the first place.

> > 2) virt_to_phys() is not quite right to begin with because what we
> > want is a *bus* address, not the CPU physical address we get from
> > virt_to_phys(). Obviously the current platforms that use this must
> > not apply any offset between bus and CPU physical addresses, but
> > it's not something we should rely on.
> >
> > There are only three drivers (pci-aardvark.c, pcie-xilinx.c, and
> > this one) that use virt_to_phys(), and they're all slightly wrong
> > here.
> >
> > The *_compose_msi_msg() methods could use a little more consistency
> > across the board.
>
> Could you elaborate on what do you suggest?
> Should virt_to_phys() be simply removed?

The DMA API (Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst) is the usual way to
get bus addresses, since an MSI is basically a DMA on the PCI bus.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20230914203146.GA77870@bhelgaas/

Nobody is very motivated to fix these, I guess ;) I sort of hate to
just throw in a cast to shut up the warning because it doesn't really
solve the problem.

> > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek.c | 4 ++--
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek.c
> > > index 66a8f73296fc..27f0f79810a1 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mediatek.c
> > > @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static void mtk_compose_msi_msg(struct irq_data *data, struct msi_msg *msg)
> > > phys_addr_t addr;
> > >
> > > /* MT2712/MT7622 only support 32-bit MSI addresses */
> > > - addr = virt_to_phys(port->base + PCIE_MSI_VECTOR);
> > > + addr = virt_to_phys((__force const void *)port->base + PCIE_MSI_VECTOR);
> > > msg->address_hi = 0;
> > > msg->address_lo = lower_32_bits(addr);
> > >
> > > @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static void mtk_pcie_enable_msi(struct mtk_pcie_port *port)
> > > u32 val;
> > > phys_addr_t msg_addr;
> > >
> > > - msg_addr = virt_to_phys(port->base + PCIE_MSI_VECTOR);
> > > + msg_addr = virt_to_phys((__force const void *)port->base + PCIE_MSI_VECTOR);
> > > val = lower_32_bits(msg_addr);
> > > writel(val, port->base + PCIE_IMSI_ADDR);