RE: [PATCH v6 02/11] arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_PCIE_RCAR_HOST

[Prabhakar Mahadev Lad <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>]

Hi Shimoda-san/Geert-san,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
> Sent: 03 April 2020 10:05
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 02/11] arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_PCIE_RCAR_HOST
>
> Hi Geert-san,
>
> Thank you for your comments!
>
> > From: Geert Uytterhoeven, Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 5:28 PM
> <snip>
> > > But, I'm thinking this patch (and patch 03/11) should be separated
> > > from this patch series for arm64 subsystem to ease maintenance.
> > > My scenario is:
> > >  1) patch series 1: R-Car PCIe endpoint support.
> > >  -- This means: patch 1, 4 - 9, 11
> > >
> > >  2) After the patch series 1 is merged, submit this patch 2/11 to arm subsystem
> > >    and submit the patch 10/11 to misc subsystem.
> > >
> > >  3) At last, submit patch 3/11 after the patch 2/11 is merged.
> > >
> > > Geert-san, what do you think?
> >
> > Thanks, I agree with your summary.
> >
> > I can take patch 2/11 through renesas-devel.
> > Probably it's best if I submit it to arm-soc as a fix for v5.8, after
> > the driver part
> > has been merged into v5.8-rc1, so 3/11 can be submitted for v5.9.
>
> Thank you! I got it.
>
Thank you, Ill split the patches accordingly and post a v7.

> > BTW, I'm wondering about "[PATCH v6 05/11] PCI: rcar: Fix calculating
> > mask for PCIEPAMR register". Can the issue fixed by this patch happen with
> > the current driver in host mode, or is that limited to ep mode?
> > In case of the former, please submit it to the PCI maintainer as a separate
> > fix.
>
> Thank you for pointed it out. I think this is the case of the former.
> IIUC, if such a small window PCIe device exists, the issue happens.
>
> Prabhakar-san, is my understanding correct?
>
This issue will only be hit on EP, when in host mode the sizes will be fixed to 1 Mbytes /2 Mbytes /128 Mbytes

Cheers,
--Prabhakar

> Best regards,
> Yoshihiro Shimoda



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