From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
'Mason' <slash.tmp@free.fr>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Thibaud Cornic <thibaud_cornic@sigmadesigns.com>,
Phuong Nguyen <phuong_nguyen@sigmadesigns.com>,
Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
Subject: Re: Neophyte questions about PCIe
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:01:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d908b221-a557-41fe-2d7c-3e1c7e2fbac4@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DCFE7A70A@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Hi,
On 03/08/2017 07:54 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Mason
>> Sent: 07 March 2017 22:45
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been working with the Linux PCIe framework for a few weeks,
>> and there are still a few things that remain unclear to me.
>> I thought I'd group them in a single message.
>>
>> 1) If I understand correctly, PCI defines 3 types of (address?) "spaces"
>> - configuration
>> - memory
>> - I/O
>>
>> I think PCI has its roots in x86, where there are separate
>> instructions for I/O accesses and memory accesses (with MMIO
>> sitting somewhere in the middle). I'm on ARMv7 which doesn't
>> have I/O instructions AFAIK. I'm not sure what the I/O address
>> space is used for in PCIe, especially since I was told that
>> one may map I/O-type registers (in my understanding, registers
>> for which accesses cause side effects) within mem space.
>
> There isn't much difference between a memory BAR and an IO BAR.
> Both are used for accesses to device registers.
> There are subtle differences in the PCIe TLPs (I think io writes
> get a completion TLP).
> Memory space (maybe only 64bit address??) can be 'pre-fetchable'
> but generally the driver maps everything uncachable.
>
>
>> 2) On my platform, there are two revisions of the PCIe controller.
>> Rev1 muxes config and mem inside a 256 MB window, and doesn't support
>> I/O space.
>> Rev2 muxes all 3 spaces inside a 256 MB window.
>
> Don't think config space fits.
> With the 'obvious' mapping the 'bus number' is in the top
> 8 bits of the address.
> IIRC x86 uses two 32bit addresses for config space.
> One is used to hold the 'address' for the cycle, the other
> to perform the cycle.
>
>> Ard has stated that this model is not supported by Linux.
>> AFAIU, the reason is that accesses may occur concurrently
>> (especially on SMP systems). Thus tweaking a bit before
>> the actual access necessarily creates a race condition.
>>
>> I wondered if there might be (reasonable) software
>> work-arounds, in your experience?
>
> Remember some drivers let applications mmap PCIe addresses
> directly into the user page tables.
> So you have to stop absolutely everything if you change
> your mux.
>
>> 3) What happens if a device requires more than 256 MB of
>> mem space? (Is that common? What kind of device? GPUs?)
>> Our controller supports a remapping "facility" to add an
>> offset to the bus address. Is such a feature supported
>> by Linux at all? The problem is that this creates
>> another race condition, as setting the offset register
>> before an access may occur concurrently on two cores.
>> Perhaps 256 MB is plenty on a 32-bit embedded device?
>
> GPUs tend to have their own paging scheme.
> So don't need humongous windows.
> I'm not sure how much space is really needed.
The server class (tesla/etc) GPU's use 64-bit BAR's for a while and in
the case of something like the K80 require two 16G mappings per board.
(see the comment at the bottom of this link)
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/865872/driver-installing-problem-for-nvidia-tesla-k80-under-linux/
> 32bit x86 reserve the top 1GB of physical address for PCI(e).
>
>> 4) The HW dev is considering the following fix.
>> Instead of muxing the address spaces, provide smaller
>> exclusive spaces. For example
>> [0x5000_0000, 0x5400_0000] for config (64MB)
>> [0x5400_0000, 0x5800_0000] for I/O (64MB)
>> [0x5800_0000, 0x6000_0000] for mem (128MB)
>
> You almost certainly don't need more than 64k of IO.
>
>> That way, bits 26:27 implicitly select the address space
>> 00 = config
>> 01 = I/O
>> 1x = mem
>>
>> This would be more in line with what Linux expects, right?
>> Are these sizes acceptable? 64 MB config is probably overkill
>> (we'll never have 64 devices on this board). 64 MB for I/O
>> is probably plenty. The issue might be mem space?
>
> Config space isn't dense, you (probably) need 25 bits to get a 2nd bus number.
> Even 256MB constrains you to 16 bus numbers.
>
> Is this an ARM cpu inside an altera (now intel) fpga??
> There is a nasty bug in their PCIe to avalon bridge logic (fixed in quartus 16.1).
>
> David
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-09 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-07 22:45 Neophyte questions about PCIe Mason
2017-03-08 13:39 ` Mason
2017-03-08 13:54 ` David Laight
2017-03-08 14:17 ` Mason
2017-03-08 14:38 ` David Laight
2017-03-09 22:01 ` Jeremy Linton [this message]
2017-03-08 15:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-03-09 23:43 ` Mason
2017-03-10 13:15 ` Robin Murphy
2017-03-10 14:06 ` David Laight
2017-03-10 15:05 ` Mason
2017-03-10 15:14 ` David Laight
2017-03-10 15:33 ` Mason
2017-03-10 15:23 ` Robin Murphy
2017-03-10 15:35 ` David Laight
2017-03-10 16:00 ` Robin Murphy
2017-03-13 10:59 ` Mason
2017-03-13 11:56 ` Robin Murphy
2017-03-10 18:49 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-03-10 14:53 ` Mason
2017-03-10 16:45 ` Mason
2017-03-10 17:49 ` Mason
2017-03-11 10:57 ` Mason
2017-03-13 21:40 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-03-13 21:57 ` Mason
2017-03-13 22:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-03-14 10:23 ` David Laight
2017-03-14 12:05 ` Mason
2017-03-14 12:24 ` David Laight
2017-03-13 14:25 ` Mason
2017-03-14 14:00 ` Mason
2017-03-14 15:54 ` Mason
2017-03-14 21:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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