Re: [RESEND PATCH RFC V4 0/3] Generate device tree node for pci devices

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:50:56PM -0800, Sonal Santan wrote:
> On 11/21/22 08:43, Lizhi Hou wrote:
> > This patch series introduces OF overlay support for PCI devices which
> > primarily addresses two use cases. First, it provides a data driven method
> > to describe hardware peripherals that are present in a PCI endpoint and
> > hence can be accessed by the PCI host. Second, it allows reuse of a OF
> > compatible driver -- often used in SoC platforms -- in a PCI host based
> > system.
> > 
> > There are 2 series devices rely on this patch:
> > 
> >   1) Xilinx Alveo Accelerator cards (FPGA based device)
> >   2) Microchip LAN9662 Ethernet Controller
> > 
> >      Please see: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220427094502.456111-1-clement.leger@bootlin.com/
> > 
> > Normally, the PCI core discovers PCI devices and their BARs using the
> > PCI enumeration process. However, the process does not provide a way to
> > discover the hardware peripherals that are present in a PCI device, and
> > which can be accessed through the PCI BARs. Also, the enumeration process
> > does not provide a way to associate MSI-X vectors of a PCI device with the
> > hardware peripherals that are present in the device. PCI device drivers
> > often use header files to describe the hardware peripherals and their
> > resources as there is no standard data driven way to do so. This patch
> > series proposes to use flattened device tree blob to describe the
> > peripherals in a data driven way. Based on previous discussion, using
> > device tree overlay is the best way to unflatten the blob and populate
> > platform devices. To use device tree overlay, there are three obvious
> > problems that need to be resolved.
> > 
> > First, we need to create a base tree for non-DT system such as x86_64. A
> > patch series has been submitted for this:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220624034327.2542112-1-frowand.list@gmail.com/
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220216050056.311496-1-lizhi.hou@xilinx.com/
> > 
> > Second, a device tree node corresponding to the PCI endpoint is required
> > for overlaying the flattened device tree blob for that PCI endpoint.
> > Because PCI is a self-discoverable bus, a device tree node is usually not
> > created for PCI devices. This series adds support to generate a device
> > tree node for a PCI device which advertises itself using PCI quirks
> > infrastructure.
> > 
> > Third, we need to generate device tree nodes for PCI bridges since a child
> > PCI endpoint may choose to have a device tree node created.
> > 
> > This patch series is made up of three patches.
> > 
> > The first patch is adding OF interface to create or destroy OF node
> > dynamically.
> > 
> > The second patch introduces a kernel option, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PCI_OF_NODEX.
> > When the option is turned on, the kernel will generate device tree nodes
> > for all PCI bridges unconditionally. The patch also shows how to use the
> > PCI quirks infrastructure, DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL to generate a device
> > tree node for a device. Specifically, the patch generates a device tree
> > node for Xilinx Alveo U50 PCIe accelerator device. The generated device
> > tree nodes do not have any property.
> > 
> > The third patch adds basic properties ('reg', 'compatible' and
> > 'device_type') to the dynamically generated device tree nodes. More
> > properties can be added in the future.
> > 
> > Here is the example of device tree nodes generated within the ARM64 QEMU.
> > # lspci -t    
> > -[0000:00]-+-00.0
> >            +-01.0-[01]--
> >            +-01.1-[02]----00.0
> >            +-01.2-[03]----00.0
> >            +-01.3-[04]----00.0
> >            +-01.4-[05]----00.0
> >            +-01.5-[06]--
> >            +-01.6-[07]--
> >            +-01.7-[08]--
> >            +-02.0-[09-0b]----00.0-[0a-0b]----00.0-[0b]--+-00.0
> >            |                                            \-00.1
> >            +-02.1-[0c]--
> >            \-03.0-[0d-0e]----00.0-[0e]----01.0
> > 
> > # tree /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/pcie\@10000000
> > /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/pcie@10000000
> > |-- #address-cells
> > |-- #interrupt-cells
> > |-- #size-cells
> > |-- bus-range
> > |-- compatible
> > |-- device_type
> > |-- dma-coherent
> > |-- interrupt-map
> > |-- interrupt-map-mask
> > |-- linux,pci-domain
> > |-- msi-parent
> > |-- name
> > |-- pci@1,0
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,1
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,2
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,3
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,4
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,5
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,6
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@1,7
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@2,0
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- pci@0,0
> > |   |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |   |-- compatible
> > |   |   |-- device_type
> > |   |   |-- pci@0,0
> > |   |   |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |   |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |   |   |-- compatible
> > |   |   |   |-- dev@0,0
> > |   |   |   |   |-- compatible
> > |   |   |   |   `-- reg
> > |   |   |   |-- dev@0,1
> > |   |   |   |   |-- compatible
> > |   |   |   |   `-- reg
> > |   |   |   |-- device_type
> > |   |   |   |-- ranges
> > |   |   |   `-- reg
> > |   |   |-- ranges
> > |   |   `-- reg
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@2,1
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- pci@3,0
> > |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |-- compatible
> > |   |-- device_type
> > |   |-- pci@0,0
> > |   |   |-- #address_cells
> > |   |   |-- #size_cells
> > |   |   |-- compatible
> > |   |   |-- device_type
> > |   |   |-- ranges
> > |   |   `-- reg
> > |   |-- ranges
> > |   `-- reg
> > |-- ranges
> > `-- reg
> > 
> > Changes since RFC v3:
> > - Split the Xilinx Alveo U50 PCI quirk to a separate patch
> > - Minor changes in commit description and code comment
> > 
> > Changes since RFC v2:
> > - Merged patch 3 with patch 2
> > - Added OF interfaces of_changeset_add_prop_* and use them to create
> >   properties.
> > - Added '#address-cells', '#size-cells' and 'ranges' properties.
> > 
> > Changes since RFC v1:
> > - Added one patch to create basic properties.
> > - To move DT related code out of PCI subsystem, replaced of_node_alloc()
> >   with of_create_node()/of_destroy_node()
> > 
> > Lizhi Hou (3):
> >   of: dynamic: Add interfaces for creating device node dynamically
> >   PCI: Create device tree node for selected devices
> >   PCI: Add PCI quirks to generate device tree node for Xilinx Alveo U50
> > 
> >  drivers/of/dynamic.c        | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/pci/Kconfig         |  12 ++
> >  drivers/pci/Makefile        |   1 +
> >  drivers/pci/bus.c           |   2 +
> >  drivers/pci/msi/irqdomain.c |   6 +-
> >  drivers/pci/of.c            |  71 ++++++++++
> >  drivers/pci/of_property.c   | 256 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c    |   3 +-
> >  drivers/pci/pci.h           |  19 +++
> >  drivers/pci/quirks.c        |  11 ++
> >  drivers/pci/remove.c        |   1 +
> >  include/linux/of.h          |  24 ++++
> >  12 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/pci/of_property.c
> > 
> Hello,
> 
> This RFC patch set has been patiently waiting for attention. If there
> are no additional comments can it move forward?

Note that "RFC" means "here's my patches I don't think are ready to be 
merged". That should have a list of issues/todo.

I'm not getting a good sense that possible issues are being thought 
about here. If I'm supposed to do that, then you'll just have to wait.

Rob