From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:27:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd9310ab-6012-a410-2bfc-a2f8dd8d62f9@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0dnXX7Cx_kJ_yLAoQFCxoM488Ze-L+5v1m0YeyjF4zqw@mail.gmail.com>
On 17/12/2021 14:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I was interesting in the IOPORT_NATIVE flag (or whatever we call it) as
>> it solves the problem of drivers which "unconditionally do inb()/outb()
>> without checking the validity of the address using firmware or other
>> methods first" being built for (and loaded on and crashing) unsuitable
>> systems. Such a problem is in [0]
>>
>> So if we want to support that later, then it seems that someone would
>> need to go back and re-edit many same driver Kconfigs – like hwmon, for
>> example. I think it's better to avoid that and do it now.
>>
>> Arnd, any opinion on that?
>>
>> I'm happy to help with that effort.
> I looked at the options the other day and couldn't really find any that
> fell into this category, so I suggested that Niklas would skip that for the
> moment.
From looking at the patch Niklas directed us at, as I understand,
HAS_IOPORT is to decide whether the arch/platform may support PIO
accessors - inb et al. And on that basis I am confused why it is not
selected for arm64. And further compounded by:
config INDIRECT_PIO
bool "Access I/O in non-MMIO mode"
depends on ARM64
+ depends on HAS_IOPORT
If arm64 does not select, then why depend on it?
> If you have a better way of finding the affected drivers,
> that would be great.
Assuming arm64 should select HAS_IOPORT, I am talking about f71805f as
an example. According to that patch, this driver additionally depends on
HAS_IOPORT; however I would rather arm64, like powerpc, should not allow
that driver to be built at all.
Thanks,
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-17 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-02 13:47 [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-02 13:49 ` [GIT PULL 2/2] asm-generic: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-02 20:13 ` pr-tracker-bot
2021-07-02 19:42 ` [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access Linus Torvalds
2021-07-03 12:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-05 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 9:46 ` John Garry
2021-08-03 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 11:23 ` John Garry
2021-08-03 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-04 7:55 ` John Garry
2021-08-04 8:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-10 9:19 ` John Garry
2021-08-10 11:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-03 8:31 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-17 13:19 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-17 13:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 13:52 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-17 14:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 14:27 ` John Garry
2021-12-17 14:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 15:27 ` John Garry [this message]
2021-12-17 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 16:30 ` John Garry
2021-12-20 9:27 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-21 16:48 ` John Garry
2021-12-21 16:57 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-19 14:23 ` David Laight
2021-12-21 16:21 ` John Garry
2021-07-05 12:40 ` Niklas Schnelle
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