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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 09/18] PCI: dwc: Discard IP-core version checking on unrolled iATU detection
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:25:25AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> It's pretty much pointless. Even though unrolled version of the internal
> ATU has been indeed available since DWC PCIe v4.80a IP-core, there is no
> guarantee it was enabled during the IP-core configuration (Synopsys
> suggests to contact the Solvnet support for guidance of how to do that for
> the newer IP-cores). So the only reliable way to find out the unrolled
> iATU feature availability is indeed to check the iATU viewport register
> content. In accordance with the reference manual [1] if the register
> doesn't exist (unrolled iATU is enabled) it's content is fixed with
> 0xff-s, otherwise it will contain some zeros. So we can freely drop the
> IP-core version checking in this matter then and use the
> dw_pcie_iatu_unroll_enabled() method only to detect whether iATU/eDMA
> space is unrolled.

Are you sure that pre v4.80a, it is safe to read the register address?
Seems unlikely that the all 1s guarantee would be valid before the
feature ever existed.


> [1] DesignWare Cores, PCI Express Controller, Register Desciptions,
> v.4.90a, December 2016, p.855
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.c | 11 +++++------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Assuming this works,

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

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