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Re: [PATCH v3 21/32] powerpc: include default ioremap_nopost() implementation

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On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 13:29 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> The PCI specifications (Rev 3.0, 3.2.5 "Transaction Ordering and Posting")
> mandate non-posted configuration transactions. As further highlighted in
> the PCIe specifications (4.0 - Rev0.3, "Ordering Considerations for the
> Enhanced Configuration Access Mechanism"), through ECAM and
> ECAM-derivative configuration mechanism, the memory mapped transactions
> from the host CPU into Configuration Requests on the PCI express fabric
> may create ordering problems for software because writes to memory
> address are typically posted transactions (unless the architecture can
> enforce through virtual address mapping non-posted write transactions
> behaviour) but writes to Configuration Space are not posted on the PCI
> express fabric.
> 
> Include the asm-generic ioremap_nopost() implementation (currently
> falling back to ioremap_nocache()) to provide a non-posted writes
> ioremap interface to kernel subsystems.

NAK. As explained in my reply to patch 0.

> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
> index 5ed2924..6dcd0e2 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ extern void __iomem *ioremap_prot(phys_addr_t address, unsigned long size,
>  extern void __iomem *ioremap_wc(phys_addr_t address, unsigned long size);
> >  #define ioremap_nocache(addr, size)	ioremap((addr), (size))
> >  #define ioremap_uc(addr, size)		ioremap((addr), (size))
> +#include <asm-generic/ioremap-nopost.h>
>  
>  extern void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr);
>  

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[PATCH v3 21/32] powerpc: include default ioremap_nopost() implementation Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> - 2017-04-11 14:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 21/32] powerpc: include default ioremap_nopost()  implementation Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2017-04-11 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 21/32] powerpc: include default ioremap_nopost()  implementation Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> - 2017-04-11 16:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 21/32] powerpc: include default ioremap_nopost()  implementation Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2017-04-12 01:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 21/32] powerpc: include default ioremap_nopost() implementation Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-04-13 05:40 +0200

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