Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:57:50AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> Greg KH writes:
>> 
>> > Ok, sorry, it wasn't blindingly obvious that this was for pci sysfs
>> > devices that are mmaped, that makes a bit more sense.
>> > 
>> > But I'd like to see what ioctl is wanted here first.
>> 
>> I believe the ioctl would be to set whether the mapping goes to I/O or
>> memory space, 
>
> x86 cannot really access IO space through mmap so no that wasn't planned

0000_00FD_FC00_0000h - 0000_00FD_FDFF_FFFFh On a hypertransport based
system should work.  There is a 32MB window for it.

However the I/O vs mem distinction doesn't matter anyway if we start out
per bar because we already know if it is I/O or mem.

> The main planned use was to get the translated bus address (after IOMMU)
> for a mapping and to set the caching modes.
>
>> So the alternative to the ioctl would be to have multiple files in
>> sysfs, one per combination of modes -- i.e., 4 files, or 3 if we
>> exclude the "I/O with write combining" mode, which would be
>> reasonable.
>
> At least for the IOMMU translation case that wouldn't work.

Well the other alternative looks like having a second file per par
bar.  Say resource0_wc to support the write-combining mode, possibly
restricted to just prefetchable bars.

If that is all we have to worry about my inclination is to suggest
a second file, because that feels a bit more generally useable.  As
that attribute could be applied to ordinary reads and writes to and
from the bar.

Eric