On 29 January 2015 at 14:31, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 27.01.15 17:52, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 21 January 2015 at 16:18, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote:
>>> +    /* Map the MMIO window at the same spot in bus and cpu layouts */
>>> +    mmio_alias = g_new0(MemoryRegion, 1);
>>> +    mmio_reg = sysbus_mmio_get_region(SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev), 1);
>>> +    memory_region_init_alias(mmio_alias, OBJECT(dev), "pcie-mmio",
>>> +                             mmio_reg, base_mmio, size_mmio);
>>> +    memory_region_add_subregion(get_system_memory(), base_mmio, 
>>> mmio_alias);
>>
>> The comment claims to be mapping the MMIO window twice (in the
>> system memory space and in the PCI mmio address space) but the
>> code only seems to be mapping something into system memory space?
>
> The comment claims to map it at the same spot. It means the offset in
> system memory is the same offset as the one in the mmio window that gets
> exported by the PHB.
>
> The PHB exports a UINT64_MAX MMIO region as id 1. This is basically a
> full window into the PCI address space. What we do here is to map a 1:1
> window between CPU address space and PCI address space.

I kind of see, but isn't this just a window from CPU address
space into PCI address space, not vice-versa?

DMA by PCI devices bus-mastering into system memory must be
being set up elsewhere, I think.

-- PMM

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