Your last step I have coded up but not tested yet. I will get that done today.




Thanks,
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim Van Sebroeck [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:50 AM
To: Mingarelli, Thomas; Linus Torvalds
Cc: Maxim Uvarov; [email protected]; [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpwdt: clean up set_memory_x call for 32 bit

Hi Tom,

> So I don't know who is supposed to be handling this (Wim?), but the
> patch itself looks suspicious.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Maxim Uvarov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > -       set_memory_x((unsigned long)bios32_entrypoint, (2 * PAGE_SIZE));
> > +       set_memory_x((unsigned long)bios32_entrypoint & PAGE_MASK, 2);
> 
> If it wasn't page-aligned to begin with, then maybe it needs three pages now?

I have been looking at the code again and basically we have for 32 bit the 
following sequence:
1) scan/search from 0x0f0000 through 0x0fffff, inclusive (in steps of 16 bytes) 
until we find
the 32-bit BIOS Service Directory with signature == PCI_BIOS32_SD_VALUE 
(=0x5F32335F ="_32_").
2) If we find this area then we first do a checksum check to see if it's a 
valid area.
3) if it's a valid area then we will check this area for a $CRU record.

the code for this is as follows:
        /*
         * According to the spec, we're looking for the
         * first 4KB-aligned address below the entrypoint
         * listed in the header. The Service Directory code
         * is guaranteed to occupy no more than 2 4KB pages.
         */
        map_entry = bios_32_ptr->entry_point & ~(PAGE_SIZE - 1);
        map_offset = bios_32_ptr->entry_point - map_entry;

        bios32_map = ioremap(map_entry, (2 * PAGE_SIZE));

        if (bios32_map == NULL)
                return -ENODEV;

        bios32_entrypoint = bios32_map + map_offset;

        cmn_regs.u1.reax = CRU_BIOS_SIGNATURE_VALUE;

        set_memory_x((unsigned long)bios32_entrypoint, (2 * PAGE_SIZE));
        asminline_call(&cmn_regs, bios32_entrypoint);

=> So if I understand it correctly then map_entry is page aligned. And thus 
bios32_map is also page aligned.
Wouldn't it then not make more sense to do a:
        set_memory_x((unsigned long)bios32_map, 2);

> > -                               set_memory_x((unsigned long)cru_rom_addr, 
> > cru_length);
> > +                               set_memory_x((unsigned long)cru_rom_addr & 
> > PAGE_MASK, cru_length >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> 
> Same here. If we align the start address down, we should fix up the
> length. And should we not align the number of pages up?
> 
> In general, a "start/length" conversion to a "page/nr" model needs to be 
> roughly
> 
>    len += start & ~PAGE_MASK;
>    start &= PAGE_MASK;
>    nr_pages = (len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> 
> to do things right. But I don't know where those magic numbers come
> from. Maybe the "2" is already due to the code possibly traversing a
> page boundary, and has already been fixed up. Somebody who knows the
> driver and the requirements should take a look at this.

4) if we then found the $CRU record then we do:
        physical_bios_base = cmn_regs.u2.rebx;
        physical_bios_offset = cmn_regs.u4.redx;
        cru_length = cmn_regs.u3.recx;
        cru_physical_address = physical_bios_base + physical_bios_offset;

        /* If the values look OK, then map it in. */
        if (cru_physical_address) {
                cru_rom_addr = ioremap(cru_physical_address, cru_length);
                if (cru_rom_addr) {
                        set_memory_x((unsigned long)cru_rom_addr, cru_length);
                        retval = 0;
                }
        }

=> Which means that cru_physical_address and cru_rom_addr are not page-aligned.
So if we follow the conversion model that Linus described we get:
        set_memory_x((unsigned long)cru_rom_addr & PAGE_MASK,
                        (cru_length + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);

Can you check this?

Kind regards,
Wim.

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