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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt index 70558c3f3682..5d586e1ccaf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt @@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ Required properties: are routed to IPIC, and for 85xx/86xx cpu the interrupts are routed to MPIC. +Optional properties: +- msi-address-64: 64-bit PCI address of the MSIIR register. The MSIIR register + is used for MSI messaging. The address of MSIIR in PCI address space is + the MSI message address. + + This property may be used in virtualized environments where the hypervisor + has created an alternate mapping for the MSIR block. See below for an + explanation. + + Example: msi@41600 { compatible = "fsl,mpc8610-msi", "fsl,mpic-msi"; @@ -41,3 +51,35 @@ Example: 0xe7 0>; interrupt-parent = <&mpic>; }; + +The Freescale hypervisor and msi-address-64 +------------------------------------------- +Normally, PCI devices have access to all of CCSR via an ATMU mapping. The +Freescale MSI driver calculates the address of MSIIR (in the MSI register +block) and sets that address as the MSI message address. + +In a virtualized environment, the hypervisor may need to create an IOMMU +mapping for MSIIR. The Freescale ePAPR hypervisor has this requirement +because of hardware limitations of the Peripheral Access Management Unit +(PAMU), which is currently the only IOMMU that the hypervisor supports. +The ATMU is programmed with the guest physical address, and the PAMU +intercepts transactions and reroutes them to the true physical address. + +In the PAMU, each PCI controller is given only one primary window. The +PAMU restricts DMA operations so that they can only occur within a window. +Because PCI devices must be able to DMA to memory, the primary window must +be used to cover all of the guest's memory space. + +PAMU primary windows can be divided into 256 subwindows, and each +subwindow can have its own address mapping ("guest physical" to "true +physical"). However, each subwindow has to have the same alignment, which +means they cannot be located at just any address. Because of these +restrictions, it is usually impossible to create a 4KB subwindow that +covers MSIIR where it's normally located. + +Therefore, the hypervisor has to create a subwindow inside the same +primary window used for memory, but mapped to the MSIR block (where MSIIR +lives). The first subwindow after the end of guest memory is used for +this. The address specified in the msi-address-64 property is the PCI +address of MSIIR. The hypervisor configures the PAMU to map that address to +the true physical address of MSIIR. |
