Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports

On Wednesday 23 December 2015 17:04:40 Santosh Shukla wrote:

On 23 December 2015 at 03:26, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tuesday 22 December 2015, Santosh Shukla wrote:

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So I care for /dev/ioport types interface who could do more than byte
data copy to/from user-space. I tested this patch with little
modification and could able to run pmd driver for arm/arm64 case.

Like to know how to address pci_io region mapping problem for
arm/arm64, in-case /dev/ioports approach is not acceptable or else I
can spent time on restructuring the patch?

For the use case you describe, can't you use the vfio framework to
access the PCI BARs?

I looked at file: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c, func vfio_pci_map() and
it look to me that it only maps ioresource_mem pci region, pasting
code snap:

if (!(pci_resource_flags(pdev, index) & IORESOURCE_MEM))
return -EINVAL;
....

and I want to map ioresource_io pci region for arm platform in my
use-case. Not sure vfio maps pci_iobar region?

Mapping I/O BARs is not portable, notably it doesn't work on x86.

You should be able access them using the read/write interface on
the vfio device.

	Arnd