linux-kernel - Re: [RFT Part2 v2 00/24] Enable hierarchy irqdomian on x86 platforms

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:30:30 -0500
From:	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<x86@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT Part2 v2 00/24] Enable hierarchy irqdomian on x86 platforms

On 9/26/2014 9:29 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:02:01PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> We plan to restructure x86 interrupt code based on hierarchy irqdomain,
>> that is to build irqdomains for CPU vector, interrupt remapping unit,
>> IOAPIC, MSI and HPET etc and organize those irqdomains in hierarchy mode.
>> Each irqdomain manages corresponding interrupt controller and talks to
>> parent interrupt controller through public irqdomain interfaces. We also
>> support stacked irq_chip based on hierarchy irqdomain. It will make the
>> x86 interrupt architecture much more clear and more easy to maintain
>> with hierarchy irqdomain and stacked irq_chip. It may also help ARM
>> interrupt management architecture too.
>>
>> This is the second patch set to enable support of hierarchy irqdomain
>> on x86 platforms. It depends on the first part at:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/26/501
>> And you may access it at:
>> https://github.com/jiangliu/linux.git irqdomain/p2v2
>>
>> And there will be a third patch set to convert IOAPIC driver to support
>> hierarchy irqdomain and clean up code.
>>
>> The first patch extends irqdomain interfaces to support hierarchy
>> irqdomain. Hope this interface could be used by other architectures too,
>> such as ARM/ARM64.
>> The second patch introduces two helper functions to support stacked
>> irq_chip.
>> Patch 3-9 implements an irqdomain to manange CPU interrupt vectors, and
>> it's the root irqdomain for x86 platforms.
>> Patch 10-13 converts Intel and AMD interrupt remapping drivers to
>> support hierarchy irqdomain.
>> Patch 14-16 converts HPET and MSI to support hierarchy irqdomain.
>> Patch 17-20 cleans up unsued code in x86 arch and interrupt remapping
>> drivers.
>> Patch 21-24 converts DMAR, HTIRQ and UV to support hierarchy irqdomain.
>>
>> We have tested this patchset on Intel 32-bit and 64-bit systems. And it
>> also passes Fengguang's 0day tests. But helps are need for testing:
>> 1) AMD interrupt remapping
>> 2) AMD HT_IRQ
> Adding Aravind.
>
> @Aravind: you might want to give that patchset a run just in case, to
> make sure it doesn't break anything on AMD. You'll need the previous
> patchset to go before too, though:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411738196-29958-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com

Sure, Will help testing these.

> I'm sure Jiang will help you if you have more questions.
>
>

Okay, I shall start looking into the patches and RFH as needed.

-Aravind.
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