linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/14] PCI: tegra: Move PCIe driver to drivers/pci/host

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:36:40 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] PCI: tegra: Move PCIe driver to drivers/pci/host

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 04:45:16PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:36:14PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 11 January 2013, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > Right, it'll need #ifdefs around the arch_{setup,teardown}_msi_irq(). Or
> > > select PCI_MSI unconditionally. Once this is merged I was going to post
> > > a patch that enables PCI_MSI in tegra_defconfig anyway. But it might be
> > > better to keep it optional anyway since the remainder of the code copes
> > > with it properly.
> > > 
> > Actually, we need something better than that. You cannot define
> > arch_setup_msi_irq in a tegra specific pci host driver, because that
> > will seriously mess up other platforms in multiplatform configurations
> > by giving a link error when they also define this function, or with a
> > run-time error when they don't support it.
> > 
> > I think what we should do here is fix it the right way by adding
> > a pci host specific callback rather than an architecture specific
> > callback in drivers/pci/msi.c. There is already a default version
> > of arch_setup_msi_irqs (with s), and we can probably do the
> > same for arch_setup_msi_irq (without s) to fall back to the
> > arch version for most architectures.
> > Most architectures (at least powerpc, sparc, ia64 and x86) already
> > multiplex the msi handlers internally, but ARM does not because
> > there is only one implementation (iop33x) at the moment.
> > 
> > We can add a generix multiplex and then move architectures over to
> > use it.
> 
> I already hinted at that in one of the other subthreads. Having such a
> multiplex would also allow the driver to be built as a module. I had
> already thought about this when I was working on an earlier version of
> these patches. Basically these would be two ops attached to the host
> bridge, and the generic arch_setup_msi_irq() could then look that up
> given the struct pci_dev that is passed to it and call this new per-
> host bridge .setup_msi_irq().

struct pci_ops looks like a good place to put these. They'll be
available from each struct pci_bus, so should be easy to call from
arch_setup_msi_irq().

Any objections?

Thierry

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