linux-kernel - Re: [Bugfix] x86, irq: Fix bug in setting IOAPIC pin attributes

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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:20:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	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>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.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>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugfix] x86, irq: Fix bug in setting IOAPIC pin attributes

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Mika Westerberg wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 04:45:01PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> > On startup, IOAPIC driver preallocates IRQ descriptors and programs
> > IOAPIC pins with default level and polarity attributes for all legacy
> > IRQs. Later legacy IRQ users may fail to set IOAPIC pin attributes
> > if the requested attributes conflicts with the default IOAPIC pin
> > attributes. So change mp_irqdomain_map() to allow the first legacy IRQ
> > user to reprogram IOAPIC pin with different attributes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> I tried this and now we get further in setting up the IOAPIC but it
> still doesn't work :-(
> 
> I noticed that mp_set_gsi_attr() never programs the IOAPIC in case
> info->set is 0 so I added following on top of your patch. With the below
> patch, the system seems to work as expected.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> index 66c2700c9f83..777762a0ad09 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> @@ -3942,10 +3942,16 @@ int mp_set_gsi_attr(u32 gsi, int trigger, int polarity, int node)
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&ioapic_mutex);
>  	if (!info->set) {
> +		struct io_apic_irq_attr attr;
> +
>  		info->trigger = trigger;
>  		info->polarity = polarity;
>  		info->node = node;
>  		info->set = 1;
> +
> +		/* Now program the IOAPIC with the new attributes */
> +		set_io_apic_irq_attr(&attr, ioapic, pin, trigger, polarity);
> +		ret = io_apic_setup_irq_pin(gsi, node, &attr);
>  	} else if (info->trigger != trigger || info->polarity != polarity) {
>  		ret = -EBUSY;
>  	}

Can someone please combine this into a single patch with a proper
changelog?

Thanks,

	tglx

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