linux-kernel - Re: [Patch V1 0/6] Refine generic/PCI MSI irqodmian interfaces

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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:05:51 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
CC:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Patch V1 0/6] Refine generic/PCI MSI irqodmian interfaces

On 2014/11/13 20:55, Yijing Wang wrote:
> On 2014/11/13 20:39, Jiang Liu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2014/11/13 20:28, Yijing Wang wrote:
>>> On 2014/11/13 19:43, Jiang Liu wrote:
>>>> This patch set is based on tip/irq/irqdomain and tries to refine
>>>> interfaces to support irqdomain for generic MSI and PCI MSI.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 1 is just minor fixes for tip/irq/irqdomain.
>>>>
>>>> Patch 2 introduces some helpers to hide struct msi_desc implementation
>>>> details, so later we could move msi_list from struct pci_dev into
>>>> struct device to enable generic MSI support.
>>>
>>> Hi Gerry,
>>>    I tried to move msi info(eg. msi_list) into struct device, but I found
>>> DMAR fault interrupt is initialized before the driver core init. And I don't
>>> know whether there are other devices like ARM consolidator(introduced in GIC v3)
>>> need to be initialized before driver core. What do you think about this ?
>> Hi Yijing,
>> 	DMAR interrupt doesn't make use of msi_desc, so has no
>> dependency on msi_list.
> 
> OK, I thought we could use msi_desc to describe DMAR/HPET irq, so they could
> share the mask/unmask, write_msg/read_etc.. But maybe it's not a right direction. :)
And DMAR/HPET interrupts are not associated with any struct device
object, no way to build msi_desc list at all:)
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