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

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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:16:08 +0000
From:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Yijing Wang <wangyijing0307@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch V1 0/6] Refine generic/PCI MSI irqodmian interfaces

On 14/11/14 14:26, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 2014/11/14 22:11, Yijing Wang wrote:
>>
>> 在 2014/11/14 9:39, Jiang Liu 写道:
>>> On 2014/11/14 9:31, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Yijing Wang wrote:
>>>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>     So we need something like:
>>> struct msi_chip *pci_get_msi_chip(struct pci_dev *);
>>> or:
>>> struct irq_domain *pci_get_msi_domain(struct pci_dev *);
>>
>> Hi Gerry,
>> what about associate the platform specific  struct msi_chip
>> *pci_get_msi_chip(struct pci_dev *)
>> with struct pci_host_bridge. we could provide the private
>> "pci_get_msi_chip()" in the PCI
>> host drivers.
> Hi Yijing,
> 	Still need some time to dig into msi_chip related code.
> When refining the PCI MSI code, I feel the best way is:
> 1) Every PCI device is associated with an PCI MSI irqdomain.
> 2) PCI MSI core directly talks to irqdomain to allocate/free
>    interrupts.
> 3) Kill all weak functions in pci/drivers/msi.c.
> 4) Kill struct msi_chip.
> 
> We have achieved 1 and 2. And seems we could also achieve 3 by
> converting all arch specific PCI MSI code to use hierarchy
> irqdomain. But not sure whether we could achieve 4, not familiar
> with ARM world:)

Killing all the weak functions shouldn't be a problem for ARM, we're
trying very hard not to rely on them.

Killing msi_chip is a different story, as this is what we use to match a
PCI host controller with its MSI controller (that's what the of_node
field in msi_chip is for). See drivers/of/of_pci.c for details.

Also, we use msi_chip directly in the MSI drivers as a way to go from a
pci_dev to the MSI controller specific structure:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/tree/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c?h=irq/stacked-its-v2#n1143

If we're going to kill msi_chip, we must make sure we have mechanisms
that allow the conversion of the existing code.

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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