linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] PCI: xilinx: Modifying AXI PCIe Host Bridge driver to work on both Zynq and Microblaze

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Message-ID: <20160128144944.GA12690@red-moon>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:49:45 +0000
From:	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada@...inx.com>,
	"bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Michal Simek <michals@...inx.com>,
	"paul.burton@...tec.com" <paul.burton@...tec.com>,
	"yinghai@...nel.org" <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"wangyijing@...wei.com" <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	"robh@...nel.org" <robh@...nel.org>,
	"russell.joyce@...k.ac.uk" <russell.joyce@...k.ac.uk>,
	Soren Brinkmann <sorenb@...inx.com>,
	"jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com" <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	"pawel.moll@....com" <pawel.moll@....com>,
	"mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk" <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	"galak@...eaurora.org" <galak@...eaurora.org>,
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	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ravikiran Gummaluri <rgummal@...inx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] PCI: xilinx: Modifying AXI PCIe Host Bridge
 driver to  work on both  Zynq and Microblaze

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 03:23:37PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 28 January 2016 14:18:15 Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> > > 
> > > I see. In the upstream code you seem to do it in
> > > pcibios_setup_bus_devices(), while arm64 and powerpc do it in
> > > pcibios_add_device().
> > > 
> > No that function is not getting called with generic API's, its getting called with pcibios_init flow which is tightly bound with struct pci_controller microblaze specific structure. So I added pcibios_add_device in pci-common.c.
> 
> Ok
> 
> > > > May be we can add similar on arm and test out, but we might need some
> > > > cleanup in arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c
> > > 
> > > I think that would still just be a half-baked solution. This should really be fully
> > > automatic. We could do it in the __weak
> > > pcibios_add_device() for all architectures that don't override it when the bus
> > > was probed from DT, or we could do it in pci_read_irq().
> > When will pci_read_irq() call get invoked ?
> 
> This is called early on when a device gets created in pci_setup_device(),
> so platforms can still override the value later.
> 
> The idea here is that normally a BIOS stores the interrupt number in
> the PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE config space byte, and we just read it from
> there. Generally speaking though, for non-PC systems we tend to not
> have a BIOS that writes these values to start with, and any values
> stored in here have no meaning in combination with SPARSE_IRQ
> and/or IRQ_DOMAINS because the bootloader or BIOS doesn't know
> what IRQ number will refer to hardware IRQ line in Linux.

I think the best way to handle this is through Matthew's series (below),
in the interim a callback in arch code would do, we will clean it up when
Matthew's series goes upstream, it should not take too long.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg45950.html

Thanks,
Lorenzo