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Message-ID: <b63b1d787c91024d1e49a4fd430ed29d@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:30:41 -0500
From:   Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@...eaurora.org>
To:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, rjw@...ysocki.net,
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        astone@...hat.com, graeme.gregory@...aro.org, guohanjun@...wei.com,
        charles.garcia-tobin@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V9 1/3] ACPI: Generic GSI: Do not attempt to map non-GSI
 IRQs during bus scan

Hi Lorenzo,

On 2016-12-16 11:24, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 05:10:36PM -0500, Agustin Vega-Frias wrote:
>> ACPI extended IRQ resources may contain a Resource Source field to 
>> specify
>> an alternate interrupt controller, attempting to map them as GSIs is
>> incorrect, so just disable the platform resource.
>> 
>> Since this field is currently ignored, we make this change conditional
>> on CONFIG_ACPI_GENERIC_GSI to keep the current behavior on x86 
>> platforms,
>> in case some existing ACPI tables are using this incorrectly.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/resource.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resource.c b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
>> index 56241eb..76ca4e9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/resource.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/resource.c
>> @@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ static inline bool 
>> acpi_iospace_resource_valid(struct resource *res)
>>  acpi_iospace_resource_valid(struct resource *res) { return true; }
>>  #endif
>> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_GENERIC_GSI
>> +static inline bool is_gsi(struct acpi_resource_extended_irq *ext_irq)
>> +{
>> +	return ext_irq->resource_source.string_length == 0;
>> +}
>> +#else
>> +static inline bool is_gsi(struct acpi_resource_extended_irq *ext_irq)
>> +{
>> +	return true;
>> +}
>> +#endif
> 
> Well, patch is simple there is not much to say other that on the
> firmware side I honestly do not see many options, either we remove the
> ifdeffery above and make the check unconditional (ie we do check on
> x86/ia64 too instead of always returning true) and see if things hold 
> up
> on x86 (at least we try) or we will never know and will never be able 
> to
> use this on x86 if there will ever be need.
> 
> It would be certainly weird to find out that a descriptor has a
> resource_source pointer put there by mistake (because that's what we 
> are
> talking about, things work on x86/ia64 by ignoring the resource_source
> pointer so any string there is just an unfortunate mistake AFAICS).
> 
> I am quite tempted to remove the ifdef and make the is_gsi() check 
> effective on
> x86/ia64 too.

I wouldn't be opposed to that. I added the #ifdef out of abundance of 
caution,
but if the x86 folks agree and we can get sufficient testing to ensure 
this
doesn't break anything I'd like to remove it too.

Thanks,
Agustin

> 
> Lorenzo
> 
>> +
>>  static bool acpi_dev_resource_len_valid(u64 start, u64 end, u64 len, 
>> bool io)
>>  {
>>  	u64 reslen = end - start + 1;
>> @@ -470,9 +482,12 @@ bool acpi_dev_resource_interrupt(struct 
>> acpi_resource *ares, int index,
>>  			acpi_dev_irqresource_disabled(res, 0);
>>  			return false;
>>  		}
>> -		acpi_dev_get_irqresource(res, ext_irq->interrupts[index],
>> +		if (is_gsi(ext_irq))
>> +			acpi_dev_get_irqresource(res, ext_irq->interrupts[index],
>>  					 ext_irq->triggering, ext_irq->polarity,
>>  					 ext_irq->sharable, false);
>> +		else
>> +			acpi_dev_irqresource_disabled(res, 0);
>>  		break;
>>  	default:
>>  		res->flags = 0;
>> --
>> Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. on behalf of the Qualcomm 
>> Technologies, Inc.
>> Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a 
>> Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
>> 

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Technologies, Inc.
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Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.