linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/MSI: Improve MSI alias detection

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Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2017 10:55:52 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, helgaas@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        david.daney@...ium.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/MSI: Improve MSI alias detection

On 01/08/17 18:59, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Currently, we handle all DMA aliases equally when calculating MSI
> requester IDs for the generic infrastructure. This turns out to be the
> wrong thing to do in the face of pure DMA quirks like those of Marvell
> SATA cards, where in the usual case the last thing seen in the alias
> walk is the DMA phantom function: we end up configuring the MSI
> doorbell to expect that alias, then find we have no interrupts since
> the MSI writes still come from the 'real' RID, thus get filtered out
> and ignored.
> 
> Improve the alias walk to only account for the topological aliases that
> matter, based on the logic from the Intel IRQ remapping code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>

	M.
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