linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] PCI: layerscape: Modify the MSIX to the doorbell way

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Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:25:05 +0100
From:   Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
To:     Xiaowei Bao <xiaowei.bao@....com>
Cc:     "bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "robh+dt@...nel.org" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "shawnguo@...nel.org" <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>, "kishon@...com" <kishon@...com>,
        "lorenzo.pieralisi@....co" <lorenzo.pieralisi@....co>,
        "arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "M.h. Lian" <minghuan.lian@....com>,
        Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@....com>, Roy Zang <roy.zang@....com>,
        "jingoohan1@...il.com" <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        "gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com" <gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
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        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] PCI: layerscape: Modify the MSIX to the
 doorbell way

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:08:40AM +0000, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
> > Sent: 2019年8月23日 21:58
> > To: Xiaowei Bao <xiaowei.bao@....com>
> > Cc: bhelgaas@...gle.com; robh+dt@...nel.org; mark.rutland@....com;
> > shawnguo@...nel.org; Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>; kishon@...com;
> > lorenzo.pieralisi@....co; arnd@...db.de; gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; M.h.
> > Lian <minghuan.lian@....com>; Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@....com>; Roy
> > Zang <roy.zang@....com>; jingoohan1@...il.com;
> > gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com; linux-pci@...r.kernel.org;
> > devicetree@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> > linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org; linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] PCI: layerscape: Modify the MSIX to the
> > doorbell way
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:22:39PM +0800, Xiaowei Bao wrote:
> > > The layerscape platform use the doorbell way to trigger MSIX interrupt
> > > in EP mode.
> > >
> > 
> > I have no problems with this patch, however...
> > 
> > Are you able to add to this message a reason for why you are making this
> > change? Did dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq not work when func_no != 0? Or did
> > it work yet dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq_doorbell is more efficient?
> 
> The fact is that, this driver is verified in ls1046a platform of NXP before, and ls1046a don't
> support MSIX feature, so I set the msix_capable of pci_epc_features struct is false,
> but in other platform, e.g. ls1088a, it support the MSIX feature, I verified the MSIX
> feature in ls1088a, it is not OK, so I changed to another way. Thanks.

Right, so the existing pci-layerscape-ep.c driver never supported MSIX yet it
erroneously had a switch case statement to call dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq which
would never get used.

Now that we're adding a platform with MSIX support the existing
dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq doesn't work (for this platform) so we are adding a
different method.

Given that dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq is used by pcie-designware-plat.c we
can assume this function at least works for it's use case.

Please update the commit message - It would be helpful to suggest that
dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq was never called in the exisitng driver because
msix_capable was always set to false.

Thanks,

Andrew Murray

> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew Murray
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Xiaowei Bao <xiaowei.bao@....com>
> > > ---
> > > v2:
> > >  - No change.
> > >
> > >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape-ep.c | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape-ep.c
> > > b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape-ep.c
> > > index 8461f62..7ca5fe8 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape-ep.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape-ep.c
> > > @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static int ls_pcie_ep_raise_irq(struct dw_pcie_ep *ep,
> > u8 func_no,
> > >  	case PCI_EPC_IRQ_MSI:
> > >  		return dw_pcie_ep_raise_msi_irq(ep, func_no, interrupt_num);
> > >  	case PCI_EPC_IRQ_MSIX:
> > > -		return dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq(ep, func_no, interrupt_num);
> > > +		return dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq_doorbell(ep, func_no,
> > > +							  interrupt_num);
> > >  	default:
> > >  		dev_err(pci->dev, "UNKNOWN IRQ type\n");
> > >  		return -EINVAL;
> > > --
> > > 2.9.5
> > >