Re: [PATCH] PCI: Mediatek: clear irq status after irq dispathed to avoid reentry

From: Honghui Zhang
Date: Wed Dec 20 2017 - 20:42:53 EST


On Wed, 2017-12-20 at 18:52 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Lorenzo, please cc him on all drivers/{host,dwc,endpoint} material]
>
> Please run "git log --oneline drivers/pci/host/pcie-mediatek.c" and
> make yours match. Same capitalization, same sentence structure, etc.,
> e.g.,
>
> PCI: mediatek: Clear IRQ status ...
>
> s/dispathed/dispatched/
>
> s/irq/IRQ/ in the summary and all the English text below.

Thanks for your review and sorry for the mismatch, I will fix that in
next version.

>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:52:14AM +0800, honghui.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Honghui Zhang <honghui.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There maybe a same irq reentry scenario after irq received in current
> > irq handle flow:
> > EP device PCIe host driver EP driver
> > 1. issue an irq
> > 2. received irq
> > 3. clear irq status
> > 4. dispatch irq
> > 5. clear irq source
> > The irq status was not successfully cleared at step 2 since the irq
> > source was not cleared yet. So the PCIe host driver may receive the
> > same irq after step 5. Then there's an irq reentry occurred.
> > Even worse, if the reentry irq was not an irq that EP driver expected,
> > it may not handle the irq. Then we may run into the dead loop from
>
> By "dead loop" I assume you mean "infinite loop"? I don't think it's
> a deadlock since nothing is waiting.
>
Yes, it should be "infinite loop", I will update the commit message in
next version.

thanks.
> > step 2 to step 4.
> > Clear the irq status after irq have been dispatched to avoid the irq
> > reentry.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Honghui Zhang <honghui.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/pci/host/pcie-mediatek.c | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-mediatek.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-mediatek.c
> > index db93efd..3248771 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-mediatek.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-mediatek.c
> > @@ -605,11 +605,11 @@ static irqreturn_t mtk_pcie_intr_handler(int irq, void *data)
> >
> > while ((status = readl(port->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS)) & INTX_MASK) {
> > for_each_set_bit_from(bit, &status, PCI_NUM_INTX + INTX_SHIFT) {
> > - /* Clear the INTx */
> > - writel(1 << bit, port->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS);
> > virq = irq_find_mapping(port->irq_domain,
> > bit - INTX_SHIFT);
> > generic_handle_irq(virq);
> > + /* Clear the INTx */
> > + writel(1 << bit, port->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > @@ -619,10 +619,10 @@ static irqreturn_t mtk_pcie_intr_handler(int irq, void *data)
> >
> > while ((imsi_status = readl(port->base + PCIE_IMSI_STATUS))) {
> > for_each_set_bit(bit, &imsi_status, MTK_MSI_IRQS_NUM) {
> > - /* Clear the MSI */
> > - writel(1 << bit, port->base + PCIE_IMSI_STATUS);
> > virq = irq_find_mapping(port->msi_domain, bit);
> > generic_handle_irq(virq);
> > + /* Clear the MSI */
> > + writel(1 << bit, port->base + PCIE_IMSI_STATUS);
> > }
> > }
> > /* Clear MSI interrupt status */
> > --
> > 2.6.4
> >
> >
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