Re: [RFC Patch V2 15/16] pci, ioapic: kill ioapic PCI driver

[Jiang Liu]

Hi Bjorn,
	I should pay more attention to commit messages:)
Then how about this description?
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PCI: Remove PCI ioapic driver

To support IOAPIC hotplug on x86 and IA64 platforms, OS needs to figure
out global interrupt source number(GSI) and IOAPIC enumeration ID
through ACPI interfaces. So BIOS must implement an ACPI IOAPIC device
with _GSB/_UID or _MAT method to support IOAPIC hotplug. OS also needs
to figure out base physical address to access IOAPIC registers. OS may
get the base physical address through PCI BARs if IOAPIC device is
visible in PCI domain, otherwise OS may get the address by ACPI _CRS
method if IOAPIC device is hidden from PCI domain by BIOS.

When adding a PCI subtree, we need to add IOAPIC devices before enabling
all other PCI devices because other PCI devices may use the IOAPIC to
allocate PCI interrupts.

So we plan to reimplement IOAPIC driver as an ACPI instead of PCI driver
due to:
1) hot-pluggable IOAPIC devices are always visible in ACPI domain,
   but may or may not be visible in PCI domain.
2) we could explicitly control the order between IOAPIC and other PCI
   devices.

We also have another choice to use a PCI driver to manage IOAPIC device
if it's visible in PCI domain and use an ACPI driver if it's only
visible in ACPI domain. But this solution is a little complex.

It shouldn't cause serious backward compatibility issues because:
1) IOAPIC hotplug is never supported on x86 yet because it hasn't
   implemented the required acpi_register_ioapic() and
   acpi_unregister_ioapic().
2) Currently only ACPI based IOAPIC hotplug is possible on x86 and
   IA64, we don't know other specifications and interfaces to support
   IOAPIC hotplug yet.
3) We will reimplement an ACPI IOAPICïdriver support IOAPIC hotplug.

This change also helps to get rid of the false alarm on all current
Linux distributions:
[    6.952497] ioapic: probe of 0000:00:05.4 failed with error -22
[    6.959542] ioapic: probe of 0000:80:05.4 failed with error -22
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On 2014/6/18 0:49, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Your subject lines aren't even consistent in the same patch series.  I suggest:
> 
>   PCI: Remove PCI ioapic driver
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Originally the ioapic PCI driver is designed to support IOAPIC hotplug,
>> but it never works because no architecture has implemented required
>> interface to support it.
> 
> Please be specific about what these "required interfaces" are that no
> architecture has implemented.  Otherwise it's hard for me to be
> convinced that it's safe to remove this.
> 
>> We plan to reimplement it as an ACPI driver
>> instead of PCI driver due to:
>> 1) To support IOAPIC hotplug, an IOAPIC unit must have an companion
>>    ACPI device, but it may or may not be presented in PCI domain.
> 
> Please include the reason why there must be a companion ACPI device.
> 
> What about hotplugging IOAPICs on non-ACPI systems?  How would that
> work?  Will that require totally separate IOAPIC drivers?  I guess
> pci/ioapic.c isn't very big and contains mostly ACPI stuff, so maybe
> there's nothing worth sharing.
> 
> If there must be a companion ACPI device, I guess that implies that we
> can't support an IOAPIC on a plug-in card, because there won't be
> anything in the ACPI namespace about the card.  Is it possible to have
> an IOAPIC on a plug-in card?  I guess I don't know what we could do
> with it, since I don't know how we would learn about what is connected
> to the IOAPIC input pins.  There's no standard for describing that for
> plug-in IOAPICs, is there?
> 
>> 2) All other PCI devices have dependency on IOAPIC, so we must hot-add
>>    it before all other PCI devices and hot-remove it after all other
>>    PCI devices. So we need to explicitly control the order to add/remove
>>    IOAPIC devices.
>>
>> So kill the ioapic PCI driver and will reimplement it as an ACPI driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/pci/Kconfig  |    7 ---
>>  drivers/pci/Makefile |    2 -
>>  drivers/pci/ioapic.c |  121 --------------------------------------------------
>>  3 files changed, 130 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/pci/ioapic.c
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/Kconfig b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
>> index 893503fa1782..39866d18004e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
>> @@ -104,13 +104,6 @@ config PCI_PASID
>>
>>           If unsure, say N.
>>
>> -config PCI_IOAPIC
>> -       bool "PCI IO-APIC hotplug support" if X86
>> -       depends on PCI
>> -       depends on ACPI
>> -       depends on X86_IO_APIC
>> -       default !X86
>> -
>>  config PCI_LABEL
>>         def_bool y if (DMI || ACPI)
>>         select NLS
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/Makefile b/drivers/pci/Makefile
>> index e04fe2d9df3b..73e4af400a5a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/Makefile
>> @@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS) += quirks.o
>>  # Build PCI Express stuff if needed
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS) += pcie/
>>
>> -obj-$(CONFIG_PCI_IOAPIC) += ioapic.o
>> -
>>  # Build the PCI Hotplug drivers if we were asked to
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI) += hotplug/
>>  ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/ioapic.c b/drivers/pci/ioapic.c
>> deleted file mode 100644
>> index 6b2b7dddbbdb..000000000000
>> --- a/drivers/pci/ioapic.c
>> +++ /dev/null
>> @@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
>> -/*
>> - * IOAPIC/IOxAPIC/IOSAPIC driver
>> - *
>> - * Copyright (C) 2009 Fujitsu Limited.
>> - * (c) Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
>> - *
>> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>> - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> - */
>> -
>> -/*
>> - * This driver manages PCI I/O APICs added by hotplug after boot.  We try to
>> - * claim all I/O APIC PCI devices, but those present at boot were registered
>> - * when we parsed the ACPI MADT, so we'll fail when we try to re-register
>> - * them.
>> - */
>> -
>> -#include <linux/pci.h>
>> -#include <linux/module.h>
>> -#include <linux/acpi.h>
>> -#include <linux/slab.h>
>> -
>> -struct ioapic {
>> -       acpi_handle     handle;
>> -       u32             gsi_base;
>> -};
>> -
>> -static int ioapic_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
>> -{
>> -       acpi_handle handle;
>> -       acpi_status status;
>> -       unsigned long long gsb;
>> -       struct ioapic *ioapic;
>> -       int ret;
>> -       char *type;
>> -       struct resource *res;
>> -
>> -       handle = ACPI_HANDLE(&dev->dev);
>> -       if (!handle)
>> -               return -EINVAL;
>> -
>> -       status = acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_GSB", NULL, &gsb);
>> -       if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>> -               return -EINVAL;
>> -
>> -       /*
>> -        * The previous code in acpiphp evaluated _MAT if _GSB failed, but
>> -        * ACPI spec 4.0 sec 6.2.2 requires _GSB for hot-pluggable I/O APICs.
>> -        */
>> -
>> -       ioapic = kzalloc(sizeof(*ioapic), GFP_KERNEL);
>> -       if (!ioapic)
>> -               return -ENOMEM;
>> -
>> -       ioapic->handle = handle;
>> -       ioapic->gsi_base = (u32) gsb;
>> -
>> -       if (dev->class == PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PIC_IOAPIC)
>> -               type = "IOAPIC";
>> -       else
>> -               type = "IOxAPIC";
>> -
>> -       ret = pci_enable_device(dev);
>> -       if (ret < 0)
>> -               goto exit_free;
>> -
>> -       pci_set_master(dev);
>> -
>> -       if (pci_request_region(dev, 0, type))
>> -               goto exit_disable;
>> -
>> -       res = &dev->resource[0];
>> -       if (acpi_register_ioapic(ioapic->handle, res->start, ioapic->gsi_base))
>> -               goto exit_release;
>> -
>> -       pci_set_drvdata(dev, ioapic);
>> -       dev_info(&dev->dev, "%s at %pR, GSI %u\n", type, res, ioapic->gsi_base);
>> -       return 0;
>> -
>> -exit_release:
>> -       pci_release_region(dev, 0);
>> -exit_disable:
>> -       pci_disable_device(dev);
>> -exit_free:
>> -       kfree(ioapic);
>> -       return -ENODEV;
>> -}
>> -
>> -static void ioapic_remove(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> -{
>> -       struct ioapic *ioapic = pci_get_drvdata(dev);
>> -
>> -       acpi_unregister_ioapic(ioapic->handle, ioapic->gsi_base);
>> -       pci_release_region(dev, 0);
>> -       pci_disable_device(dev);
>> -       kfree(ioapic);
>> -}
>> -
>> -
>> -static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(ioapic_devices) = {
>> -       { PCI_DEVICE_CLASS(PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PIC_IOAPIC, ~0) },
>> -       { PCI_DEVICE_CLASS(PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PIC_IOXAPIC, ~0) },
>> -       { }
>> -};
>> -MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, ioapic_devices);
>> -
>> -static struct pci_driver ioapic_driver = {
>> -       .name           = "ioapic",
>> -       .id_table       = ioapic_devices,
>> -       .probe          = ioapic_probe,
>> -       .remove         = ioapic_remove,
>> -};
>> -
>> -static int __init ioapic_init(void)
>> -{
>> -       return pci_register_driver(&ioapic_driver);
>> -}
>> -module_init(ioapic_init);
>> -
>> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
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