Re: [PATCH 2/2 V4] irqchip: gicv2m: Add support for multiple MSI for ARM64 GICv2m

From: Suravee Suthikulanit
Date: Fri Aug 15 2014 - 10:53:53 EST


On 8/15/2014 8:31 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
Hi Suravee,

+/*
+ * ARM64 function for seting up MSI irqs.
+ * Copied from driver/pci/msi.c: arch_setup_msi_irqs().
+ */
+int arm64_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev, int nvec, int type)
+{
+ struct msi_desc *entry;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (type == PCI_CAP_ID_MSI && nvec > 1)
+ return 1;
+
+ list_for_each_entry(entry, &dev->msi_list, list) {
+ ret = arch_setup_msi_irq(dev, entry);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ if (ret > 0)
+ return -ENOSPC;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}

I'm going to reiterate what I said last time: Why do we need this?

[Suravee] Marc, I understand what you described last time but I think there is one point that missing here. See below.

So far, we have two MSI-capable controllers on their way upstream:
GICv2m and GICv3. Both are perfectly capable of handling more than a
single MSI per device.

[Suravee] I am aware of this.

So why should we cater for this? My gut feeling is that we should just
have:

int arch_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev, int nvec, int type)
{
struct msi_desc *entry;
int ret;

/*
* So far, all our MSI controllers are capable of handling more
* than a single MSI per device. Should we encounter less
* capable devices, we'll consider doing something special for
* them.
*/
list_for_each_entry(entry, &dev->msi_list, list) {
ret = arch_setup_msi_irq(dev, entry);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
if (ret > 0)
return -ENOSPC;
}

return 0;
}

and nothing else. Your driver should be able to retrieve the number of
MSI needed by the device, and allocate them. GICv3 manages it, and so
should GICv2m.


[Suravee] Multi-MSI and MSI-x are not the same. For MSI-X, you can treat each of the MSI separately since it MSI-X capability structure has a table specific for each one of them. For Multi-MSI, there is only one MSI capability structure which control all of them, and you need to program the "multiple-message enable" field with the encoding for "power-of-two", and therefore must be in contiguous range.

Your logic above is what the standard MSI-x setup code is using. It is not handling of how many it can allocate all at once.

As for sharing the logic b/w GICv2m and GICv3, unless they are sharing the same common data structure (e.g. the struct v2m which contans msi_chip), and the allocation function (e.g. generic gic_alloc_msi_irqs()), you pretty much need to do this separately since we need to walk the msi_chip back to its container structure.

I am not saying this cannot be done, but we need to work out the detail together b/w GICv2m and GICv3.

Thanks,

Suravee


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