Re: [PATCH 2/2] pci: call pci_intx when using legacy interrupts in pci_alloc_irq_vectors

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 22:36:32 EST


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:11:05AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > ahci currently insists on an explicit call to pci_intx before falling back
> > from MSI or MSI-X to legacy irqs. As pci_intx is a no-op if the command
> > register already contains the right value is seems safe and useful to add
> > this call to pci_alloc_irq_vectors so that ahci can just use
> > pci_alloc_irq_vectors.
>
> Looking at ahci_init_interrupts() (and probably at commit d684a90d
> ("ahci: per-port msix support")) it looks like pci_alloc_irq_vectors()
> is able to preserve the current AHCI logic?

Not quite. For the currentl logic we need 3 calls to
pci_alloc_irq_vectors, and I have a patch to implement that. From
looking at the changelogs and intentions I think we can consolidate
that down to two calls (per-port vectors and single vectors) and I
will propose that as an RFC on top of the base which, which already
is a huge simplification of the driver.

> > @@ -1200,8 +1200,11 @@ int pci_alloc_irq_vectors(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int min_vecs,
> > }
> >
> > /* use legacy irq if allowed */
> > - if ((flags & PCI_IRQ_LEGACY) && min_vecs == 1)
> > + if ((flags & PCI_IRQ_LEGACY) && min_vecs == 1) {
> > + pci_intx(dev, 1);
>
> It would rather called pci_intx_for_msi() here. But because it is
> a generic code I am not sure what implications it has for all
> drivers out there.

It probably should be pci_intx_for_msi. For now I'm not touching
drivers that need the quirk, so how about getting the intx in
now so that the conversion can start, and I'll send a follow on
to convert to pci_intx_for_msi with Cc to all the relevant parties
for the quirk as a follow on?