Re: [PATCH 1/6] PCI: iproc: Update iProc PCI binding for INTx support

[Ray Jui]

On 9/25/2018 3:55 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:49 PM Lorenzo Pieralisi
> <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:53:13PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:42 PM Lorenzo Pieralisi
>>> <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:17:49AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>> +Arnd
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Update the iProc PCIe binding document for better modeling of the legacy
>>>>>> interrupt (INTx) support
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/pci/brcm,iproc-pcie.txt    | 31 +++++++++++++++++-----
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/brcm,iproc-pcie.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/brcm,iproc-pcie.txt
>>>>>> index b8e48b4..7ea24dc 100644
>>>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/brcm,iproc-pcie.txt
>>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/brcm,iproc-pcie.txt
>>>>>> @@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ controller, used in Stingray
>>>>>>    PAXB-based root complex is used for external endpoint devices. PAXC-based
>>>>>>  root complex is connected to emulated endpoint devices internal to the ASIC
>>>>>>  - reg: base address and length of the PCIe controller I/O register space
>>>>>> -- #interrupt-cells: set to <1>
>>>>>> -- interrupt-map-mask and interrupt-map, standard PCI properties to define the
>>>>>> -  mapping of the PCIe interface to interrupt numbers
>>>>>>  - linux,pci-domain: PCI domain ID. Should be unique for each host controller
>>>>>>  - bus-range: PCI bus numbers covered
>>>>>>  - #address-cells: set to <3>
>>>>>> @@ -41,6 +38,16 @@ Required:
>>>>>>  - brcm,pcie-ob-axi-offset: The offset from the AXI address to the internal
>>>>>>  address used by the iProc PCIe core (not the PCIe address)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +Legacy interrupt (INTx) support (optional):
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +Note INTx is for PAXB only.
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +- interrupt-controller: claims itself as an interrupt controller for INTx
>>>>>> +- #interrupt-cells: set to <1>
>>>>>> +- interrupt-map-mask and interrupt-map, standard PCI properties to define
>>>>>> +the mapping of the PCIe interface to interrupt numbers
>>>>>> +- interrupts: interrupt line wired to the generic GIC for INTx support
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>  MSI support (optional):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  For older platforms without MSI integrated in the GIC, iProc PCIe core provides
>>>>>> @@ -77,9 +84,14 @@ Example:
>>>>>>                 compatible = "brcm,iproc-pcie";
>>>>>>                 reg = <0x18012000 0x1000>;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +               interrupt-controller;
>>>>>>                 #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>>>>>> -               interrupt-map-mask = <0 0 0 0>;
>>>>>> -               interrupt-map = <0 0 0 0 &gic GIC_SPI 100 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
>>>>>> +               interrupt-map-mask = <0 0 0 7>;
>>>>>> +               interrupt-map = <0 0 0 1 &pcie0 1>,
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you sure this works? The irq parsing code will ignore
>>>>> interrupt-map if interrupt-controller is found. In other words, you
>>>>> should have one or the other, but not both.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it happens to work because "pcie0" is this node and your irq
>>>>> numbers are the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> Arnd, any thoughts on this?
>>>>
>>>> To start with, I think the destination IRQ number is wrong, what the
>>>> mappings actually do is mapping the PCI interrupt line (ie #INTA, #INTB,
>>>> #INTC, #INTD) to input {0,1,2,3} of the PCI host bridge (pseudo)
>>>> interrupt controller.
>>>>
>>>> I really want to clean this up since currently there are different
>>>> DT bindings defining this in different ways which resulted in
>>>> non-consistent kernel code.
>>>>
>>>> AFAICS, the Aardvark PCIe controller bindings define the mapping
>>>> as I expect:
>>>>
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/aardvark-pci.txt?h=v4.19-rc4
>>>>
>>>> but I would like to get Rob and Arnd viewpoint on this so that
>>>> we can close this topic once for all.
>>>
>>> It seems ambiguous at best, as Rob suggested it may only
>>> work by accident. Since there is only one upstream interrupt,
>>> could we simply list <GIC_SPI 100 IRQ_TYPE_NONE> as
>>> the destination for any IntX?
>>
>> I think that would not be correct from an HW description standpoint
>> since there is some logic in the host bridge that behaves as an
>> interrupt controller (eg registers to ack/mask IRQs).
>>
>> AFAICS the aardvark (it is an example) bindings below should be correct,
>> with an interrupt controller node within the PCI host bridge:
>>
>>         pcie0: pcie@d0070000 {
>>                 compatible = "marvell,armada-3700-pcie";
>>                 device_type = "pci";
>>                 reg = <0 0xd0070000 0 0x20000>;
>>                 #address-cells = <3>;
>>                 #size-cells = <2>;
>>                 bus-range = <0x00 0xff>;
>>                 interrupts = <GIC_SPI 29 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>>                 #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>>                 msi-controller;
>>                 msi-parent = <&pcie0>;
>>                 ranges = <0x82000000 0 0xe8000000   0 0xe8000000 0 0x1000000 /* Port 0 MEM */
>>                           0x81000000 0 0xe9000000   0 0xe9000000 0 0x10000>; /* Port 0 IO*/
>>                 interrupt-map-mask = <0 0 0 7>;
>>                 interrupt-map = <0 0 0 1 &pcie_intc 0>,
>>                                 <0 0 0 2 &pcie_intc 1>,
>>                                 <0 0 0 3 &pcie_intc 2>,
>>                                 <0 0 0 4 &pcie_intc 3>;
>>                 pcie_intc: interrupt-controller {
>>                         interrupt-controller;
>>                         #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>>                 };
>>         };
>>
>> Thoughts ?
> 
> Yes, I think that's better. We probably still need to move the
> interrupts, msi-controller, msi-parent and interrupt-parent
> properties into the child node.

Okay thanks for all the feedback. In my case, I think I just to need
create a dummy 'intc' subnode under the pcie node and declare it as a
(dummy) interrupt controller).

I'll make the change in my next revision.

> 
>         Arnd
>