Re: [PATCH 00/11] arm/arm64: Turning IPIs into normal interrupts

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/19/2020 9:17 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> For as long as SMP ARM has existed, IPIs have been handled as
> something special. The arch code and the interrupt controller exchange
> a couple of hooks (one to generate an IPI, another to handle it).
> 
> Although this is perfectly manageable, it prevents the use of features
> that we could use if IPIs were Linux IRQs (such as pseudo-NMIs). It
> also means that each interrupt controller driver has to follow an
> architecture-specific interface instead of just implementing the base
> irqchip functionnalities. The arch code also duplicates a number of
> things that the core irq code already does (such as calling
> set_irq_regs(), irq_enter()...).
> 
> This series tries to remedy this on arm/arm64 by offering a new
> registration interface where the irqchip gives the arch code a range
> of interrupts to use for IPIs. The arch code requests these as normal
> interrupts.
> 
> The bulk of the work is at the interrupt controller level, where all 3
> irqchips used on arm64 get converted.
> 
> Finally, the arm64 code drops the legacy registration interface. The
> same thing could be done on 32bit as well once the two remaining
> irqchips using that interface get converted.
> 
> There is probably more that could be done: statistics are still
> architecture-private code, for example, and no attempt is made to
> solve that (apart from hidding the IRQs from /proc/interrupt).
> 
> This has been tested on a bunch of 32 and 64bit guests.

Does this patch series change your position on this patch series

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20191023000547.7831-3-f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx/T/

or is this still a no-no?

> 
> Marc Zyngier (11):
>   genirq: Add fasteoi IPI flow
>   genirq: Allow interrupts to be excluded from /proc/interrupts
>   arm64: Allow IPIs to be handled as normal interrupts
>   ARM: Allow IPIs to be handled as normal interrupts
>   irqchip/gic-v3: Describe the SGI range
>   irqchip/gic-v3: Configure SGIs as standard interrupts
>   irqchip/gic: Refactor SMP configuration
>   irqchip/gic: Configure SGIs as standard interrupts
>   irqchip/gic-common: Don't enable SGIs by default
>   irqchip/bcm2836: Configure mailbox interrupts as standard interrupts
>   arm64: Kill __smp_cross_call and co
> 
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                  |   1 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h        |   5 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/smp.c             |  97 +++++++++++---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                |   1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/irq_work.h |   4 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h      |   6 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c           |  98 +++++++++++----
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2836.c     | 151 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c  |   3 -
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c      | 109 ++++++++++------
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c         | 203 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>  include/linux/irq.h               |   4 +-
>  kernel/irq/chip.c                 |  26 ++++
>  kernel/irq/debugfs.c              |   1 +
>  kernel/irq/proc.c                 |   2 +-
>  kernel/irq/settings.h             |   7 ++
>  16 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 203 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
Florian