Re: [EXTERNAL] [tip: x86/apic] x86/io_apic: Cleanup trigger/polarity helpers

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 16:01:28 EST


On Tue, Nov 10 2020 at 19:21, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On 10 November 2020 18:56:17 GMT, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On Tue, Nov 10 2020 at 18:50, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 10 2020 at 16:33, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>> If I could get post-5.5 kernels to boot at all with the AMD IOMMU
>>>> enabled, I'd have a go at throwing that together now...
>>>
>>> It can share the dmar domain code. Let me frob something.
>>
>>Not much to share there and I can't access my AMD machine at the
>>moment. Something like the untested below should work.
>
> Does it even need its own irqdomain? Can it not just allocate directly
> from the vector domain then program its own register directly based on
> the irq_cfg?

It uses pci_enable_msi() and I have no clue about that piece of hardware
and whether that is actually required or not. If it is, then it needs a
domain because that's what pci_enable_msi() uses.

Thanks,

tglx