Re: [PATCH v10 3/3] PCI: uniphier: Add misc interrupt handler to invoke PME and AER

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Apr 14 2021 - 15:47:03 EST


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 01:22:18AM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> This patch adds misc interrupt handler to detect and invoke PME/AER event.
>
> In UniPhier PCIe controller, PME/AER signals are assigned to the same
> signal as MSI by the internal logic. These signals should be detected by
> the internal register, however, DWC MSI handler can't handle these signals.
>
> DWC MSI handler calls .msi_host_isr() callback function, that detects
> PME/AER signals using the internal register and invokes the interrupt
> with PME/AER vIRQ numbers.
>
> These vIRQ numbers is obtained by uniphier_pcie_port_get_irq() function,
> that finds the device that matches PME/AER from the devices associated
> with Root Port, and returns its vIRQ number.

Why do you use the term "vIRQ"? What exactly is a vIRQ? It seems no
different than the simple "irq" as stored in pci_dev.irq or
pcie_device.irq and passed to generic_handle_irq(). "virq" is also
used in the patch, so if you change one, please change the other as
well.

Bjorn