Re: [PATCH] PCI: mediatek: Change MSI interrupt processing sequence

[Marc Zyngier]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:21:00 +0000,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> [+cc Srikanth, Pratyush, Thomas, Pali, Ryder, Jianjun]
> 
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:37:58AM +0800, qizhong.cheng wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-01-25 at 17:21 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > On 2022-01-25 16:57, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:33:06AM +0800, qizhong cheng wrote:
> > > > > As an edge-triggered interrupts, its interrupt status should
> > > > > be cleared before dispatch to the handler of device.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not an IRQ expert, but the reasoning that "we should clear
> > > > the MSI interrupt status before dispatching the handler because
> > > > MSI is an edge-triggered interrupt" doesn't seem completely
> > > > convincing because your code will now look like this:
> > > > 
> > > >   /* Clear the INTx */
> > > >   writel(1 << bit, port->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS);
> > > >   generic_handle_domain_irq(port->irq_domain, bit - INTX_SHIFT);
> > > >   ...
> > > > 
> > > >   /* Clear MSI interrupt status */
> > > >   writel(MSI_STATUS, port->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS);
> > > >   generic_handle_domain_irq(port->inner_domain, bit);
> > > > 
> > > > You clear interrupt status before dispatching the handler for
> > > > *both* level-triggered INTx interrupts and edge-triggered MSI
> > > > interrupts.
> > > > 
> > > > So it doesn't seem that simply being edge-triggered is the
> > > > critical factor here.
> > > 
> > > This is the usual problem with these half-baked implementations.
> > > The signalling to the primary interrupt controller is level, as
> > > they take a multitude of input and (crucially) latch the MSI
> > > edges. Effectively, this is an edge-to-level converter, with all
> > > the problems that this creates.
> > > 
> > > By clearing the status *after* the handling, you lose edges that
> > > have been received and coalesced after the read of the status
> > > register. By clearing it *before*, you are acknowledging the
> > > interrupts early, and allowing them to be coalesced independently
> > > of the ones that have been received earlier.
> > > 
> > > This is however mostly an educated guess. Someone with access to
> > > the TRM should verify this.
> > 
> > Yes, as Maz said, we save the edge-interrupt status so that it
> > becomes a level-interrupt. This is similar to an edge-to-level
> > converter, so we need to clear it *before*. We found this problem
> > through a lot of experiments and tested this patch.
> 
> I thought there might be other host controllers with similar design,
> so I looked at all the other drivers and tried to figure out whether
> any others had similar problems.
> 
> The ones below look suspicious to me because they all clear some sort
> of status register *after* handling an MSI.  Can you guys take a look
> and make sure they are working correctly?
> 
>   keembay_pcie_msi_irq_handler
>     status = readl(pcie->apb_base + PCIE_REGS_INTERRUPT_STATUS)
>     if (status & MSI_CTRL_INT)
>       dw_handle_msi_irq
> 	generic_handle_domain_irq
>       writel(status, pcie->apb_base + PCIE_REGS_INTERRUPT_STATUS)
> 
>   spear13xx_pcie_irq_handler
>     status = readl(&app_reg->int_sts)
>     if (status & MSI_CTRL_INT)
>       dw_handle_msi_irq
> 	generic_handle_domain_irq
>     writel(status, &app_reg->int_clr)

I think these two are fine.

The top level interrupt is only a level signal that the is something
to process. The only thing that is unclear is what the effect of
writing to that status register if MSIs are pending at that point. A
sane implementation would just ignore the write.

The actual processing is done in dw_handle_msi_irq(), reading the
PCIE_MSI_INTR0_STATUS register. This same register is then used to Ack
the interrupt, one bit at a time, as interrupts are handled (see
dw_pci_bottom_ack). Ack taking place before the handling, it makes it
safe for edge delivery.

> 
>   advk_pcie_handle_int
>     isr0_status = advk_readl(pcie, PCIE_ISR0_REG)
>     if (isr0_status & PCIE_ISR0_MSI_INT_PENDING)
>       advk_pcie_handle_msi
>         advk_readl(pcie, PCIE_MSI_STATUS_REG)
> 	advk_writel(pcie, BIT(msi_idx), PCIE_MSI_STATUS_REG)
> 	generic_handle_irq
> 	advk_writel(pcie, PCIE_ISR0_MSI_INT_PENDING, PCIE_ISR0_REG)

Same thing, I guess. It is just that the Ack has been open-coded.

>
>   mtk_pcie_irq_handler
>     status = readl_relaxed(pcie->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS_REG)
>     for_each_set_bit_from(irq_bit, &status, ...)
>       mtk_pcie_msi_handler
>         generic_handle_domain_irq
>       writel_relaxed(BIT(irq_bit), pcie->base + PCIE_INT_STATUS_REG)

Similar thing. The PCIE_MSI_SET_STATUS register is read first, and
then written back in the ack callback.

	M.

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