Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] RISC-V IPI Improvements

[Anup Patel]

Hi Marc,

On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 9:43 PM Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series aims to improve IPI support in Linux RISC-V in following ways:
>  1) Treat IPIs as normal per-CPU interrupts instead of having custom RISC-V
>     specific hooks. This also makes Linux RISC-V IPI support aligned with
>     other architectures.
>  2) Remote TLB flushes and icache flushes should prefer local IPIs instead
>     of SBI calls whenever we have specialized hardware (such as RISC-V AIA
>     IMSIC and RISC-V SWI) which allows S-mode software to directly inject
>     IPIs without any assistance from M-mode runtime firmware.
>
> These patches were originally part of the "Linux RISC-V ACLINT Support"
> series but this now a separate series so that it can be merged independently
> of the "Linux RISC-V ACLINT Support" series.
> (Refer, https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211007123632.697666-1-anup.patel@xxxxxxx/)
>
> These patches are also a preparatory patches for the up-coming:
>  1) Linux RISC-V AIA support
>  2) Linux RISC-V SWI support
>
> These patches can also be found in riscv_ipi_imp_v9 branch at:
> https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git
>
> Changes since v8:
>  - Rebased on Linux-6.0-rc3
>  - Use dummy percpu data as parameter for request_percpu_irq() in PATCH4.
>
> Changes since v7:
>  - Rebased on Linux-6.0-rc1
>  - Use atomic operations to track per-CPU pending and enabled IPIs in PATCH3.
>    (Note: this is inspired from IPI muxing implemented in
>     drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c)
>  - Made "struct ipi_mux_ops" (added by PATCH3) flexible so that
>    drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c can adopt it in future.
>
> Changes since v6:
>  - Rebased on Linux-5.19-rc7
>  - Added documentation for struct ipi_mux_ops in PATCH3
>  - Dropped dummy irq_mask()/unmask() in PATCH3
>  - Added const for "ipi_mux_chip" in PATCH3
>  - Removed "type" initialization from ipi_mux_domain_alloc() in PATCH3
>  - Dropped translate() from "ipi_mux_domain_ops" in PATCH3
>  - Improved barrier documentation in ipi_mux_process() of PATCH3
>  - Added percpu check in ipi_mux_create() for parent_virq of PATCH3
>  - Added nr_ipi parameter in ipi_mux_create() of PATCH3
>
> Changes since v5:
>  - Rebased on Linux-5.18-rc3
>  - Used kernel doc style in PATCH3
>  - Removed redundant loop in ipi_mux_process() of PATCH3
>  - Removed "RISC-V" prefix form ipi_mux_chip.name of PATCH3
>  - Removed use of "this patch" in PATCH3 commit description
>  - Addressed few other nit comments in PATCH3
>
> Changes since v4:
>  - Rebased on Linux-5.17
>  - Includes new PATCH3 which adds mechanism to multiplex a single HW IPI
>
> Changes since v3:
>  - Rebased on Linux-5.17-rc6
>  - Updated PATCH2 to not export riscv_set_intc_hwnode_fn()
>  - Simplified riscv_intc_hwnode() in PATCH2
>
> Changes since v2:
>  - Rebased on Linux-5.17-rc4
>  - Updated PATCH2 to not create synthetic INTC fwnode and instead provide
>    a function which allows drivers to directly discover INTC fwnode
>
> Changes since v1:
>  - Use synthetic fwnode for INTC instead of irq_set_default_host() in PATCH2
>
> Anup Patel (7):
>   RISC-V: Clear SIP bit only when using SBI IPI operations
>   irqchip/riscv-intc: Allow drivers to directly discover INTC hwnode
>   genirq: Add mechanism to multiplex a single HW IPI
>   RISC-V: Treat IPIs as normal Linux IRQs
>   RISC-V: Allow marking IPIs as suitable for remote FENCEs
>   RISC-V: Use IPIs for remote TLB flush when possible
>   RISC-V: Use IPIs for remote icache flush when possible

Friendly, ping ?

Regards,
Anup

>
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                |   2 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/irq.h      |   4 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h      |   7 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/smp.h      |  49 ++++--
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile        |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpu-hotplug.c   |   3 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c           |  21 ++-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c       |  60 ++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c           |  11 --
>  arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c           | 166 ++++++++++----------
>  arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c       |   5 +-
>  arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c        |   5 +-
>  arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c          |  93 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c |  42 +++--
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c  |  60 ++++----
>  include/linux/irq.h               |  18 +++
>  kernel/irq/Kconfig                |   5 +
>  kernel/irq/Makefile               |   1 +
>  kernel/irq/ipi-mux.c              | 244 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  19 files changed, 630 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c
>  create mode 100644 kernel/irq/ipi-mux.c
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>