[RFC Part4 v1 00/17] Refine support of non-PCI-compliant Message

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 12/11/14 14:46, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >> This patch introduces two optionnal fields to the msi_chip structure:
> >> - a pointer to an irq domain, describing the MSI domain associated
> >>   with this msi_chip. To be populated with msi_create_irq_domain.
> >> - a domain_alloc_irqs() callback that has the same purpose as
> >>   arch_setup_msi_irqs(), with the above domain as an additional
> >>   parameter.
> >>
> >> If both of these fields are non-NULL, then domain_alloc_irqs() is
> >> called, bypassing the setup_irq callback. This allows the MSI driver
> >> to use the domain stacking feature without mandating core support in
> >> the architecture.
> > 
> > I'd rather have the callback in the irqdomain itself. Along with a
> > callback to free the interrupts.
> > 
> > AFAICT is msi_chip more or less a wrapper around the actual MSI irq
> > domain. So we rather move towards assigning irqdomain to the pci bus
> > and get rid of msi_chip instead of adding another level of obscure
> > indirection through msi_chip.
> 
> I can see that putting the irq domain at the bus level makes a lot of 
> sense (assuming nobody tries to have multiple MSI controllers per bus...).

That would be interesting :)
 
> So I'm starting with something like this:
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/irqdomain.h b/include/linux/irqdomain.h
> index 640a1ec..07e50fc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/irqdomain.h
> +++ b/include/linux/irqdomain.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct irq_domain;
>  struct of_device_id;
>  struct irq_chip;
>  struct irq_data;
> +struct device;
>  
>  /* Number of irqs reserved for a legacy isa controller */
>  #define NUM_ISA_INTERRUPTS	16
> @@ -76,6 +77,10 @@ struct irq_domain_ops {
>  		     unsigned int nr_irqs);
>  	void (*activate)(struct irq_domain *d, struct irq_data *irq_data);
>  	void (*deactivate)(struct irq_domain *d, struct irq_data *irq_data);
> +	int (*prepare_alloc_irqs)(struct irq_domain *d, struct device *dev,
> +				  unsigned int nr_irqs, int type);
> +	int (*cleanup_free_irqs)(struct irq_domain *d, struct device *dev,
> +				 unsigned int virq, unsigned int nr_irqs);
>  #endif
>  };
> 
> How do you see this behaving? At the moment, I have the "prepare" callback
> directly calling into pci_msi_domain_alloc_irqs() so that the irqs get
> created, but I have the nagging feeling that it's not what you want... ;-)
> The main issue I can see is that if more than one domain in the stack
> implements that, who gets to call pci_msi_domain_alloc_irqs?
>
> If we try to decouple those two, there is a problem with the creation of
> the intermediate structure (the irq_alloc_info that's in Jiang's patches),
> as this is a arch/driver/whatever specific structure.

Hard to tell. I just saw Jiangs new series arrive and I want to look
at that first before muttering nonsense.

Thanks,

	tglx