[PATCH v5] PCI: Xilinx NWL: Modifying irq chip for legacy interrupts

[Bharat Kumar Gogada]

Hi Marc,

can you please look into my last comments ?

Regards,
Bharat
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v5] PCI: Xilinx NWL: Modifying irq chip for legacy interrupts
> 
> Waiting for Marc's Reply...
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Marc Zyngier [mailto:marc.zyngier at arm.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 9:33 PM
> > > To: Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku at xilinx.com>; bhelgaas at google.com;
> > > robh at kernel.org; paul.gortmaker at windriver.com;
> > > colin.king at canonical.com; linux-pci at vger.kernel.org
> > > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> > > linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; michal.simek at xilinx.com;
> > > arnd at arndb.de; Ravikiran Gummaluri <rgummal at xilinx.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] PCI: Xilinx NWL: Modifying irq chip for
> > > legacy
> > interrupts
> > >
> > > On 09/02/17 15:16, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> On 09/02/17 12:01, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> > > >>>> On 06/02/17 07:03, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> > > >>>>> +static struct irq_chip nwl_leg_irq_chip = {
> > > >>>>> +	.name = "nwl_pcie:legacy",
> > > >>>>> +	.irq_enable = nwl_unmask_leg_irq,
> > > >>>>> +	.irq_disable = nwl_mask_leg_irq,
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> You don't need these two if they are implemented in terms of
> > > mask/unmask.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> These are being invoked by some drivers other than interrupt flow.
> > > >>> Ex: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
> > > >>> static int ath_reset_internal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct
> > > >>> ath9k_channel *hchan) {
> > > >>>          ....
> > > >>>          disable_irq(sc->irq);
> > > >>>          tasklet_disable(&sc->intr_tq);
> > > >>>         ...
> > > >>>         ...
> > > >>>         enable_irq(sc->irq);
> > > >>>         spin_unlock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock); } For us
> > > >>> masking/unmasking is the way to enable/disable interrupts.
> > > >>
> > > >> And if you looked at the way disable_irq is implemented, you
> > > >> would have found out that it falls back to masking if there is no
> > > >> disable method, preserving the semantic you expect.
> > > >>
> > > > Yes I did see, but this fall back requires extra
> > > > "IRQ_DISABLE_UNLAZY" flag to
> > > be set to each virq.
> > >
> > > No it doesn't. If you do a disable_irq(), the interrupt is flagged
> > > as disabled, but nothing gets done. If an interrupt actually fires,
> > > then the interrupts gets
> > masked,
> > > and the handler is not called.
> > Yes agreed, this is where the problem comes for us. Here is the
> > scenario Ex:drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
> > static int ath_reset_internal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct
> > ath9k_channel *hchan) {
> >   ....
> >    ath9k_hw_set_interrupts(ah);
> >    ath9k_hw_enable_interrupts(ah);
> >    ...
> >   enable_irq(sc->irq);
> >   ...
> > }
> > If you observe this they enable hardware interrupts first and then
> > call enable_irq, at this point of time virq is in disabled state. So,
> > if interrupt is raised in this period of time the handler is never
> > invoked and DEASEERT_INTx will not be seen. As I mentioned in my
> > subject the irq line between bridge and GIC goes low only after it
> > sees DEASSERT_INTx. But since DEASSERT_INTx is never seen line is
> > always high causing cpu stall.
> > So for this kind of EP's we need those two methods.
> >
> > Bharat