[PATCH 0/3] DWC host without MSI controller

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Bjorn,

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this small series tries to fix/workaround a serious design flaw of the DWC PCIe
>> host controller: it is unable to work with both legacy and MSI IRQs enabled at
>> the same time. As soon as the first MSI is enabled in the DWC MSI controller,
>> the host stops forwarding legacy IRQs.
>>
>> If the MSI controller is present, MSIs will be used for the PCIe port services
>> IRQs, leaving endpoint devices which don't support MSIs unable to raise IRQs.
>> It is only safe to enable the MSI controller if it is validated that all PCIe
>> devices and drivers in the system support working MSIs. As most devices
>> support falling back to using legacy PCIe IRQs if MSI support is missing it is
>> much safer to disable the MSI by default and only enable it on validated
>> systems.
>>
>> Feedback welcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lucas
>>
>> Lucas Stach (3):
>>   PCI: designware: only register MSI controller when MSI irq line is
>>     valid
>>   PCI: imx6: allow MSI irq to be absent
>>   ARM: dts: imx6qdl: remove MSI irq line
>>
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/pci/fsl,imx6q-pcie.txt     |  8 ++++----
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi                     |  2 --
>>  drivers/pci/dwc/pci-imx6.c                         | 23 +++++++++++-----------
>>  drivers/pci/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c             |  4 ++--
>>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>
> Lucas,
>
> Thank you for following up on this!
>
> I tested it with and without the third patch that removes msi from the
> dt thus with both an ath9k 802.11 device which only supports legacy
> interrupts and a Marvell sky2 device which supports msi as well as
> legacy interrupts and it works as expected:
>  - without msi enabled in dts (default): both sky2 and ath9k work
>  - with msi enabled in dt: sky2 works ath9k does not
>
> Tested-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com>

Any comments about this series?