[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: pci: kill pcibios_msi_controller

Jayachandran C. jchandra at broadcom.com
Sun Jul 26 11:43:46 PDT 2015


On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 07:16:46PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 04:25:29PM +0100, Jayachandran C. wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:13:03PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > On ARM PCI systems relying on the pcibios API to initialize PCI host
> > > controllers, the pcibios_msi_controller weak callback is used to look-up
> > > the msi_controller pointer, through pci_sys_data msi_ctrl pointer.
> > > 
> > > pci_sys_data is an ARM specific structure, which prevents using the
> > > same mechanism (so same PCI host controller drivers) on ARM64 systems.
> > > 
> > > Since the struct pci_bus already contains an msi_controller pointer and
> > > the kernel already uses it to look-up the msi controller,
> > > this patch converts ARM host controller and related pcibios/host bridges
> > > initialization routines so that the msi_controller pointer look-up can be
> > > carried out by PCI core code through the struct pci_bus msi pointer,
> > > removing the need for the arch specific pcibios_msi_controller callback
> > > and the related pci_sys_data msi_ctrl pointer.
> > > 
> > > ARM is the only arch relying on the pcibios_msi_controller() weak
> > > function, hence this patch removes the default weak implementation
> > > from PCI core code since it becomes of no use.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> > > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> > > Cc: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > > Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1 at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> > > Cc: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> > > Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> > > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > > Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> > > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> > > ---
> > > v1->v2
> > > 
> > > - Added patch to replace panic statements with WARN
> > > - Removed unused pcibios_msi_controller() and pci_msi_controller() from
> > >   core code
> > > - Dropped RFT status
> > > 
> > > v1: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/356028.html
> > > 
> > >  arch/arm/include/asm/mach/pci.h    |  3 ---
> > >  arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c           | 29 +++++++++++++----------------
> > >  drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c |  9 +++++++--
> > >  drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx.c     | 12 ++++++++++--
> > >  drivers/pci/msi.c                  | 17 +----------------
> > >  5 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> > > index f66be86..0d20142 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> > > @@ -77,24 +77,9 @@ static void pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > >  
> > >  /* Arch hooks */
> > >  
> > > -struct msi_controller * __weak pcibios_msi_controller(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > > -{
> > > -	return NULL;
> > > -}
> > > -
> > > -static struct msi_controller *pci_msi_controller(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > > -{
> > > -	struct msi_controller *msi_ctrl = dev->bus->msi;
> > > -
> > > -	if (msi_ctrl)
> > > -		return msi_ctrl;
> > > -
> > > -	return pcibios_msi_controller(dev);
> > > -}
> > > -
> > >  int __weak arch_setup_msi_irq(struct pci_dev *dev, struct msi_desc *desc)
> > >  {
> > > -	struct msi_controller *chip = pci_msi_controller(dev);
> > > +	struct msi_controller *chip = dev->bus->msi;
> > >  	int err;
> > >  
> > >  	if (!chip || !chip->setup_irq)
> > 
> > Don't you have to go to the top level bus and get the ->msi pointer? Something
> > like:
> > 
> > 	for (bus = dev->bus; bus != NULL; bus = bus->parent)
> > 		if (bus->msi)
> > 			return bus->msi;
> > 
> > I have not been following this closely, so I may have missed some patches.
> 
> The msi pointer is initialized from parent to child in
> pci_alloc_child_bus(), so PCI core does that for us,
> that's my understanding.
> 
> It works the same as sysdata pointer, which is why
> pcibios_msi_controller works in the current kernel.

Thanks.

> On a side note, are you able to prepare a new version
> of your set to enable the PCI generic host on ARM64
> (and remove pci_sys_data and related ifdef CONFIG_ARM
> from it) ?
> 
> We are not far from removing the pci_sys_data dependency,
> if you can't prepare a new version of your series let me
> know I can do it on your behalf.

I will post an updated patch with a minor fix. I will also
add a patch for parsing msi-parent and setting ->msi on
the root bus.

JC.



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