[PATCH v10 3/3] PCI: uniphier: Add misc interrupt handler to invoke PME and AER

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Wed Apr 14 20:46:54 BST 2021


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 01:22:18AM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> This patch adds misc interrupt handler to detect and invoke PME/AER event.
> 
> In UniPhier PCIe controller, PME/AER signals are assigned to the same
> signal as MSI by the internal logic. These signals should be detected by
> the internal register, however, DWC MSI handler can't handle these signals.
> 
> DWC MSI handler calls .msi_host_isr() callback function, that detects
> PME/AER signals using the internal register and invokes the interrupt
> with PME/AER vIRQ numbers.
> 
> These vIRQ numbers is obtained by uniphier_pcie_port_get_irq() function,
> that finds the device that matches PME/AER from the devices associated
> with Root Port, and returns its vIRQ number.

Why do you use the term "vIRQ"?  What exactly is a vIRQ?  It seems no
different than the simple "irq" as stored in pci_dev.irq or
pcie_device.irq and passed to generic_handle_irq().  "virq" is also
used in the patch, so if you change one, please change the other as
well.

Bjorn



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