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

Kunihiko Hayashi hayashi.kunihiko at socionext.com
Thu Apr 22 17:13:08 BST 2021


Hi Bjorn,

On 2021/04/15 4:46, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 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.
Indeed, I used "virq" in contrast to "hwirq", but that seems wrong.
This interrupt number is equivarent to pci_dev.irq, so I'll fix it.

Thank you,

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Best Regards
Kunihiko Hayashi



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