[RFC PATCH 25/36] arm_mpam: Register and enable IRQs

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Fri Aug 8 00:12:17 PDT 2025


Hi Fenghua,

On 04/08/2025 17:53, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> On 7/11/25 11:36, James Morse wrote:
>> Register and enable error IRQs. All the MPAM error interrupts indicate a
>> software bug, e.g. out of range partid. If the error interrupt is ever
>> signalled, attempt to disable MPAM.
>>
>> Only the irq handler accesses the ESR register, so no locking is needed.
>> The work to disable MPAM after an error needs to happen at process
>> context, use a threaded interrupt.
>>
>> There is no support for percpu threaded interrupts, for now schedule
>> the work to be done from the irq handler.
>>
>> Enabling the IRQs in the MSC may involve cross calling to a CPU that
>> can access the MSC.

>> +static int mpam_register_irqs(void)
>> +{
>> +    int err, irq, idx;
>> +    struct mpam_msc *msc;
>> +
>> +    lockdep_assert_cpus_held();
>> +
>> +    idx = srcu_read_lock(&mpam_srcu);
>> +    list_for_each_entry_srcu(msc, &mpam_all_msc, glbl_list,
>> srcu_read_lock_held(&mpam_srcu)) {
>> +        irq = platform_get_irq_byname_optional(msc->pdev, "error");
>> +        if (irq <= 0)
>> +            continue;
>> +
>> +        /* The MPAM spec says the interrupt can be SPI, PPI or LPI */
>> +        /* We anticipate sharing the interrupt with other MSCs */
>> +        if (irq_is_percpu(irq)) {
>> +            err = request_percpu_irq(irq, &mpam_ppi_handler,
>> +                         "mpam:msc:error",
>> +                         msc->error_dev_id);
>> +            if (err)
>> +                return err;
> But right now mpam_srcu is still being locked. Need to unlock it before return.

Yup, Jonathan's srcu guard runes solve that in a future proof way.


Thanks,

James



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