[PATCH 0/4 V3] irqchip: gic: Introduce ARM GICv2m MSI(-X) support

Mark Rutland
2014-07-18T12:40:23Z

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02:05AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 03:12:35PM +0100, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 02:55:34PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > > Hi Jason,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 02:18:54PM +0100, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:05:00PM -0500, suravee.suthikulpanit at amd.com wrote:
> > > > > > From: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This patch set introduces support for MSI(-X) in GICv2m specification,
> > > > > > which is implemented in some variation of GIC400.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This depends on and has been tested with the V7 of"Add support for PCI in AArch64"
> > > > > > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/320).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Changes in V3:
> > > > > > * Rebase to git://git.infradead.org/users/jcooper/linux.git irqchip/gic
> > > > > > (per Jason Cooper request)
> > > > > > * Misc fix/clean up per Mark Rutland comments
> > > > > > * Minor Clean up in the driver/irqchip/irq-gic-v2m.c: alloc_msi_irqs()
> > > > > > * Patch 4 is new to the series:
> > > > > > * Add ARM64-specific version arch_setup_msi_irqs() to allow support
> > > > > > for Multiple MSI.
> > > > > > * Add support for Multiple MSI for GICv2m.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Suravee Suthikulpanit (4):
> > > > > > irqchip: gic: Add binding probe for ARM GIC400
> > > > > > irqchip: gic: Restructuring ARM GIC code
> > > > > > irqchip: gic: Add supports for ARM GICv2m MSI(-X)
> > > > > > irqchip: gicv2m: Add support for multiple MSI for ARM64 GICv2m
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, patch #1 applied to irqchip/urgent. Patches 2 and 3 applied to
> > > > > irqchip/gic with irqchip/urgent merged in. To facilitate
> > > > > testing/merging, I've prepared an unsigned tag for you on the
> > > > > irqchip/gic branch:
> > > >
> > > > I'm a little concerned that this is all going through for v3.17 without
> > > > a {Reviewed,Acked}-by from Marc or anyone working with GIC{,v2m}.
> > >
> > > Well, that's why it's not in irqchip/core yet. ;-) It can be undone if
> > > needed.
> >
> > Ah, perhaps I was a litte premature. :)
> >
> > > > While his comments on v1 have been addressed, he has not had a chance to
> > > > acknowledge the solutions. I appreciate Marc's holiday is unfortunately
> > > > timed.
> > > >
> > > > I also have an open concern with the binding with regard to the
> > > > orthogonality of GICV GICH and the MSI registers.
> > > >
> > > > Suravee, do you need this urgently for v3.17? I was under the impression
> > > > that we wouldn't have full PCIe support by then.
> > >
> > > If Suravee is ok with it, I can drop them for now and he can resend for
> > > v3.18. Since we've worked out a way to merge it all in one window, I
> > > don't think it would hurt anything to wait.
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > > I'll leave these in irqchip/for-next until I hear from Suravee, then
> > > I'll drop the lot till we hear from Marc and look at the timing.
> >
> > Keeping it in for-next for testing sounds like a good idea, but until we
> > hear from Marc I wouldn't want to see this queued for mainline. So the
> > above sounds fine to me.
>
> Ok, here's what I did:
>
> [jason at triton] $ git ldo --graph v3.16-rc1^..irqchip/gic-v2m
> * 3e44358c12cc (HEAD, irqchip/gic-v2m) irqchip: gic: Add support for ARM GICv2m MSI(-X)
> * fe7ac63fe539 irqchip: gic: Restructuring ARM GIC code
> * 6bf0be3f077e Merge branch 'irqchip/urgent' into irqchip/gic
> |\
> | * 144cb08864ed (irqchip/urgent) irqchip: gic: Add binding probe for ARM GIC400
> | * a97e8027b1d2 irqchip: gic: Add support for cortex a7 compatible string
> | * 4f4366033945 (tag: irqchip-urgent-3.16) irqchip: spear_shirq: Fix interrupt offset
> | * 00ac20279174 irqchip: brcmstb-l2: Level-2 interrupts are edge sensitive
> | * b73842b75646 irqchip: armada-370-xp: Mask all interrupts during initialization.
> * | 021f653791ad (tag: deps-irqchip-gic-3.17, irqchip/gic) irqchip: gic-v3: Initial support for GICv3
> * | d51d0af43b30 irqchip: gic: Move some bits of GICv2 to a library-type file
> |/
> * 7171511eaec5 (tag: v3.16-rc1) Linux 3.16-rc1
>
> remote branches removed for clarity.
>
> Basically, I reset irqchip/gic back to tags/deps-irqchip-gic-3.17 (The
> stable tag for GICv3 support), and made the MSI series irqchip/gic-v2m.
>
> I've also removed the dep tag for gic-v2m (tags/dep-irqchip-gic-3.17-2).
> Please consider irqchip/gic-v2m to be completely unstable and drop-able.
> It'll be in -next, but until I hear from Marc, it's not going anywhere.
>
> No commit IDs have changed during this process. The only problem that
> may occur is if the guys depending on GICv3 pulled the branch *and*
> updated it yesterday. If they pulled the tag as I provided, then
> they're fine.

Ok, let's hope that's the case for now. I'll keep an eye out just in
case.

> Sorry for the confusion, I hope I've made it clear above.

Nothing to worry about, thanks for dealing with this quickly and
effectively. I think we're on the same page now.

Cheers,
Mark.