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* [PATCH 0/3] DWC host without MSI controller
@ 2017-08-28 14:23 Lucas Stach
  2017-08-28 14:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] PCI: designware: only register MSI controller when MSI irq line is valid Lucas Stach
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From: Lucas Stach @ 2017-08-28 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bjorn Helgaas, Tim Harvey, Jingoo Han, Joao Pinto, Shawn Guo
  Cc: linux-pci, linux-arm-kernel, patchwork-lst, kernel

Hi all,

this small series tries to fix/workaround a serious design flaw of the DWC PCIe
host controller: it is unable to work with both legacy and MSI IRQs enabled at
the same time. As soon as the first MSI is enabled in the DWC MSI controller,
the host stops forwarding legacy IRQs.

If the MSI controller is present, MSIs will be used for the PCIe port services
IRQs, leaving endpoint devices which don't support MSIs unable to raise IRQs.
It is only safe to enable the MSI controller if it is validated that all PCIe
devices and drivers in the system support working MSIs. As most devices
support falling back to using legacy PCIe IRQs if MSI support is missing it is
much safer to disable the MSI by default and only enable it on validated
systems.

Feedback welcome.

Regards,
Lucas

Lucas Stach (3):
  PCI: designware: only register MSI controller when MSI irq line is
    valid
  PCI: imx6: allow MSI irq to be absent
  ARM: dts: imx6qdl: remove MSI irq line

 .../devicetree/bindings/pci/fsl,imx6q-pcie.txt     |  8 ++++----
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi                     |  2 --
 drivers/pci/dwc/pci-imx6.c                         | 23 +++++++++++-----------
 drivers/pci/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c             |  4 ++--
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

-- 
2.11.0

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2017-08-28 14:23 [PATCH 0/3] DWC host without MSI controller Lucas Stach
2017-08-28 14:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] PCI: designware: only register MSI controller when MSI irq line is valid Lucas Stach
2017-08-31 16:58   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-08-31 17:32     ` Fabio Estevam
2017-09-25 23:54     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-08-28 14:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] PCI: imx6: allow MSI irq to be absent Lucas Stach
2017-08-28 14:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: imx6qdl: remove MSI irq line Lucas Stach
2017-08-28 16:59 ` [PATCH 0/3] DWC host without MSI controller Tim Harvey
2017-10-09 12:14   ` Fabio Estevam
2017-10-09 12:22     ` Lucas Stach

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