Re: [PATCH 00/11] arm/arm64: Turning IPIs into normal interrupts

Florian Fainelli
2020-05-19T19:47:53Z

On 5/19/2020 10:50 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 5/19/2020 9:17 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> For as long as SMP ARM has existed, IPIs have been handled as
>> something special. The arch code and the interrupt controller exchange
>> a couple of hooks (one to generate an IPI, another to handle it).
>>
>> Although this is perfectly manageable, it prevents the use of features
>> that we could use if IPIs were Linux IRQs (such as pseudo-NMIs). It
>> also means that each interrupt controller driver has to follow an
>> architecture-specific interface instead of just implementing the base
>> irqchip functionnalities. The arch code also duplicates a number of
>> things that the core irq code already does (such as calling
>> set_irq_regs(), irq_enter()...).
>>
>> This series tries to remedy this on arm/arm64 by offering a new
>> registration interface where the irqchip gives the arch code a range
>> of interrupts to use for IPIs. The arch code requests these as normal
>> interrupts.
>>
>> The bulk of the work is at the interrupt controller level, where all 3
>> irqchips used on arm64 get converted.
>>
>> Finally, the arm64 code drops the legacy registration interface. The
>> same thing could be done on 32bit as well once the two remaining
>> irqchips using that interface get converted.
>>
>> There is probably more that could be done: statistics are still
>> architecture-private code, for example, and no attempt is made to
>> solve that (apart from hidding the IRQs from /proc/interrupt).
>>
>> This has been tested on a bunch of 32 and 64bit guests.
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> Does this patch series change your position on this patch series
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20191023000547.7831-3-f.fainelli@gmail.com/T/
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> or is this still a no-no?

Our firmware specifies SGI interrupts with the first interrupt cell
specifier set to 2, so changing GIC_IRQ_TYPE_SGI to 2 allows me to use a
nearly unmodified firmware with your changes, sweet! I know this is not
supposed to be used that way, but the temptation was too big.

FWIW, on ARM64:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Florian