Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] irqchip/sifive-plic: Add support for Renesas RZ/Five SoC

Marc Zyngier
2022-06-06T15:41:44Z

On Fri, 27 May 2022 12:05:38 +0100,
"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 6:22 PM Lad Prabhakar
> <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> wrote:
> >
> > The Renesas RZ/Five SoC has a RISC-V AX45MP AndesCore with NCEPLIC100. The
> > NCEPLIC100 supports both edge-triggered and level-triggered interrupts. In
> > case of edge-triggered interrupts NCEPLIC100 ignores the next interrupt
> > edge until the previous completion message has been received and
> > NCEPLIC100 doesn't support pending interrupt counter, hence losing the
> > interrupts if not acknowledged in time.
> >
> > So the workaround for edge-triggered interrupts to be handled correctly
> > and without losing is that it needs to be acknowledged first and then
> > handler must be run so that we don't miss on the next edge-triggered
> > interrupt.
> >
> > This patch adds a new compatible string for Renesas RZ/Five SoC and adds
> > support to change interrupt flow based on the interrupt type. It also
> > implements irq_ack and irq_set_type callbacks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/irqchip/Kconfig | 1 +
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig b/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> > index f3d071422f3b..aea0e4e7e547 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> > @@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ config SIFIVE_PLIC
> > bool "SiFive Platform-Level Interrupt Controller"
> > depends on RISCV
> > select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> > + select IRQ_FASTEOI_HIERARCHY_HANDLERS
> > help
> > This enables support for the PLIC chip found in SiFive (and
> > potentially other) RISC-V systems. The PLIC controls devices
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > index bb87e4c3b88e..abffce48e69c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > @@ -60,10 +60,13 @@
> > #define PLIC_DISABLE_THRESHOLD 0x7
> > #define PLIC_ENABLE_THRESHOLD 0
> >
> > +#define RENESAS_R9A07G043_PLIC 1
> > +
> > struct plic_priv {
> > struct cpumask lmask;
> > struct irq_domain *irqdomain;
> > void __iomem *regs;
> > + u8 of_data;
> > };
> >
> > struct plic_handler {
> > @@ -163,10 +166,31 @@ static int plic_set_affinity(struct irq_data *d,
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> > +static void plic_irq_ack(struct irq_data *d)
> > +{
> > + struct plic_handler *handler = this_cpu_ptr(&plic_handlers);
> > +
> > + if (irqd_irq_masked(d)) {
> > + plic_irq_unmask(d);
> > + writel(d->hwirq, handler->hart_base + CONTEXT_CLAIM);
> > + plic_irq_mask(d);
> > + } else {
> > + writel(d->hwirq, handler->hart_base + CONTEXT_CLAIM);
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> I sometimes still see an interrupt miss!
>
> As per [0], we first need to claim the interrupt by reading the claim
> register which needs to be done in the ack callback (which should be
> doable) for edge interrupts, but the problem arises in the chained
> handler callback where it does claim the interrupt by reading the
> claim register.
>
> static void plic_handle_irq(struct irq_desc *desc)
> {
> struct plic_handler *handler = this_cpu_ptr(&plic_handlers);
> struct irq_chip *chip = irq_desc_get_chip(desc);
> void __iomem *claim = handler->hart_base + CONTEXT_CLAIM;
> irq_hw_number_t hwirq;
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!handler->present);
>
> chained_irq_enter(chip, desc);
>
> while ((hwirq = readl(claim))) {
> int err = generic_handle_domain_irq(handler->priv->irqdomain,
> hwirq);
> if (unlikely(err))
> pr_warn_ratelimited("can't find mapping for hwirq %lu\n",
> hwirq);
> }
>
> chained_irq_exit(chip, desc);
> }
>
> I was thinking I would get around by getting the irqdata in
> plic_handle_irq() callback using the irq_desc (struct irq_data *d =
> &desc->irq_data;) and check the d->hwirq but this will be always 9.
>
> plic: interrupt-controller@12c00000 {
> compatible = "renesas-r9a07g043-plic";
> #interrupt-cells = <2>;
> #address-cells = <0>;
> riscv,ndev = <543>;
> interrupt-controller;
> reg = <0x0 0x12c00000 0 0x400000>;
> clocks = <&cpg CPG_MOD R9A07G043_NCEPLIC_ACLK>;
> clock-names = "plic100ss";
> power-domains = <&cpg>;
> resets = <&cpg R9A07G043_NCEPLIC_ARESETN>;
> interrupts-extended = <&cpu0_intc 11 &cpu0_intc 9>;
> };
>
> Any pointers on how this could be done sanely.

Why doesn't the chained interrupt also get the ack-aware irq_chip?

M.

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