This series is a first shot at teaching the kernel about the oxymoron
expressed in $SUBJECT. Over the past couple of years, we've seen some
SoCs coming up with ways of signalling level interrupts using a new
flavor of MSIs, where the MSI controller uses two distinct messages:
one that raises a virtual line, and one that lowers it. The target MSI
controller is in charge of maintaining the state of the line.
This allows for a much simplified HW signal routing (no need to have
hundreds of discrete lines to signal level interrupts if you already
have a memory bus), but results in a departure from the current idea
the kernel has of MSIs.
This series takes a minimal approach to the problem, which is to allow
MSI controllers to use not only one, but up to two messages at a
time. This is controlled by a flag exposed at MSI irq domain creation,
and is only supported with platform MSI.
The rest of the series repaints the Marvell ICU/GICP drivers which
already make use of this feature with a side-channel, and adds support
for the same feature in GICv3. A side effect of the last GICv3 patch
is that you can also use SPIs to signal PCI MSIs. This is a last
resort measure for SoCs where the ITS is unusable for unspeakable
reasons.
* From v1:
- irq_find_host now defaults to DOMAIN_BUS_WIRED
- Introduced a new irqchip flag indicating support for Level MSI
- Turned GICv3 MBI allocator spinlock into a mutex
- Exclude fsl-mc from Level MSI
Marc Zyngier (9):
genirq/msi: Allow level-triggered MSIs to be exposed by MSI providers
genirq/msi: Limit level-triggered MSI to platform devices
irqchip/mvebu-gicp: Use level-triggered MSIs between ICU and GICP
dma-iommu: Fix compilation when !CONFIG_IOMMU_DMA
irqdomain: Let irq_find_host default to DOMAIN_BUS_WIRED
irqchip/gic-v3: Mark the base irq domain as DOMAIN_BUS_WIRED
irqchip/gic-v3: Add support for Message Based Interrupts as an MSI
controller
irqchip/gic-v3: Add PCI/MSI support to the GICv3 MBI sub-driver
dt-bindings/gic-v3: Add documentation for MBI support
.../bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt | 17 ++
drivers/base/platform-msi.c | 3 +
drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-msi.c | 2 +
drivers/irqchip/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-mbi.c | 331 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 7 +
drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp.c | 38 +--
drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp.h | 12 -
drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu.c | 33 +-
drivers/pci/msi.c | 3 +
include/linux/dma-iommu.h | 1 +
include/linux/irq.h | 1 +
include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h | 1 +
include/linux/irqdomain.h | 8 +-
include/linux/msi.h | 2 +
kernel/irq/msi.c | 33 +-
16 files changed, 428 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-mbi.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp.h
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2.14.2
