Hi,
for the past days, I had a look at the issue of classic MSIs (ie. not
MSI-X) under non-Linux I-pipe domains. Actually, the path that matters
most, IRQ delivery, is perfectly OK as is: just a simple ack on the APIC
and a NOP on completion.
Problematic are IRQ enable/disable (which automatically includes
setup/cleanup) and affinity updates. The point is that we specified at
least the first two services to be usable from RT context as well.
That's a nice-to-have with fast IRQ chips, but its a nightmare with
others. Classic MSI belongs to the latter category.
So we basically have two main options now, each having two variants:
1) disallow IRQ enabled/disable over non-root contexts
1a) confine this to certain IRQs like MSI or
1b) make it a generic API property
2) provide ipipe_irq_mask/unmask services and use them in Xenomai
2a) for MSI, either to map them on a software mask or
2b) to map them on MSI-specific services that bypass the ordinary
[un]mask_msi_irq and use hardened ones (*)
I would prefer to go for the cheaper option 1), probably 1a) as we have
non-MSI users out there that do disable/enable trickery from RT
contexts. Unfortunately, also 1a) will require some new interface
between I-pipe and Xenomai to inform the user about the limited
usability of enable/disable and likely even enforce it at Xenomai level.
Comments, ideas?
Jan
(*) Previously posted patches to address the MSI issue by hardening both
pci_config_lock and pci_lock likely failed as the latter is of too broad
scope, including wake_up_all.
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