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Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Add iProc PCIe PAXC and MSI support

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  Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Add iProc PCIe PAXC and MSI support Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> - 2015-12-02 18:30 +0100

#1282093 — Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Add iProc PCIe PAXC and MSI support

Hi Bjorn,

Is there any more change that you want me to make from the current patch 
set besides the inline comment from Hauke on the MSI patch?

Thanks,

Ray

On 11/27/2015 9:37 AM, Ray Jui wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the iProc PAXC interface and support for
> event queue based MSI, integrated in the iProc PCIe core
>
> This patch series is based on Linux v4.4-rc1 and is avaliable here:
> https://github.com/Broadcom/cygnus-linux/tree/iproc-msi-v4
>
> Between v4 and v3, changes are low risk. Sanity tested below:
> PAXB:
> - Broadcom NS2 SVK board with Intel e1000e network card
>
> Changes from v3:
> - Detect the number of possible CPUs instead online CPUs in the driver. Note
> CPU notifier based implementation still needs to be added in the future, for
> proper support of MSI IRQ affinity when CPU is brought online/offline at
> runtime. Support in this dirver will be added when we support CPU hotplug in
> one of iProc family of SoCs so the changes can be tested
> - Use dma_zalloc_coherent for event queue host memory allocation and zeoring
>
> Changes from v2:
> - Improved descriptions in the iProc MSI commit message
> - Removed redundant host memory used for MSI address. The MSI posted writes
> never really hit the memory. Use iProc PCIe controller base address instead
> - Fixed deadlock when MSI vectors are used up
> - Enforced the number of MSI groups to always be multiple of the number of CPUs
> - Improved the efficiency of MSI event processing by only updating the head
> pointer after finishing processing all outstanding events
> - Fixed error handling code to make sure all configurations are rolled back
> - Added code to zero the host memory used for event queues after allocation
> - Removed redundant 'brcm,num-eq-region' and 'brcm,num-msi-msg-region' DT
>    properties. Now determine the number of regions based on interface type
> - Other misc. changes
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Fixed incorrect 1-to-1 mapping between MSI vector and GIC interrupt. Now the
> driver supports multiple MSI vectors per GIC interrupt
> - Added MSI IRQ affinity support by distributing GIC interrupts across
> available CPU cores and dynamically steer MSI vectors to the target CPU
> - replace readl/writel with readl_relaxed/writel_relaxed since all register
> accesses within the iProc MSI driver are to/from the same I/O block, i.e., the
> iProc PCIe core
> - Removed all redundant irq_chip callback assignments
> - Changed to use uncached host memory for both MSI posted writes and event
> queues
> - Add functions to free resources in error/exit cases
> - In pcie-iproc-platform.c, pass in interface type through OF device data
> - Moved define for max number of interrupts from pcie-iproc.h to
> pcie-iproc-msi.c
> - Other misc. changes
>
> Ray Jui (5):
>    PCI: iproc: Update iProc PCIe device tree binding
>    PCI: iproc: Add PAXC interface support
>    PCI: iproc: Add iProc PCIe MSI device tree binding
>    PCI: iproc: Add iProc PCIe MSI support
>    ARM: dts: Enable MSI support for Broadcom Cygnus
>
>   .../devicetree/bindings/pci/brcm,iproc-pcie.txt    |  40 +-
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm-cygnus.dtsi                  |  22 +
>   drivers/pci/host/Kconfig                           |   9 +
>   drivers/pci/host/Makefile                          |   1 +
>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc-bcma.c                 |   1 +
>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc-msi.c                  | 675 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc-platform.c             |  25 +-
>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c                      | 228 +++++--
>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.h                      |  42 +-
>   9 files changed, 1000 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc-msi.c
>
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