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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Duc Dang <dhdang@apm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>, Feng Kan <fkan@apm.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Tanmay Inamdar <tinamdar@apm.com>,
	Loc Ho <lho@apm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:44:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1678162.2PJ2o1jRen@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADaLND=C3AjdZpiMpom7+-Dgwc83NYo5pDjDWo+hrW7VDZ4m3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 12 January 2015 10:53:14 Duc Dang wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2015 08:15:41 Duc Dang wrote:
> >> X-Gene v1 SOC supports total 2688 MSI/MSIX vectors coalesced into
> >> 16 HW IRQ lines.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tanmay Inamdar <tinamdar@apm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Duc Dang <dhdang@apm.com>
> >>
> >
> > I might be a little behind the latest development, but why is this
> > not a struct msi_controller?
> 
> X-Gene V1 have a separate MSI block to handle MSI/MSIX and is shared
> among 5 PCIe ports.
> So in this driver for this MSI block, we implement X-Gene v1 sepcific
> arch_teardown_msi_irqs,
> arch_setup_msi_irqs and not using msi_controller struct.

I see.

> Please let me know if this approach needs to be changed to follow
> other implementations of MSI
> drivers in latest kernel.

Yes, your approach does not work on distro kernels which will always
enable multiple targets. You cannot override generic weak functions from
a device driver.

	Arnd

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:44:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1678162.2PJ2o1jRen@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADaLND=C3AjdZpiMpom7+-Dgwc83NYo5pDjDWo+hrW7VDZ4m3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 12 January 2015 10:53:14 Duc Dang wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2015 08:15:41 Duc Dang wrote:
> >> X-Gene v1 SOC supports total 2688 MSI/MSIX vectors coalesced into
> >> 16 HW IRQ lines.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tanmay Inamdar <tinamdar@apm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Duc Dang <dhdang@apm.com>
> >>
> >
> > I might be a little behind the latest development, but why is this
> > not a struct msi_controller?
> 
> X-Gene V1 have a separate MSI block to handle MSI/MSIX and is shared
> among 5 PCIe ports.
> So in this driver for this MSI block, we implement X-Gene v1 sepcific
> arch_teardown_msi_irqs,
> arch_setup_msi_irqs and not using msi_controller struct.

I see.

> Please let me know if this approach needs to be changed to follow
> other implementations of MSI
> drivers in latest kernel.

Yes, your approach does not work on distro kernels which will always
enable multiple targets. You cannot override generic weak functions from
a device driver.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-12 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 230+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-06 16:15 [PATCH 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15 ` Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe " Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15   ` Duc Dang
2015-01-06 19:33   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-06 19:33     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-12 18:53     ` Duc Dang
2015-01-12 18:53       ` Duc Dang
2015-01-12 19:44       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-01-12 19:44         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-04 19:39         ` [PATCH v2 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:39           ` Duc Dang
2015-03-18 17:43           ` Duc Dang
2015-03-18 17:43             ` Duc Dang
2015-03-19 20:49             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-03-19 20:49               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-03-19 20:59               ` Duc Dang
2015-03-19 20:59                 ` Duc Dang
2015-03-19 21:08                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-03-19 21:08                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-03-04 19:39         ` [PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe " Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:39           ` Duc Dang
2015-03-18 18:05           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-18 18:05             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-18 18:29             ` Duc Dang
2015-03-18 18:29               ` Duc Dang
2015-03-18 18:52               ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-18 18:52                 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-07 19:56                 ` Duc Dang
2015-04-07 19:56                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-08  7:44                   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-08  7:44                     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-09 17:05                     ` [PATCH v3 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                     ` [PATCH v3 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe " Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 20:11                       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-04-09 20:11                         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-04-09 21:52                         ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 21:52                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 22:39                           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-04-09 22:39                             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-04-09 23:26                             ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 23:26                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-10 17:20                       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10 17:20                         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10 17:20                         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10 23:42                         ` Duc Dang
2015-04-10 23:42                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-10 23:42                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-11 12:06                           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-11 12:06                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-14 18:20                             ` Duc Dang
2015-04-14 18:20                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-15  8:16                               ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-15  8:16                                 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-17  9:50                                 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe " Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17 14:10                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-17 14:10                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-19 18:40                                     ` Duc Dang
2015-04-19 18:40                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-19 19:55                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-19 19:55                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-20 18:49                                         ` Feng Kan
2015-04-20 18:49                                           ` Feng Kan
2015-04-20 18:49                                           ` Feng Kan
2015-04-21  7:16                                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-21  7:16                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-17  9:50                                 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-04-17  9:50                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17 10:00                                 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-04-17 10:00                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17 10:17                                   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-17 10:17                                     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-17 12:37                                     ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17 12:37                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-17 12:45                                       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-17 12:45                                         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-20 18:51                                         ` Feng Kan
2015-04-20 18:51                                           ` Feng Kan
2015-04-21  8:32                                           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21  8:32                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21  4:04                                         ` [PATCH v5 0/4]PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-22  3:02                                           ` Jon Masters
2015-04-22  3:02                                             ` Jon Masters
2015-04-22  3:02                                           ` Jon Masters
2015-04-22  3:02                                             ` Jon Masters
2015-04-21  4:04                                         ` [PATCH v5 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe " Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 15:08                                           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21 15:08                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21 15:08                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-22  6:15                                             ` [PATCH v6 0/4]PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                             ` [PATCH v6 1/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                             ` [PATCH v6 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-22 12:50                                               ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-22 12:50                                                 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-22 12:50                                                 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-18  9:55                                                 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-20  9:16                                                   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-20  9:16                                                     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-20  9:16                                                     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-22 18:41                                                     ` [PATCH v8 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                     ` [PATCH v8 1/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                     ` [PATCH v8 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-25 11:52                                                       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-25 11:52                                                         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-25 11:52                                                         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-27 18:27                                                         ` [PATCH v9 0/4]PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                         ` [PATCH v9 1/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                         ` [PATCH v9 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-28  8:05                                                           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-28  8:05                                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-28  8:05                                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-05-28 17:16                                                             ` Duc Dang
2015-05-28 17:16                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-05-28 17:16                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                             ` [PATCH v10 0/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add APM X-Gene v1 " Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-06-05 21:05                                                               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-06-05 21:05                                                                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-06-05 21:11                                                                 ` Duc Dang
2015-06-05 21:11                                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                             ` [PATCH v10 1/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                             ` [PATCH v10 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                             ` [PATCH v10 3/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                             ` [PATCH v10 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-05-29 18:24                                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                         ` [PATCH v9 3/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                         ` [PATCH v9 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:27                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:31                                                         ` [PATCH v8 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:31                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-27 18:31                                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                     ` [PATCH v8 3/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                     ` [PATCH v8 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:41                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:43                                                     ` [PATCH v7 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:43                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-22 18:43                                                       ` Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-05-18  9:55                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-18 10:12                                                 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-05-18 10:12                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-05-18 10:12                                                   ` Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                             ` [PATCH v6 3/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                             ` [PATCH v6 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-04-22  6:15                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                         ` [PATCH v5 2/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 15:19                                           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21 15:19                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21 15:19                                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-21 18:01                                             ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 18:01                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 18:01                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                         ` [PATCH v5 3/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 15:42                                           ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-21 15:42                                             ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-21 15:42                                             ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-21 17:37                                             ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 17:37                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21 17:37                                               ` Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                         ` [PATCH v5 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-04-21  4:04                                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-11  0:16                         ` [PATCH v3 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Feng Kan
2015-04-11  0:16                           ` Feng Kan
2015-04-11  0:16                           ` Feng Kan
2015-04-11 12:18                           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-11 12:18                             ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-11 14:50                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-11 14:50                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-11 14:50                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-10 18:13                       ` Paul Bolle
2015-04-10 18:13                         ` Paul Bolle
2015-04-10 23:55                         ` Duc Dang
2015-04-10 23:55                           ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                     ` [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                     ` [PATCH v3 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:05                       ` Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:20                     ` [PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI/MSIX termination driver Duc Dang
2015-04-09 17:20                       ` Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:39         ` [PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:39           ` Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:39         ` [PATCH v2 3/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:39           ` Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:40         ` [PATCH v2 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-03-04 19:40           ` Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: dts: Add the device tree entry for the APM X-Gene PCIe MSI node Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15   ` Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] documentation: dts: Add the device tree binding for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI device tree node Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15   ` Duc Dang
2015-01-06 19:34   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-06 19:34     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-06 16:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] PCI: X-Gene: Add the MAINTAINERS entry for APM X-Gene v1 PCIe MSI driver Duc Dang
2015-01-06 16:15   ` Duc Dang

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