Re: Defining polarity and trigger mode for static interrupts in _PRT

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:08:34AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 06:53:29PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > 
> > >> Let me throw option d here.
> > >>
> > >> I know Bjorn wants to keep ACTIVE_LOW in the code for common code but
> > >> can't we override this in an arch specific way (arm64's pci.c) while
> > >> creating the root bridge? 
> > > 
> > > On what basis ? You were not copied in from the beginning, but that
> > > is not different from Duc's initial proposal, which Marc discarded
> > > because it should not be done at arch level, it depends on the interrupt
> > > controller.
> > 
> > I happen to watch the linux-pci and linux-acpi mail-lists. I also saw
> > Duc's initial proposal. 
> > 
> > I can't imagine someone building an ACPI compliant ARM64 platform
> > without a GIC interrupt controller. 
> > 
> > The SBSA spec already mentions what kind of compatibility should be
> > maintained with respect to GIC. You can't have an ACPI system that's
> > SBSA compliant and not using GIC. 
> > 
> > Can't we just hard code this to ACTIVE_HIGH in arch directory if ACPI
> > is defined.  Why do we have to reach out to the interrupt controller?
> 
> Patch below (horrible but no solution will be shiny either).
> 
> > https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-acpi/2015-November/005973.html
> 
> [...]
> 
> > If you look at my email above, I tried getting rid of PCI Link object
> > and I couldn't. I sticked to only thing that works.
> 
> That's what I object to. If the ACPI bindings do not work for ARM
> we do not work around issues, we upgrade the specs because what may work
> for you has to work on all ARM platforms (and all FW developers have
> to be aware of that). Granted, this is a tiny snag, but the point is
> that no one knows what's the correct way of describing PCI legacy IRQs
> on ARM and we need that rectified.
> 
> This does the trick for me (I can turn it into a function/look-up
> that returns the polarity), I am sure it will ruffle feathers but
> we have to find a solution so here it is (that acpi_irq_model gem
> is already used in generic code drivers/acpi/pci_link.c ;-))
> 
> -- >8 --
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c
> index 2c45dd3..c9b8c85 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c
> @@ -411,7 +411,8 @@ int acpi_pci_irq_enable(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  	int gsi;
>  	u8 pin;
>  	int triggering = ACPI_LEVEL_SENSITIVE;
> -	int polarity = ACPI_ACTIVE_LOW;
> +	int polarity = acpi_irq_model == ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_GIC ?
> +				      ACPI_ACTIVE_HIGH : ACPI_ACTIVE_LOW;
>  	char *link = NULL;
>  	char link_desc[16];
>  	int rc;

This still seems weird to me.

If I understand correctly, this GIC has several inputs, all active
high.  Some of those inputs are connected to inverters and then to PCI
INTx wires.

A generic device driver knows about the hardware it drives, including
the properties of its interrupt wires.  PCI drivers and the ACPI/PCI
core know that conventional PCI device INTx wires are active low.
These drivers, being generic, do not know about the GIC inverters.

The patch above basically says "if ACPI tells us about a PCI interrupt
connected to a GIC, *assume* there is an inverter on the input."  But
there's no actual description of that inverter anywhere in ACPI or a
device tree.  Shouldn't that be made explicit somewhere?

If we connect a non-PCI device to a GIC, we need to know whether
there's an inverter.  How could we figure that out?