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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: "Samuel Holland" <samuel@sholland.org>,
	"Anup Patel" <anup@brainfault.org>,
	"Atish Patra" <atish.patra@wdc.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Guo Ren" <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] irqchip/sifive-plic: Add thead,c900-plic support
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:34:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ytrddma.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJF2gTSmyu9nA5M3QLeR1LdGMkeGb7jE93Z9zjixcpb_freLMw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:27:02 +0100,
Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:18 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:33:49 +0100,
> > Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > If you have an 'automask' behavior and yet the HW doesn't record this
> > > > in a separate bit, then you need to track this by yourself in the
> > > > irq_eoi() callback instead. I guess that you would skip the write to
> > > > the CLAIM register in this case, though I have no idea whether this
> > > > breaks
> > > > the HW interrupt state or not.
> > > The problem is when enable bit is 0 for that irq_number,
> > > "writel(d->hwirq, handler->hart_base + CONTEXT_CLAIM)" wouldn't affect
> > > the hw state machine. Then this irq would enter in ack state and no
> > > continues irqs could come in.
> >
> > Really? This means that you cannot mask an interrupt while it is being
> > handled? How great...
> If the completion ID does not match an interrupt source that is
> currently enabled for the target, the completion is silently ignored.
> So, C9xx completion depends on enable-bit.

Is that what the PLIC spec says? Or what your implementation does? I
can understand that one implementation would be broken, but if the
PLIC architecture itself is broken, that's far more concerning.

	M.

-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: "Samuel Holland" <samuel@sholland.org>,
	"Anup Patel" <anup@brainfault.org>,
	"Atish Patra" <atish.patra@wdc.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Guo Ren" <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] irqchip/sifive-plic: Add thead,c900-plic support
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:34:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ytrddma.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJF2gTSmyu9nA5M3QLeR1LdGMkeGb7jE93Z9zjixcpb_freLMw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:27:02 +0100,
Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:18 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:33:49 +0100,
> > Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > If you have an 'automask' behavior and yet the HW doesn't record this
> > > > in a separate bit, then you need to track this by yourself in the
> > > > irq_eoi() callback instead. I guess that you would skip the write to
> > > > the CLAIM register in this case, though I have no idea whether this
> > > > breaks
> > > > the HW interrupt state or not.
> > > The problem is when enable bit is 0 for that irq_number,
> > > "writel(d->hwirq, handler->hart_base + CONTEXT_CLAIM)" wouldn't affect
> > > the hw state machine. Then this irq would enter in ack state and no
> > > continues irqs could come in.
> >
> > Really? This means that you cannot mask an interrupt while it is being
> > handled? How great...
> If the completion ID does not match an interrupt source that is
> currently enabled for the target, the completion is silently ignored.
> So, C9xx completion depends on enable-bit.

Is that what the PLIC spec says? Or what your implementation does? I
can understand that one implementation would be broken, but if the
PLIC architecture itself is broken, that's far more concerning.

	M.

-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-16  3:21 [PATCH V4 0/3] irqchip: riscv: Add thead,c900-plic support guoren
2021-10-16  3:21 ` guoren
2021-10-16  3:21 ` [PATCH V4 1/3] irqchip/sifive-plic: " guoren
2021-10-16  3:21   ` guoren
2021-10-18  5:17   ` Samuel Holland
2021-10-18  5:17     ` Samuel Holland
2021-10-18  5:40     ` Anup Patel
2021-10-18  5:40       ` Anup Patel
2021-10-18  7:05     ` Guo Ren
2021-10-18  7:05       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-18  7:21     ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-18  7:21       ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-19  9:33       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-19  9:33         ` Guo Ren
2021-10-19 10:18         ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-19 10:18           ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-19 13:27           ` Guo Ren
2021-10-19 13:27             ` Guo Ren
2021-10-20 13:34             ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2021-10-20 13:34               ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-20 14:19               ` Guo Ren
2021-10-20 14:19                 ` Guo Ren
2021-10-20 14:59                 ` Darius Rad
2021-10-20 14:59                   ` Darius Rad
2021-10-20 16:18                   ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 16:18                     ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 18:01                     ` Darius Rad
2021-10-20 18:01                       ` Darius Rad
2021-10-21  8:47                       ` Anup Patel
2021-10-21  8:47                         ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 14:33               ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 14:33                 ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 15:08                 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-20 15:08                   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-20 16:08                   ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 16:08                     ` Anup Patel
2021-10-20 16:48                     ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-20 16:48                       ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-21  8:52                       ` Anup Patel
2021-10-21  8:52                         ` Anup Patel
2021-10-21  1:46                     ` Guo Ren
2021-10-21  1:46                       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-21  2:00                   ` Guo Ren
2021-10-21  2:00                     ` Guo Ren
2021-10-21  8:33                     ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-21  8:33                       ` Marc Zyngier
2021-10-21  9:43                       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-21  9:43                         ` Guo Ren
2021-10-16  3:21 ` [PATCH V4 2/3] dt-bindings: update riscv plic compatible string guoren
2021-10-16  3:21   ` guoren
2021-10-16  7:07   ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-16  7:07     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-16  9:16     ` Guo Ren
2021-10-16  9:16       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-16 10:34   ` Heiko Stuebner
2021-10-16 10:34     ` Heiko Stuebner
2021-10-16 12:56     ` Guo Ren
2021-10-16 12:56       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-16 16:31       ` Heiko Stuebner
2021-10-16 16:31         ` Heiko Stuebner
2021-10-20 12:15         ` Guo Ren
2021-10-20 12:15           ` Guo Ren
2021-10-18 12:02   ` Rob Herring
2021-10-18 12:02     ` Rob Herring
2021-10-19  0:55     ` Guo Ren
2021-10-19  0:55       ` Guo Ren
2021-10-16  3:22 ` [PATCH V4 3/3] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: add T-Head Semiconductor guoren
2021-10-16  3:22   ` guoren

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