Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] PCI: j721e: Add PCI legacy interrupt support for J721E

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

Hi Marc,

On 10/08/21 6:03 pm, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:58:38 +0100,
> Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> On 09/08/21 3:09 pm, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Mon, 09 Aug 2021 05:50:10 +0100,
>>> Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Marc,
>>>>
>>>> On 04/08/21 8:43 pm, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:29:11 +0100,
>>>>> Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Add PCI legacy interrupt support for J721E. J721E has a single HW
>>>>>> interrupt line for all the four legacy interrupts INTA/INTB/INTC/INTD.
>>>>>> The HW interrupt line connected to GIC is a pulse interrupt whereas
>>>>>> the legacy interrupts by definition is level interrupt. In order to
>>>>>> provide level interrupt functionality to edge interrupt line, PCIe
>>>>>> in J721E has provided IRQ_EOI register.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However due to Errata ID #i2094 ([1]), EOI feature is not enabled in HW
>>>>>> and only a single pulse interrupt will be generated for every
>>>>>> ASSERT_INTx/DEASSERT_INTx.
>>>>>
>>>>> So my earlier remark stands. If you get a single edge, how do you
>>>>> handle a level that is still high after having handled the interrupt
>>>>> on hardware that has this bug?
>>>>
>>>> Right, this hardware (J721E) has a bug but was fixed in J7200 (Patch 3/3
>>>> handles that).
>>>
>>> But how do you make it work with J721E? Is it even worth supporting if
>>> (as I expect) it is unreliable?
>>
>> I've seen at-least the NVMe devices triggers the interrupts again and
>> the data transfer completes. But I agree, this is unreliable.
> 
> Then I don't think you should add INTx support for this system. It is
> bound to be a support burden, and will reflect badly on the whole
> platform. Focusing on J7200 is probably the best thing to do.

Okay, will drop this patch from the series and have INTx support only
for J7200.

Thanks
Kishon