Re: [PATCH] PCI/MSI: Clarify the irq sysfs ABI for PCI devices

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Aug 20 2021 - 17:43:26 EST


On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 12:26:50AM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../irq has been there for many years but it has never
> been documented. This patch is trying to document it. Plus, irq ABI is very
> confusing at this moment especially for MSI and MSI-x cases. MSI sets irq
> to the first number in the vector, but MSI-X does nothing for this though
> it saves default_irq in msix_setup_entries(). Weird the saved default_irq
> for MSI-X is never used in pci_msix_shutdown(), which is quite different
> with pci_msi_shutdown(). Thus, this patch also moves to show the first IRQ
> number which is from the first msi_entry for MSI-X. Hopefully, this can
> make irq ABI more clear and more consistent.

s/MSI-x/MSI-X/
s/irq/IRQ/

This looks like it should be two patches:

- Update documentation

- Some sort of bug fix in msix_capability_init() and pci_msix_shutdown()

Perhaps do the bug fix first if you want the doc to match the code.

> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 8 ++++++++
> drivers/pci/msi.c | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> index 793cbb7..8d42385 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> @@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ Description:
> This attribute indicates the mode that the irq vector named by
> the file is in (msi vs. msix)
>
> +What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../irq
> +Date: August 2021
> +Contact: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + Historically this attribute represent the IRQ line which runs
> + from the PCI device to the Interrupt controller. With MSI and
> + MSI-X, this attribute is the first IRQ number of IRQ vectors.
> +
> What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
> Date: January 2009
> Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index 9232255..6bbf81b 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> @@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev, struct msix_entry *entries,
> int ret;
> u16 control;
> void __iomem *base;
> + struct msi_desc *desc;
>
> /* Ensure MSI-X is disabled while it is set up */
> pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE, 0);
> @@ -814,6 +815,10 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev, struct msix_entry *entries,
> pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL, 0);
>
> pcibios_free_irq(dev);
> +
> + desc = first_pci_msi_entry(dev);
> + dev->irq = desc->irq;
> +
> return 0;
>
> out_avail:
> @@ -1024,6 +1029,7 @@ static void pci_msix_shutdown(struct pci_dev *dev)
> pci_msix_clear_and_set_ctrl(dev, PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_ENABLE, 0);
> pci_intx_for_msi(dev, 1);
> dev->msix_enabled = 0;
> + dev->irq = entry->msi_attrib.default_irq;
> pcibios_alloc_irq(dev);
> }
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>