Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] PCI: endpoint: Rework the EPC to EPF notification

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 01:03:16PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 08:20:56PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > During the review of the patch that fixes DBI access in PCI EP, Rob
> > suggested [1] using a fixed interface for passing the events from EPC to
> > EPF instead of the in-kernel notifiers.
> > 
> > This series introduces a simple callback based mechanism for passing the
> > events from EPC to EPF. This interface is chosen for satisfying the below
> > requirements:
> > 
> > 1. The notification has to reach the EPF drivers without any additional
> > latency.
> > 2. The context of the caller (EPC) needs to be preserved while passing the
> > notifications.
> > 
> > With the existing notifier mechanism, the 1st case can be satisfied since
> > notifiers aren't adding any huge overhead. But the 2nd case is clearly not
> > satisfied, because the current atomic notifiers forces the EPF
> > notification context to be atomic even though the caller (EPC) may not be
> > in atomic context. In the notification function, the EPF drivers are
> > required to call several EPC APIs that might sleep and this triggers a
> > sleeping in atomic bug during runtime.
> > 
> > The above issue could be fixed by using a blocking notifier instead of
> > atomic, but that proposal was not accepted either [2].
> > 
> > So instead of working around the issues within the notifiers, let's get rid
> > of it and use the callback mechanism.
> > 
> > NOTE: DRA7xx and TEGRA194 drivers are only compile tested. Testing this series
> > on the real platforms is greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Lorenzo, can this series be merged for v6.2 since all the patches are reviewed
> now?

Patch (2) isn't (or I missed something) - we should be looking for
review/testing on it.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Mani
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220802072426.GA2494@thinkpad/T/#mfa3a5b3a9694798a562c36b228f595b6a571477d
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220228055240.24774-1-manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > Changes in v4:
> > 
> > * Added check for the presence of event_ops before involing the callbacks (Kishon)
> > * Added return with IRQ_WAKE_THREAD when link_up event is found in the hard irq
> >   handler of tegra194 driver (Vidya)
> > * Collected review tags
> > 
> > Changes in v3:
> > 
> > * As Kishon spotted, fixed the DRA7xx driver and also the TEGRA194 driver to
> >   call the LINK_UP callback in threaded IRQ handler.
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> > 
> > * Introduced a new "list_lock" for protecting the epc->pci_epf list and
> >   used it in the callback mechanism.
> > 
> > Manivannan Sadhasivam (5):
> >   PCI: dra7xx: Use threaded IRQ handler for "dra7xx-pcie-main" IRQ
> >   PCI: tegra194: Move dw_pcie_ep_linkup() to threaded IRQ handler
> >   PCI: endpoint: Use a separate lock for protecting epc->pci_epf list
> >   PCI: endpoint: Use callback mechanism for passing events from EPC to
> >     EPF
> >   PCI: endpoint: Use link_up() callback in place of LINK_UP notifier
> > 
> >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c       |  2 +-
> >  drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-tegra194.c    |  9 ++++-
> >  drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c | 38 ++++++-------------
> >  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c           | 32 ++++++++++++----
> >  include/linux/pci-epc.h                       | 10 +----
> >  include/linux/pci-epf.h                       | 19 ++++++----
> >  6 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.25.1
> > 
> 
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