Re: [PATCH v13 4/7] RISC-V: Treat IPIs as normal Linux IRQs

[Anup Patel]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 9:48 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:24:46 +0000,
> Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, the RISC-V kernel provides arch specific hooks (i.e.
> > struct riscv_ipi_ops) to register IPI handling methods. The stats
> > gathering of IPIs is also arch specific in the RISC-V kernel.
> >
> > Other architectures (such as ARM, ARM64, and MIPS) have moved away
> > from custom arch specific IPI handling methods. Currently, these
> > architectures have Linux irqchip drivers providing a range of Linux
> > IRQ numbers to be used as IPIs and IPI triggering is done using
> > generic IPI APIs. This approach allows architectures to treat IPIs
> > as normal Linux IRQs and IPI stats gathering is done by the generic
> > Linux IRQ subsystem.
> >
> > We extend the RISC-V IPI handling as-per above approach so that arch
> > specific IPI handling methods (struct riscv_ipi_ops) can be removed
> > and the IPI handling is done through the Linux IRQ subsystem.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig                |   2 +
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h      |  10 +-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/smp.h      |  35 ++++---
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile        |   1 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/cpu-hotplug.c   |   3 +-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c           |   3 +-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c       |  81 ++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c           | 106 +++-----------------
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c           | 155 +++++++++++++++---------------
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c       |   5 +-
> >  drivers/clocksource/timer-clint.c |  65 ++++++++++---
> >  drivers/irqchip/Kconfig           |   1 +
> >  drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c  |  55 +++++------
> >  13 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 235 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..6466706b03a7
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +/*
> > + * Multiplex several IPIs over a single HW IPI.
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (c) 2022 Ventana Micro Systems Inc.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "riscv: " fmt
> > +#include <linux/cpu.h>
> > +#include <linux/init.h>
> > +#include <linux/irq.h>
> > +#include <linux/irqdomain.h>
> > +#include <linux/percpu.h>
> > +#include <asm/sbi.h>
> > +
> > +static int sbi_ipi_virq;
> > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(int, sbi_ipi_dummy_dev);
> > +
> > +static irqreturn_t sbi_ipi_handle(int irq, void *dev_id)
> > +{
> > +     csr_clear(CSR_IP, IE_SIE);
> > +     ipi_mux_process();
> > +     return IRQ_HANDLED;
>
> Urgh... I really wish I hadn't seen this. This requires a chained
> handler. You had it before, and yet you dropped it. Why?
>
> Either you call ipi_mux_process() from your root interrupt controller,
> or you implement a chained handler. But not this.
>
> Same thing about the clint stuff.

We had chained handler all along but there is problem (which
was pointed to us) in using chained handler because the parent
RISC-V INTC irqchip driver does not have irq_eoi() so the
chained_irq_enter() and chained_irq_exit() will do the interrupt
mask/unmask dance which seems unnecessary.

Is there a better way to avoid the interrupt mask/unmask dance ?

Regards,
Anup

>
>         M.
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> Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.