Re: [RFC PATCH 28/33] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Support VPE doorbell invalidation even when !DirectLPI

[Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>]

Hi Marc,


On 01/17/2017 04:20 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> When we don't have the DirectLPI feature, we must work around the
> architecture shortcomings to be able to perform the required
> invalidation.
>
> For this, we create a fake device whose sole purpose is to
> provide a way to issue a map/inv/unmap sequence (and the corresponding
> sync operations). That's 6 commands and a full serialization point
> to be able to do this.
>
> You just have hope the hypervisor won't do that too often...
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 59
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index 008fb71..3787579 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ struct its_device {
>   	u32			device_id;
>   };
>   
> +static struct its_device *vpe_proxy_dev;
> +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(vpe_proxy_dev_lock);
> +
>   static LIST_HEAD(its_nodes);
>   static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(its_lock);
>   static struct rdists *gic_rdists;
> @@ -993,8 +996,35 @@ static void lpi_update_config(struct irq_data *d, u8
> clr, u8 set)
>   		struct its_vpe *vpe = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
>   		void __iomem *rdbase;
>   
> -		rdbase = per_cpu_ptr(gic_rdists->rdist,
> vpe->col_idx)->rd_base;
> -		writeq_relaxed(d->hwirq, rdbase + GICR_INVLPIR);
> +		if (gic_rdists->has_direct_lpi) {
> +			rdbase = per_cpu_ptr(gic_rdists->rdist,
> vpe->col_idx)->rd_base;
> +			writeq_relaxed(d->hwirq, rdbase + GICR_INVLPIR);
> +		} else {
> +			/*
> +			 * This is insane.
> +			 *
> +			 * If a GICv4 doesn't implement Direct LPIs,
> +			 * the only way to perform an invalidate is to
> +			 * use a fake device to issue a MAP/INV/UNMAP
> +			 * sequence. Since each of these commands has
> +			 * a sync operation, this is really fast. Not.
> +			 *
> +			 * We always use event 0, and this serialize
> +			 * all VPE invalidations in the system.
> +			 *
> +			 * Broken by design(tm).
> +			 */
> +			unsigned long flags;
> +
> +			raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&vpe_proxy_dev_lock, flags);
> +
> +			vpe_proxy_dev->event_map.col_map[0] =
> vpe->col_idx;
> +			its_send_mapvi(vpe_proxy_dev, vpe->vpe_db_lpi, 0);
> +			its_send_inv(vpe_proxy_dev, 0);
> +			its_send_discard(vpe_proxy_dev, 0);
> +
> +			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vpe_proxy_dev_lock,
> flags);
> +		}
>   	}
>   }
>   
> @@ -2481,6 +2511,31 @@ static struct irq_domain *its_init_vpe_domain(void)
>   	struct fwnode_handle *handle;
>   	struct irq_domain *domain;
>   
> +	if (gic_rdists->has_direct_lpi) {
> +		pr_info("ITS: Using DirectLPI for VPE invalidation\n");
> +	} else {
> +		struct its_node *its;
> +
> +		list_for_each_entry(its, &its_nodes, entry) {
> +			u32 devid;
> +
> +			if (!its->is_v4)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			/* Use the last possible DevID */
> +			devid = GENMASK(its->device_ids - 1, 0);
How do we know this 'devid' is not being used by real hardware devices? 
I think we need some kind check in its_msi_prepare() to skip this device 
or WARN.
Unfortunately Qualcomm doesn't support Direct LPI feature.


-- 
Shanker Donthineni
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
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