On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.08.2013, 17:09 +1000 schrieb Ben Skeggs:
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > MSIs were only problematic on some old, broken chipsets. But now that we
>> > already see systems where PCI legacy interrupts are somewhat flaky, it's
>> > really time to move to MSIs.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/mc.h | 1 +
>> > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/base.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>> > 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/mc.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/mc.h
>> > index 9d2cd20..ce6569f 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/mc.h
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/include/subdev/mc.h
>> > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ struct nouveau_mc_intr {
>> > struct nouveau_mc {
>> > struct nouveau_subdev base;
>> > const struct nouveau_mc_intr *intr_map;
>> > + bool use_msi;
>> > };
>> >
>> > static inline struct nouveau_mc *
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/base.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/base.c
>> > index ec9cd6f..02b337e 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/base.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/mc/base.c
>> > @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>> > */
>> >
>> > #include <subdev/mc.h>
>> > +#include <core/option.h>
>> >
>> > static irqreturn_t
>> > nouveau_mc_intr(int irq, void *arg)
>> > @@ -43,6 +44,9 @@ nouveau_mc_intr(int irq, void *arg)
>> > map++;
>> > }
>> >
>> > + if (pmc->use_msi)
>> > + nv_wr08(pmc->base.base.parent, 0x00088068, 0xff);
>> Register not present everywhere.
>>
>> At the very least, the enabling of MSI should be disallowed on the
>> earlier chipsets where it's not supported. Though, it's perhaps
>> possible that the pci_enable_msi() call will fail in all of these
>> cases anyway.. I'm not certain.
>>
> MSIs are required property for everything doing PCIe. So the only cases
> where this should fail is plain PCI/AGP devices. I don't really have a
> test system for those old cards set up.
>
> But I remember Ilia having some legacy things plugged in, so maybe he
> could test this patch and see how it goes?
Sure, let me know what you need -- I have nv18 PCI, nv34 PCIe (note
that it's not native PCIe, but some sort of bridge thing IIRC), nv42
PCIe, nv44 PCIe, nv96 PCIe.
Can I just apply this patch, or do I need to do the whole series? What
constitutes a success?
-ilia
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