On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 11:04:22AM -0400, Robbie King wrote: > Hello Huisong, your raising of the shared interrupt issue is very timely, I > am working to implement "Extended PCC subspaces (types 3 and 4)" using PCC > on the ARM RDN2 reference platform as a proof of concept, and encountered > this issue as well. FWIW, I am currently testing using Sudeep's patch with > the "chan_in_use" flag removed, and so far have not encountered any issues. > Interesting, do you mean the patch I post in this thread but without the whole chan_in_use flag ? > I think the RDN2 may provide an example of a write only interrupt > acknowledge mechanism mentioned by Sudeep. > Yes. > The RDN2 reference design uses the MHUv2 IP for the doorbell mechanism. If > my implementation is correct (and it quite possibly is not), acknowledging > the DB interrupt from the platform is accomplished by writing a 1 to the > appropriate bit in the receiver channel window CH_CLR register, which is > documented as: > > Channel flag clear. > Write 0b1 to a bit clears the corresponding bit in the CH_ST and CH_ST_MSK. > Writing 0b0 has no effect. > Each bit always reads as 0b0. > Correct, on this MHUv[1-2], it is write only register and it reads zero. So basically you will ignore the interrupt if we apply the logic Huisong proposed initially. > in the "Arm Corstone SSE-700 Subsystem Technical Reference Manual". > > Apologies if I am off in the weeds here as I have only been working with > PCC/SCMI for a very short period of time. Good to know info :). -- Regards, Sudeep