Re: Defining polarity and trigger mode for static interrupts in _PRT

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On 8/30/2016 11:51 AM, Duc Dang wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi
> <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 06:53:29PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Let me throw option d here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know Bjorn wants to keep ACTIVE_LOW in the code for common code but
>>>>> can't we override this in an arch specific way (arm64's pci.c) while
>>>>> creating the root bridge?
>>>>
>>>> On what basis ? You were not copied in from the beginning, but that
>>>> is not different from Duc's initial proposal, which Marc discarded
>>>> because it should not be done at arch level, it depends on the interrupt
>>>> controller.
>>>
>>> I happen to watch the linux-pci and linux-acpi mail-lists. I also saw
>>> Duc's initial proposal.
>>>
>>> I can't imagine someone building an ACPI compliant ARM64 platform
>>> without a GIC interrupt controller.
>>>
>>> The SBSA spec already mentions what kind of compatibility should be
>>> maintained with respect to GIC. You can't have an ACPI system that's
>>> SBSA compliant and not using GIC.
>>>
>>> Can't we just hard code this to ACTIVE_HIGH in arch directory if ACPI
>>> is defined.  Why do we have to reach out to the interrupt controller?
>>
>> Patch below (horrible but no solution will be shiny either).
>>
>>> https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-acpi/2015-November/005973.html
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> If you look at my email above, I tried getting rid of PCI Link object
>>> and I couldn't. I sticked to only thing that works.
>>
>> That's what I object to. If the ACPI bindings do not work for ARM
>> we do not work around issues, we upgrade the specs because what may work
>> for you has to work on all ARM platforms (and all FW developers have
>> to be aware of that). Granted, this is a tiny snag, but the point is
>> that no one knows what's the correct way of describing PCI legacy IRQs
>> on ARM and we need that rectified.
>>
>> This does the trick for me (I can turn it into a function/look-up
>> that returns the polarity), I am sure it will ruffle feathers but
>> we have to find a solution so here it is (that acpi_irq_model gem
>> is already used in generic code drivers/acpi/pci_link.c ;-))
>>
> 
> Good catch! This acpi_irq_model gem does help X-Gene :)
> 

+1 to this too. 

We don't need to invent some fake API or push stuff to the arch directory.

>> -- >8 --
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c
>> index 2c45dd3..c9b8c85 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c
>> @@ -411,7 +411,8 @@ int acpi_pci_irq_enable(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>         int gsi;
>>         u8 pin;
>>         int triggering = ACPI_LEVEL_SENSITIVE;
>> -       int polarity = ACPI_ACTIVE_LOW;
>> +       int polarity = acpi_irq_model == ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_GIC ?
>> +                                     ACPI_ACTIVE_HIGH : ACPI_ACTIVE_LOW;
>>         char *link = NULL;
>>         char link_desc[16];
>>         int rc;
> Regards,
> Duc Dang.
> 


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