Re: [Stratos-dev] [PATCH V4 2/2] gpio: virtio: Add IRQ support

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 1:26 PM Viresh Kumar via Stratos-dev
<stratos-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 03-08-21, 17:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the update_irq_type() message would lead to the
> > interrupt getting delivered when it was armed and is now getting disabled,
> > but I don't see why we would call update_irq_type() as a result of the
> > eventq notification.
>
> Based on discussion we had today (offline), I changed the design a bit
> and used handle_level_irq() instead, as it provides consistent calls
> to mask/unmask(), which simplified the whole thing a bit.

The new flow looks much nicer to me, without the workqueue, and
doing the requeue directly in the unmask() operation.

I don't quite understand the purpose of the type_pending and
mask_pending flags yet, can you explain what they actually
do?

Also, I have no idea about whether using the handle_level_irq()
function is actually correct here. I suppose if necessary, the driver
could provide its own irq.handler callback in place of that.

> Also I have broken the rule from specs, maybe we should update spec
> with that, where the specs said that the buffer must not be queued
> before enabling the interrupt. I just queue the buffer unconditionally
> now from unmask().
>
> I am not sure but there may be some race around the "queued" flag and
> I wonder if we can land in a scenario where the buffer is left
> un-queued somehow, while an interrupt is enabled.

Can that be integrated with the "masked" state now? It looks like
the two flags are always opposites now.

      Arnd