Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] Armada8k enable per-port SATA interrupts and drop a hack in the IRQ subsystem

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Hi,

does anyone have any feedback on this?
It has been over a month since I submitted this patch series.

Best
Sven

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 08:59:35AM +0200, sven.auhagen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Sven Auhagen <sven.auhagen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> there were already 4 versions of this series from Miquèl.
> I talked to Miquèl and I fixed up the last comments from v4.
> I am looking for feedback if this patch series is now ready to be merged
> and what should be further changed.
> 
> Here is the original cover letter:
> 
> Some time ago, when the initial support for Armada CP110 was
> contributed, the SATA core was not able to handle per-port
> interrupts. Despite the hardware reality, the device tree only
> represents one main interrupt for the two ports. Having both SATA
> ports enabled at the same time has been achieved by a hack in the ICU
> driver(1) that faked the use of the two interrupts, no matter which
> SATA port was in use.
> 
> Now that the SATA core is ready to handle more than one interrupt,
> this series adds support for it in the libahci_platform code. The
> CP110 device tree must be updated to reflect the two SATA ports
> available and their respective interrupts. To do not break DT backward
> compatibility, the ahci_platform driver now embeds a special quirk
> which checks if the DT is valid (only for A8k compatible) and, if
> needed, creates the two missing sub-nodes, and assign them the
> relevant "reg" and "interrupts" properties, before removing the main
> SATA node "interrupts" one.
> 
> (1) The ICU is an irqchip aggregating the CP110 (south-bridge)
> interrupts into MSIs for the AP806 (north-bridge).
> 
> Best
> Sven
> 
> Changes in v5
> =============
> * Rebase on top of v5.8-rc3
> * Move code to ahci mvebu and use custom functions
> 
> Changes in v4
> =============
> * Rebase on top of v5.2-rc1
> * s/ARM64/arm64/ in the DT change commit title.
> 
> Changes in v3
> =============
> * Removed useless locking when acking the SATA host IRQ_STAT bit.
> * As spotted by Hans, do not enable the AHCI_HFLAG_MULTI_MSI flag only
>   if more than one port is enabled, DTs might declare only one
>   interrupt and have multiple ports. Added Hans' Reviewed-by tag.
> * Added Rob's Reviewed-by tags.
> * Added explicit references to the 'Device Tree' being the culprit
>   for the hacks which are being treated in patch "ata: ahci: mvebu:
>   Add support for A8k legacy bindings" as suggested by Marc.
> * Modified all DTs to avoid enabling/disabling the SATA ports
>   independently, which does not work. Either both ports are enabled, or
>   none. Tested on MacchiatoBin that all three availabe ports on the
>   board are functional.
> 
> Changes in v2
> =============
> * In the AHCI world, the 'irq' is now an '*irqs' array, I ensured it
>   is allocated even when not using *_platform drivers.
> * Moved the whole logic from the generic ahci_platform.c driver to the
>   Marvell's ahci_mvebu.c driver.
> * Dropped the whole DT manipulation quirk.
> * Instead used a hack to configure both interrupts when using the
>   deprecated bindings, this hack is a8k specific but there is a flag
>   that is passed to the core during the ahci_platform_get_resources()
>   to indicate that the number of ports must be forced to 2 no matter
>   the number of child nodes.
> * The A8k based Clearfog-GT actually uses the SATA IP (Baruch's info)
>   so do not remove the SATA node from the DT. Instead, change the DTS
>   to fit the new bindings (the board only uses the second port at
>   offset 1).
> * Added bindings documentation about the A8k AHCI compatible (existing
>   in DTs, missing in the doc).
> * SATA Sub-nodes representing ports already are documented, I just
>   added a mention that they can also have an interrupts property which
>   is mutually exclusive with the root SATA node.
> 
> Miquel Raynal (5):
>   ata: ahci: mvebu: Rename a platform data flag
>   ata: ahci: mvebu: Support A8k compatible
>   irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Remove the double SATA ports interrupt hack
>   dt-bindings: ata: Update ahci bindings with possible per-port
>     interrupts
>   dt-bindings: ata: Update ahci_mvebu bindings
> 
> Sven Auhagen (2):
>   ata: ahci: mvebu: Add support for A8k legacy DT bindings
>   arm64: dts: marvell: armada-cp110: Switch to per-port SATA interrupts
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt |   7 +
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-cp11x.dtsi |   6 +-
>  drivers/ata/ahci.h                            |   3 +
>  drivers/ata/ahci_mvebu.c                      | 254 +++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/ata/libahci.c                         |   3 +-
>  drivers/ata/libahci_platform.c                |   3 +
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu.c               |  18 --
>  include/linux/ahci_platform.h                 |   1 +
>  8 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)
> 



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