On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Jiang Liu wrote: > Recently Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> has posted a patch set at > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/7/712 > to enhance PCI MSI code to support generic MSI. > > This is a companion patch set to refine struct msi_desc and related data > structures to support generic MSI, and it would be better to combined with > Marc's patch set. It's also requested by > Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > It first introduces a helper function msi_desc_to_pci_sysdata(), and > convert current PCI drivers to use helper functions to access fields > in struct msi_desc. > Then it moves msi_list from struct pci_dev into struct device and > refines struct msi_desc. > At last it moves alloc_msi_entry() into kernel/irq/msi.c for reuse. > > Currently msi_desc_to_pci_sysdata() and msi_desc_to_pci_dev() are > implemented as normal functions instead of inlines to avoid header file > inclusion issue. If inlined version is preferred for performance, we could > move all of first_pci_msi_entry, for_each_pci_msi_entry, msi_desc_to_pci_dev > and msi_desc_to_pci_sysdata from linxu/kernel/msi.h into linux/kernel/pci.h. > > This patch set is based on v4.2-rc1 and passes 0day test suite. You > may access the code at: > https://github.com/jiangliu/linux.git msi_desc_v1 Bjorn, this patch series is a prerequisite for proper support of non-pci based MSI. If there are no objections from your side, I'd like to move it through the irq tree so we can build the non-pci MSI stuff on top. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
