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SubjectRe: [EXTERNAL] [tip: x86/apic] x86/io_apic: Cleanup trigger/polarity helpers
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On Wed, Nov 11 2020 at 08:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 23:48 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> + * IRQCHIP_MSI_EXTID The MSI message created for this chip can
>> + * have an otherwise forbidden extended ID
>
> If we're going to do that then we could ditch the separate
> iommu_compose_msi_msg() function too, right?
>
> But actually I'd be more inclined to fix this differently, in a way
> that doesn't still leave AMD's iommu_init_intcapxt() having to set use
> irq_set_affinity_notifier() to update its own registers. That's icky.
>
> Given that this is *its* irqdomain in the first place, it should just
> sit at ->set_affinity() for itself, and call its parent as usual
> without having to use a notifier.
>
> We should also leave it using the basic PCI MSI support in the case
> where the IOMMU doesn't have XTSUP support. It doesn't need its own
> irqdomain for that.

Looking at it now with brain awake, the XTSUP stuff is pretty much
the same as DMAR, which I didn't realize yesterday. The affinity
notifier muck is not needed when we have a write_msg() function which
twiddles the bits into those other locations.

Thanks,

tglx


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