Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:07:59 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
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        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] ACPI, PCI, IRQ: assign ISA IRQ directly during
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 08:39:30PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:21:02PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > The penalty determination of ISA IRQ goes through 4 paths.
> > 1. assign PCI_USING during power up via acpi_irq_penalty_init.
> > 2. update the penalty with acpi_penalize_isa_irq function based on the
> > active parameter.
> > 3. kernel command line penalty update via acpi_irq_penalty_update function.
> > 4. increment the penalty as USING right after the IRQ is assign to PCI.
> > 
> > acpi_penalize_isa_irq and acpi_irq_penalty_update functions get called
> > before the ACPI subsystem is started.
> > 
> > These API need to bypass the acpi_irq_get_penalty function.
> 
> I don't mind this patch, but the changelog doesn't tell me what's
> broken and why we need this fix.  Apparently acpi_irq_get_penalty()
> doesn't work before ACPI is initialized, but I don't see *why* it
> wouldn't work.
> 
> However, I see one bug it *does* fix: we do not store the SCI penalty
> in the acpi_isa_irq_penalty[] table because acpi_isa_irq_penalty[]
> only holds ISA IRQ penalties, and there's no guarantee that the SCI is
> an ISA IRQ.  But prior to this patch, we added in the SCI penalty to
> the acpi_isa_irq_penalty[] entry when the SCI was an ISA IRQ, which
> makes acpi_irq_get_penalty() return the wrong thing.  Consider:
> 
>   Initially     acpi_isa_irq_penalty[9] = 0.
>   Assume        sci_interrupt = 9.
>   Then          acpi_irq_get_penalty(9) returns X.
>   If we call    acpi_penalize_isa_irq(9, 1),
>   it sets       acpi_isa_irq_penalty[9] = X,
>   and now       acpi_irq_get_penalty(9) returns X + X.

Oops, I forgot the penalty we *intended* to add with
acpi_penalize_isa_irq().  It's really like this, where X is the SCI
penalty and Y is the part added by acpi_penalize_isa_irq():

  Initially     acpi_isa_irq_penalty[9] = 0.
  Assume        sci_interrupt = 9.
  Then          acpi_irq_get_penalty(9) returns X.
  If we call    acpi_penalize_isa_irq(9, 1),
  it sets       acpi_isa_irq_penalty[9] = X + Y,
  and now       acpi_irq_get_penalty(9) returns X + X + Y.

At the end, acpi_irq_get_penalty(9) *should* return X + Y, but instead
it returns X + X + Y, i.e., the SCI penalty is included twice.