pciehp's IRQ handler queues up a work item for each event signaled by
the hardware. A more modern alternative is to let a long running
kthread service the events. The IRQ handler's sole job is then to check
whether the IRQ originated from the device in question, acknowledge its
receipt to the hardware to quiesce the interrupt and wake up the kthread.
One benefit is reduced latency to handle the IRQ, which is a necessity
for realtime environments. Another benefit is that we can make pciehp
simpler and more robust by handling events synchronously in process
context, rather than asynchronously by queueing up work items. pciehp's
usage of work items is a historic artifact, it predates the introduction
of threaded IRQ handlers by two years. (The former was introduced in
2007 with commit 5d386e1ac4 ("pciehp: Event handling rework"), the
latter in 2009 with commit 3aa551c9b4 ("genirq: add threaded interrupt
handler support").)
Convert pciehp to threaded IRQ handling by retrieving the pending events
in pciehp_isr(), saving them for later consumption by the thread handler
pciehp_ist() and clearing them in the Slot Status register.
By clearing the Slot Status (and thereby acknowledging the events) in
pciehp_isr(), we can avoid requesting the IRQ with IRQF_ONESHOT, which
would have the unpleasant side effect of starving devices sharing the
IRQ until pciehp_ist() has finished.
pciehp_isr() does not count how many times each event occurred, but
merely records the fact *that* an event occurred. If the same event
occurs a second time before pciehp_ist() is woken, that second event
will not be recorded separately, which is problematic according to
commit fad214b0aa ("PCI: pciehp: Process all hotplug events before
looking for new ones") because we may miss removal of a card in-between
two back-to-back insertions. We're about to make pciehp_ist() resilient
to missed events. The present commit regresses the driver's behavior
temporarily in order to separate the changes into reviewable chunks.
This doesn't affect regular slow-motion hotplug, only plug-unplug-plug
operations that happen in a timespan shorter than wakeup of the IRQ
thread.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mayurkumar Patel <mayurkumar.patel@intel.com>
Cc: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
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