Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-next] xen/arm: irq: Don't use _IRQ_PENDING when handling host interrupt

[Andrii Anisov <andrii.anisov@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 28.01.19 17:59, Julien Grall wrote:
> While SPIs are shared between CPU, it is not possible to receive the
> same interrupts on a different CPU while the interrupt is in active
> state. The deactivation of the interrupt is done at the end of the
> handling.
>
> This means the _IRQ_PENDING logic is unecessary on Arm as a same
> interrupt can never come up while in the loop. So remove it to
> simplify the interrupt handle code.
What about _IRQ_PENDING macro itself?
Any reasons to not eliminate it?

> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>   xen/arch/arm/irq.c | 32 ++++++++++----------------------
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> index c51cf333ce..3877657a52 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ int request_irq(unsigned int irq, unsigned int irqflags,
>   void do_IRQ(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, unsigned int irq, int is_fiq)
>   {
>       struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
> +    struct irqaction *action;
>   
>       perfc_incr(irqs);
>   
> @@ -242,35 +243,22 @@ void do_IRQ(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, unsigned int irq, int is_fiq)
>           goto out_no_end;
>       }
>   
> -    set_bit(_IRQ_PENDING, &desc->status);
> -
> -    /*
> -     * Since we set PENDING, if another processor is handling a different
> -     * instance of this same irq, the other processor will take care of it.
> -     */
> -    if ( test_bit(_IRQ_DISABLED, &desc->status) ||
> -         test_bit(_IRQ_INPROGRESS, &desc->status) )
> +    if ( test_bit(_IRQ_DISABLED, &desc->status) )
>           goto out;
>   
>       set_bit(_IRQ_INPROGRESS, &desc->status);
>   
> -    while ( test_bit(_IRQ_PENDING, &desc->status) )
> -    {
> -        struct irqaction *action;
> +    action = desc->action;
>   
> -        clear_bit(_IRQ_PENDING, &desc->status);
> -        action = desc->action;
> +    spin_unlock_irq(&desc->lock);
>   
> -        spin_unlock_irq(&desc->lock);
> -
> -        do
> -        {
> -            action->handler(irq, action->dev_id, regs);
> -            action = action->next;
> -        } while ( action );
> +    do
> +    {
> +        action->handler(irq, action->dev_id, regs);
> +        action = action->next;
> +    } while ( action );
>   
> -        spin_lock_irq(&desc->lock);
> -    }
> +    spin_lock_irq(&desc->lock);
>   
>       clear_bit(_IRQ_INPROGRESS, &desc->status);
>   
--
Sincerely,
Andrii Anisov.

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