Re: [PATCH dovetail v5 00/12] riscv: Add dovetail support

Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.xenomai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 23.03.26 16:53, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Thomas, irqchip driver maintainer, series at
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]]
> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:36:45PM +0100, Tobias Schaffner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this series introduces initial support for Dovetail on RISC-V.
> 
> 02/12 mentions "the Dovetail/IRQ pipeline model used on other
> architectures," but my quick grep for dovetail and IRQ pipelining
> didn't find anything.
> 

These patches are not targeting the upstream kernel.

I wonder how you got aware of them as I only see the Xenomai list in CC.

Jan

>> Feedback, suggestions, and especially reviews are very welcome.
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>>  * Disable independent irq/softirq stack usage when pipelining
>>  * Drop KVM changes as long as they can not be properly tested
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>>  * Rework trap handling
>>
>> Changes since v3:
>>  * Included the IRQ pipelining patches to have all riscv specific
>>    patches included
>>  * Rebased to dovetail/v6.18.y-dovetail-rebase
>>  * Merged most of the fixes
>>  * Fixed IRQ Stack handling and enabled IRQ_STACKS again
>>
>> Changes since v4:
>>  * Rebased to dovetail/v7.0.y-dovetail-rebase
>>  * Applied suggestions from the last patch set
>>  * Added starfive-visionfive2 board support
>>  * Introduced raw console device based on sbi debug console
>>  * Reworked pipelined irq handling
>>
>> Best,
>> Tobias
>>
>> Tobias Schaffner (12):
>>   riscv: introduce raw console device
>>   riscv: irq_pipeline: add IRQ pipelining core
>>   riscv: irq_pipeline: enable hard IRQs during in-band trap handling
>>   irqchip/riscv-aplic-direct: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   irqchip/irq-riscv-aplic-msi: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   irqchip/irq-riscv-imsic-platform: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   irqchip/irq-riscv-intc: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   irqchip/irq-sifive-plic: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   clocksource/timer-riscv: irq_pipeline: enable pipelined clock events
>>   pinctrl: starfive: irq_pipeline: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   pci: plda: irq_pipeline: enable pipelined interrupt control
>>   riscv: dovetail: add core support
>>
>>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                            |   3 +
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/dovetail.h             |  23 ++
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/irq_pipeline.h         | 145 +++++++++++++
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/irqflags.h             |  32 ++-
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h          |   2 +
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/smp.h                  |   7 +
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h              |   6 +
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h          |  17 ++
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                    |   2 +
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/irq_pipeline.c              |  26 +++
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/kernel_mode_vector.c        |   2 +-
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/raw_printk.c                |  33 +++
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/sbi-ipi.c                   |  12 +-
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c                       |  55 ++++-
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c                   |   2 +-
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c                     | 202 ++++++++++++++++--
>>  arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c                    |   5 +-
>>  arch/riscv/mm/context.c                       |  20 +-
>>  arch/riscv/mm/fault.c                         |  29 ++-
>>  drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c             |  11 +-
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-aplic-direct.c      |   3 +-
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-aplic-msi.c         |   3 +-
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-imsic-platform.c    |   4 +-
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c              |   2 +
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c             |  10 +-
>>  drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c  |   2 +
>>  .../starfive/pinctrl-starfive-jh7110.c        |   2 +-
>>  .../starfive/pinctrl-starfive-jh7110.h        |   2 +-
>>  28 files changed, 593 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/dovetail.h
>>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/irq_pipeline.h
>>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/irq_pipeline.c
>>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/raw_printk.c
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.43.0
>>

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