Re: [PATCH V2 03/19] irqchip: crossbar: Skip some irqs from getting mapped to crossbar

From: Sricharan R
Date: Fri Jun 13 2014 - 02:40:14 EST


Hi Jason,

On Thursday 12 June 2014 07:37 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 06:49:17PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> On Thursday 12 June 2014 06:21 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 05:23:11PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
>>>> From: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> When, in the system due to varied reasons, interrupts might be unusable
>>>> due to hardware behavior, but register maps do exist, then those interrupts
>>>> should be skipped while mapping irq to crossbars.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@xxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Tony, have you applied these somewhere already?
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>> 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
>>>> index 51d4b87..847f6e3 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
>>>> @@ -13,11 +13,13 @@
>>>> #include <linux/io.h>
>>>> #include <linux/of_address.h>
>>>> #include <linux/of_irq.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/of_device.h>
>>>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>>>> #include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h>
>>>>
>>>> #define IRQ_FREE -1
>>>> #define IRQ_RESERVED -2
>>>> +#define IRQ_SKIP -3
>>>> #define GIC_IRQ_START 32
>>>>
>>>> /*
>>>> @@ -34,6 +36,16 @@ struct crossbar_device {
>>>> void (*write) (int, int);
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> +/**
>>>> + * struct crossbar_data: Platform specific data
>>>> + * @irqs_unused: array of irqs that cannot be used because of hw erratas
>>>> + * @size: size of the irqs_unused array
>>>> + */
>>>> +struct crossbar_data {
>>>> + const uint *irqs_unused;
>>>> + const uint size;
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> static struct crossbar_device *cb;
>>>>
>>>> static inline void crossbar_writel(int irq_no, int cb_no)
>>>> @@ -119,10 +131,12 @@ const struct irq_domain_ops routable_irq_domain_ops = {
>>>> .xlate = crossbar_domain_xlate
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> -static int __init crossbar_of_init(struct device_node *node)
>>>> +static int __init crossbar_of_init(struct device_node *node,
>>>> + const struct crossbar_data *data)
>>>> {
>>>> int i, size, max, reserved = 0, entry;
>>>> const __be32 *irqsr;
>>>> + const int *irqsk = NULL;
>>>>
>>>> cb = kzalloc(sizeof(*cb), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>
>>>> @@ -194,6 +208,22 @@ static int __init crossbar_of_init(struct device_node *node)
>>>> reserved += size;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> + /* Skip the ones marked as unused */
>>>> + if (data) {
>>>> + irqsk = data->irqs_unused;
>>>> + size = data->size;
>>>> +
>>>> + for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
>>>> + entry = irqsk[i];
>>>> +
>>>> + if (entry > max) {
>>>> + pr_err("Invalid skip entry\n");
>>>> + goto err3;
>>>> + }
>>>> + cb->irq_map[entry] = IRQ_SKIP;
>>>> + }
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> register_routable_domain_ops(&routable_irq_domain_ops);
>>>> return 0;
>>>>
>>>> @@ -208,18 +238,27 @@ err1:
>>>> return -ENOMEM;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> +/* irq number 10 cannot be used because of hw bug */
>>>> +int dra_irqs_unused[] = { 10 };
>>>> +struct crossbar_data cb_dra_data = { dra_irqs_unused,
>>>> + ARRAY_SIZE(dra_irqs_unused) };
>>>> +
>>>> static const struct of_device_id crossbar_match[] __initconst = {
>>>> - { .compatible = "ti,irq-crossbar" },
>>>> + { .compatible = "ti,irq-crossbar", .data = &cb_dra_data },
>>>> {}
>>>> };
>>>
>>> This is a bug in all implementations of this IP? Or, a specific
>>> SoC's implementation? Would this be better expressed in the dts via a
>>> property? Can we expect future implementations to be fixed?
>>>
>>> thx,
>>>
>>> Jason.
>> Infact this and PATCH#10 should be merged. I will change that.
>>
>> So in Socs's (2 so far) that do have a crossbar, some irqs are mapped
>> through a crossbar and some are directly wired to the irqchip.
>> These 'unused irqs' are those which are directly wired but they still
>> have a crossbar register. Their routing cannot be changed. So this
>> is not really expected usage of the crossbar hw ip. We initially thought
>> having a dts property separately for this, but took this path to avoid
>> loading the dts with additional bindings which may not be generic.
>
> How do you plan to handle future SoCs with this IP and possibly
> different hard-wired irqs?
Yes, that would require adding a new compatible in the above list and dts.
So if adding a new binding in the dts would be cleaner, then i will change
it that way.

Regards,
Sricharan

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