Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediatek CIRQ interrupt controller

From: Matthias Brugger
Date: Wed May 10 2017 - 05:42:29 EST




On 07/04/17 11:54, Youlin Pei wrote:
On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 09:52 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 07/04/17 09:06, Youlin Pei wrote:
In Mediatek SOCs, the CIRQ is a low power interrupt controller designed to
works outside MCUSYS which comprises with Cortex-Ax cores,CCI and GIC.

The CIRQ controller is integrated in between MCUSYS and interrupt sources
as the second level interrupt controller. The external interrupts which
outside MCUSYS will feed through CIRQ then bypass to GIC.

In normal mode(where MCUSYS is active), CIRQ is disabled and interrupts
will directly issue to MCUSYS. When MCUSYS enters sleep mode, where GIC
is power downed. CIRQ will be enabled and monitor all edge trigger
interrupts(only edge trigger interrupts will be lost in this scenario).
When an edge interrupt is triggered, CIRQ will record the status and
generated a pulse signal to GIC when flush command is executed.

With CIRQ, MCUSYS can be completely turned off to improve the system
power consumption without losing interrupts.

change in v4:
1. add some comment to explain CIRQ suspend callback.
2. rebase on 4.11

Hi Youlin,

I'm happy to take the first two patches through the irq tree. How do we
deal with the third one? It seems to me that it'd be better routed via
armsoc.

Let me know what you and Matthias want to do.

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your review. I think that driver and dtsi can merged
separately.

Hi Matthias,
Could you help to review the dtsi patch?

queued now for v4.12-next/dts32
sorry for the late answer.

Matthias

Thanks a lot!


Thanks,

M.