[PATCH 3/9] irq: convert generic-chip to use irq_domain

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Dec 14 16:26:11 EST 2011


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/14/2011 03:14 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>>
>>> Add irq domain support to irq generic-chip. This enables users of
>>> generic-chip to support dynamic irq assignment needed for DT interrupt
>>> binding. Users must be converted to use irq_data.hwirq for determining
>>> local interrupt numbers rather than using the Linux irq number.
>>>
>>> irq_base is kept for now as there are a few users of it. Once they
>>> are converted to use the irq domain, it can be removed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>>> ---
>>>  include/linux/irq.h       |    2 +-
>>>  kernel/irq/Kconfig        |    1 +
>>>  kernel/irq/generic-chip.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h
>>> index bff29c5..9ba8a30 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/irq.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/irq.h
>>> @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ struct irq_chip_generic {
>>>        raw_spinlock_t          lock;
>>>        void __iomem            *reg_base;
>>>        unsigned int            irq_base;
>>> -       unsigned int            irq_cnt;
>>> +       struct irq_domain       *domain;
>>
>> Instead of making domain a pointer, why not embed the structure inside
>> irq_chip_generic?  I don't see a reason for keeping it separate.
>>
>
> There is a circular header dependency between irq.h and irq_domain.h.
> Maybe I just need to put the include of irq_domain.h just above here
> rather than the top of the file.

Yes, try that.  I'd rather get the dependency problem sorted out.
Alternately, problematic bit of irq_domain.h can be moved to another
header.

g.



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