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

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 08:56:41 EST 2011


Shawn,

On 12/15/2011 07:39 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 11:55 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:25:20PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:28:52AM -0600, Rob Herring 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>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
>>>
>> Sorry, I have to take that tag back after I correct my test setup.
>> It does not work for imx5 TZIC case, because the following change
>> I suggested before is missed.
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c b/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
>> index eb763f7..2a2aac1 100644
>> --- a/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
>> +++ b/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
>> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ void irq_domain_add(struct irq_domain *domain)
>>                         return;
>>                 }
>>                 d->domain = domain;
>> -               d->hwirq = hwirq;
>> +               d->hwirq = hwirq - domain->hwirq_base;
> 
> This is a problem. It entirely defeats the point of hwirq_base and it
> would break the GIC. We need to fix this in the generic irq chip.
> 

I think I found a fix. Can you try 's/d->hwirq/(d->hwirq % 32)/' in
generic-chip.c.

Rob



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