[PATCH 2/3] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization
Rob Herring
robherring2 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 17:39:59 EDT 2011
On 06/13/2011 11:53 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:22:20AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>
>> This adds gic initialization using device tree data. An example device tree
>> binding looks like this:
>>
>> intc: interrupt-controller at fff11000 {
>> compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-gic";
>> #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>> interrupt-controller;
>> reg = <0xfff11000 0x1000>,
>> <0xfff10100 0x100>;
>> irq-start = <29>;
>> };
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm/common/gic.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/gic.h | 1 +
>> 3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..491a503
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
>> +* ARM Generic Interrupt Controller
>> +
>> +Some ARM cores have an interrupt controller called GIC. The ARM GIC
>> +representation in the device tree should be done as under:-
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +
>> +- compatible : should be one of:
>> + "arm,cortex-a9-gic"
>> + "arm,arm11mp-gic"
>> + "nvidia,tegra250-gic"
>
> This doesn't match the implementation in this patch. The
> implementation only matches against the cortex-a9 gic.
>
I was just trying to make the doc somewhat complete although I'm missing
msm.
> Also, I expect that the gic is different between the arm,cortex-a9-gic
> and the arm,arm11-mp-gic. Is the tegra also a different gic
> implementation? Or can it be expected that the tegra gic will simply
> claim compatibility with the a9 gic?
>
They are all using the same code today, so yes thay are all compatible.
I'm not even sure that tegra is different than standard A9. I pulled
that from your tree. There are some h/w differences in terms of
powergating of the GIC or not and when. How to handle that is still
being hashed out a bit.
>> +- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
>> +- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
>> + interrupt source. The type shall be a <u32> and the value shall be 1.
>> +- reg : Specifies base physical address(s) and size of the GIC registers. The
>> + first 2 values are the GIC distributor register base and size. The 2nd 2
>> + values are the GIC cpu interface register base and size.
>> +- irq-start : The first actual interrupt that is connected to h/w.
>
> Drop irq-start. That's a Linux internal implementation detail, and
> Linux can easily handle dynamic assignment of irq ranges.
>
> If board support code still has special needs on specific platforms,
> then we can manually override the assigned range for that specific
> platform only as a short term workaround.
>
It's really about skipping the SGI interrupts and unused PPIs which is
h/w specific. That isn't really necessary AFAICT, but I'm not too sure
why it was even done in the first place.
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +
>> +intc: interrupt-controller at fff11000 {
>> + compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-gic";
>> + #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>> + interrupt-controller;
>> + reg = <0xfff11000 0x1000>,
>> + <0xfff10100 0x100>;
>> + irq-start = <29>;
>> +};
>> +
>> +
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/common/gic.c b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
>> index 4ddd0a6..024414d 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/common/gic.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
>> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
>> #include <linux/smp.h>
>> #include <linux/cpumask.h>
>> #include <linux/io.h>
>> +#include <linux/of.h>
>> +#include <linux/of_address.h>
>>
>> #include <asm/irq.h>
>> #include <asm/mach/irq.h>
>> @@ -401,3 +403,37 @@ void gic_raise_softirq(const struct cpumask *mask, unsigned int irq)
>> writel_relaxed(map << 16 | irq, gic_data[0].dist_base + GIC_DIST_SOFTINT);
>> }
>> #endif
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
>> +static struct of_device_id gic_ids[] __initdata = {
>> + { .compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-gic" },
>> +};
>> +
>> +void __init gic_of_init(void)
>> +{
>> + struct device_node *np;
>> + void __iomem *cpu_base;
>> + void __iomem *dist_base;
>> + __u32 irq_start = 16;
>> + const __be32 *val;
>> +
>> + np = of_find_matching_node(NULL, gic_ids);
>> + if (!np)
>> + panic("unable to find compatible gic node in dtb\n");
>> +
>> + dist_base = of_iomap(np, 0);
>> + if (!dist_base)
>> + panic("unable to map gic dist registers\n");
>> +
>> + cpu_base = of_iomap(np, 1);
>> + if (!cpu_base)
>> + panic("unable to map gic cpu registers\n");
>> +
>> + val = of_get_property(np, "irq-start", NULL);
>> + if (val != NULL)
>> + irq_start = of_read_ulong(val, 1);
>> + of_node_put(np);
>> +
>> + gic_init(0, irq_start, dist_base, cpu_base);
>
> This can only handle a single gic in a system. This is a start, but
> multiple interrupt controllers must be supported, like for the Samsung
> socs.
Huh? Only Realview boards have a 2nd level controller. The Samsung
boards are using the VIC. Are you referring to something not in mainline
yet?
>
> I've been toying with writing some code that walks the interrupt
> controller tree, finds the root controller, and then sets up each
> child controller as a cascade.
>
That would be interesting especially if gpio controllers were included.
It's probably overkill for just the few platforms that have multiple GICs.
Rob
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