[RFC 13/14] irq_domain: Remove 'new' irq_domain in favour of the ppc one
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Jan 12 21:20:34 EST 2012
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:31:28PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Adding lakml...
>
> On 01/11/2012 03:27 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Grant,
> >>
> >> On 01/11/2012 02:22 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> >>> This patch removes the simplistic implementation of irq_domains and enables
> >>> the powerpc infrastructure for all irq_domain users. The powerpc
> >>> infrastructure includes support for complex mappings between Linux and
> >>> hardware irq numbers, and can manage allocation of irq_descs.
> >>>
> >>> This patch also converts the few users of irq_domain_add()/irq_domain_del()
> >>> to call irq_domain_add_legacy() instead.
> >>
> >> So what is the non-legacy way? Legacy implies we don't want to do it
> >> that way. I guess until we remove all non-DT platforms with GIC we are
> >> stuck with legacy. That seems like it could be a ways out until we get
> >> there.
> >
> > Non-legacy is letting the irq_domain manage the irq_desc allocations.
> > Some of the controllers will be easy to convert, some will be more
> > difficult. The primary thing that really blocks getting away from the
> > legacy method is anything that expects hardcoded #defined irq numbers.
> > The goal is to convert all users over to the linear revmap method.
> >
>
> So I gave this a spin on highbank. I ran into a couple problems.
>
> I had to revert "irqdesc: Consolidate irq reservation logic" which is in
> your branch, but not this series. irq_alloc_desc_from was returning -EEXIST.
Gah, I flubbed that patch too. Try this on top of it:
---
diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
index 8a9e2ec..11feb2f 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
@@ -375,6 +375,9 @@ __irq_reserve_irqs(int irq, unsigned int from, unsigned int cnt)
}
bitmap_set(allocated_irqs, start, cnt);
+ mutex_unlock(&sparse_irq_lock);
+ return start;
+
err:
mutex_unlock(&sparse_irq_lock);
return ret;
@@ -408,7 +411,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__irq_alloc_descs);
*/
int irq_reserve_irqs(unsigned int from, unsigned int cnt)
{
- return __irq_reserve_irqs(from, from, cnt);
+ int start = __irq_reserve_irqs(from, from, cnt);
+ return start < 0 ? start : 0;
}
/**
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