[PATCH v2] irqchip: Add support for ARMv7-M's NVIC

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Thomas,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 02:20:26PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> This interrupt controller is found on Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 machines.
> 
> Support for this controller appeared in Catalin's Cortex tree based on
> 2.6.33 but was nearly completely rewritten.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> changes since v1:
> 
>  - fixed base address to match documentation
>    So reading ICTR (which isn't in the nvic's address range) uses a new #define
>    in asm/v7m.h which isn't in mainline yet. That's ugly but I don't have a
>    better idea how to solve it without platform code.
>  - s/NVIC_IPRI/NVIC_IPR/ to match documentation
>  - use pr_warn instead of WARN/WARN_ON
>  - do proper error handling, don't use IS_ERR_VALUE
>  - drop the wrong skipping of the 16 system exceptions. They are not counted in
>    ICTR_INTLINESNUM.
>  - dynamically allocate chip data
>  - drop the irq_domain* member from chip data as it's only used in the probe
>    callback
>  - change compatible string to arm,armv7m-nvic
>  - drop a few unused #includes, use some linux/ #includes instead of asm/ ones
>  - change indention to please tglx' eyes
> 
> A failure to probe the nvic makes the machine unresponsive. Does this 
> have any implications on how the driver should behave when something
> goes wrong? Another issue is that up to now the exception handling
> simply calls asm_do_IRQ(16, ..) for the first nvic interrupt. So there
> is a mismatch if irq_alloc_descs_from(16, ...) doesn't return 16. I
> added error handling for that assuming that's fine for now, but in the long run
> a better fix would be nice. What is the preferred approach to fix that? Use a
> global variable that holds the irq_base? Or should I use a mapping function
> instead?
I didn't hear back from you since I sent out v2. Do you still have some
concerns?

I intend to put the Cortex-M3 stuff into next. Assuming it's just lack
of time on your side that stops you from commenting, would you mind if I
put this patch into next, too?

Best regards
Uwe

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