[RFC PATCH 1/6] DRIVERS: IRQCHIP: IRQ-GIC: Add support for routable irqs

[Kumar Gala]

On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Sricharan R wrote:

> In some socs the gic can be preceded by a crossbar IP which
> routes the peripheral interrupts to the gic inputs. The peripheral
> interrupts are associated with a fixed crossbar input line and the
> crossbar routes that to one of the free gic input line.
> 
> The DT entries for peripherals provides the fixed crossbar input line
> as its interrupt number and the mapping code should associate this with
> a free gic input line. This patch adds the support inside the gic irqchip
> to handle such routable irqs. The routable irqs are registered in a linear
> domain. The registered routable domain's callback should be implemented
> to get a free irq and to configure the IP to route it.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt |    5 +++
> arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi                   |    1 +
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                     |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h               |    8 +++-
> 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
> index 3dfb0c0..2d8c680 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
> @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ Optional
>   regions, used when the GIC doesn't have banked registers. The offset is
>   cpu-offset * cpu-nr.
> 
> +- routable-irqs	: Total number of gic irq inputs which are not directly
> +		  connected from the peripherals, but are routed dynamically
> +		  by a crossbar/multiplexer preceding the GIC. The GIC irq
> +		  input line is assigned dynamically when the corresponding
> +		  peripheral's crossbar line is mapped.

arm,routable-irqs

> Example:
> 
> 	intc: interrupt-controller at fff11000 {

- k

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