[PATCH 5/5] irqchip: armada-370-xp: document the overall driver logic

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Thomas,
 
 On mar., oct. 20 2015, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Since the overall logic of the driver to handle the global and per-CPU
> masking of the interrupts is far from trivial, this commit adds a long
> comment detailing how the hardware operates and what strategy the
> driver implements on top of that.

It was really needed!

>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>

Thanks,

Gregory

> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 80 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
> index 888add6..f14cc2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,86 @@
>  #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>  #include <asm/mach/irq.h>
>  
> +/*
> + * Overall diagram of the Armada XP interrupt controller:
> + *
> + *    To CPU 0                 To CPU 1
> + *
> + *       /\                       /\
> + *       ||                       ||
> + * +---------------+        +---------------+
> + * |               |	 |               |
> + * |    per-CPU    |	 |    per-CPU    |
> + * |  mask/unmask  |	 |  mask/unmask  |
> + * |     CPU0      |	 |     CPU1      |
> + * |               |	 |               |
> + * +---------------+	 +---------------+
> + *        /\                       /\
> + *        ||                       ||
> + *        \\_______________________//
> + *                     ||
> + *            +-------------------+
> + *            |                   |
> + *            | Global interrupt  |
> + *            |    mask/unmask    |
> + *            |                   |
> + *            +-------------------+
> + *                     /\
> + *                     ||
> + *               interrupt from
> + *                   device
> + *
> + * The "global interrupt mask/unmask" is modified using the
> + * ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SET_ENABLE_OFFS and
> + * ARMADA_370_XP_INT_CLEAR_ENABLE_OFFS registers, which are relative
> + * to "main_int_base".
> + *
> + * The "per-CPU mask/unmask" is modified using the
> + * ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SET_MASK_OFFS and
> + * ARMADA_370_XP_INT_CLEAR_MASK_OFFS registers, which are relative to
> + * "per_cpu_int_base". This base address points to a special address,
> + * which automatically accesses the registers of the current CPU.
> + *
> + * The per-CPU mask/unmask can also be adjusted using the global
> + * per-interrupt ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CTL register, which we use
> + * to configure interrupt affinity.
> + *
> + * Due to this model, all interrupts need to be mask/unmasked at two
> + * different levels: at the global level and at the per-CPU level.
> + *
> + * This driver takes the following approach to deal with this:
> + *
> + *  - For global interrupts:
> + *
> + *    At ->map() time, a global interrupt is unmasked at the per-CPU
> + *    mask/unmask level. It is therefore unmasked at this level for
> + *    the current CPU, running the ->map() code. This allows to have
> + *    the interrupt unmasked at this level in non-SMP
> + *    configurations. In SMP configurations, the ->set_affinity()
> + *    callback is called, which using the
> + *    ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CTL() readjusts the per-CPU mask/unmask
> + *    for the interrupt.
> + *
> + *    The ->mask() and ->unmask() operations only mask/unmask the
> + *    interrupt at the "global" level.
> + *
> + *    So, a global interrupt is enabled at the per-CPU level as soon
> + *    as it is mapped. At run time, the masking/unmasking takes place
> + *    at the global level.
> + *
> + *  - For per-CPU interrupts
> + *
> + *    At ->map() time, a per-CPU interrupt is unmasked at the global
> + *    mask/unmask level.
> + *
> + *    The ->mask() and ->unmask() operations mask/unmask the interrupt
> + *    at the per-CPU level.
> + *
> + *    So, a per-CPU interrupt is enabled at the global level as soon
> + *    as it is mapped. At run time, the masking/unmasking takes place
> + *    at the per-CPU level.
> + */
> +
>  /* Registers relative to main_int_base */
>  #define ARMADA_370_XP_INT_CONTROL		(0x00)
>  #define ARMADA_370_XP_SW_TRIG_INT_OFFS		(0x04)
> -- 
> 2.6.2
>

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