[PATCH v2 1/3] gpio: xgene: add support to configure GPIO line as input, output or external IRQ pin

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 30 October 2015 12:41:03 Quan Nguyen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Y Vo <yvo at apm.com> wrote:
> > (...)
> >> +#define XGENE_HWIRQ_TO_GPIO(hwirq)     ((hwirq) + XGENE_GPIO8_IDX)
> >> +#define XGENE_GPIO_TO_HWIRQ(gpio)      ((gpio) - XGENE_GPIO8_IDX)
> >> +#define GIC_IRQ_TO_GPIO_IRQ(hwirq)     ((hwirq) - XGENE_GPIO8_HWIRQ)
> >> +#define GPIO_IRQ_TO_GIC_IRQ(hwirq)     ((hwirq) + XGENE_GPIO8_HWIRQ)
> >
> > I'm a bit uneasy about this, maybe I just don't get it.
> >
> > What is this indexing into "GIC IRQ" that is starting to happen
> > here?
> >
> > The GIC (if that is drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c) has a totally dynamic IRQ
> > translation and the Linux IRQs it is using may change. I am worried
> > that there is some reliance here on Linux IRQ having certain numbers
> > because there is certainly no ABI like that.
> >
> > Is this 0x48 really an index into the *hardware* offset in the GIC?
> >
> > And if it is: why are we not getting this hardware information from the
> > device tree like all other interrupt numbers and offsets?
> >
> > I'm worried about this.
> 
> The SPI40(0x48) through SPI45(0x4D) from GIC are mapped as external
> IRQ0 - IRQ5 in this GPIO block, so it is hardware offset not mapped
> irq number.
> 
> Below is detail:
> 
> + GIC: SPI40 (hwirq=0x48)  <=> SB-GPIO: (hwirq=0) (gpio line 8)
> + GIC: SPI41 (hwirq=0x49)  <=> SB-GPIO: (hwirq=1) (gpio line 9)
> ...
> + GIC: SPI45 (hwirq=0x4D)  <=> SB-GPIO: (hwirq=5) (gpio line 13)
> 
> These defines are to help translating between Gic hardware irq and
> SBGPIO hardware irq number.

But the numbers are already in DT, so don't duplicate them in the
source code but just use irq_of_parse_and_map() to get the parent
irq number.

> >> -       u32 *irq;
> >> +       void __iomem *regs;
> >> +       struct irq_domain *gic_domain;
> >> +       struct irq_domain *irq_domain;
> >
> > And there is some secondary gic_domain here, which is confusing
> > since the GIC does have an IRQ domain too.
> >
> > I think I want a clear explanation to how this GPIO controller interacts
> > with the GIC, and I want it to be part of the patch, as comments in the
> > code and in the commit message (which is way too small for a complex
> > patch like this).
> >
> > Otherwise I have no chance to understand what is really going on here.
> 
> SBGPIO currently is not capable to mask/unmask/... irqs, so these will
> rely on the parent (GIC) instead. To do so, we need keep a parent
> domain reference here "struct irq_domain *gic_domain" so we can find
> correspond parent irq in runtime.

Maybe rename the domain to 'parent_domain' or something like that
to avoid hardcoding any knowledge of the parent IRQ controller being
a GIC. If the same GPIO block gets reused on a PowerPC machine, we
want the driver to just work and not have any ARM specifics in it.

	Arnd