[PATCH v2 2/4] irqchip: add LPC32xx interrupt controller driver

[Vladimir Zapolskiy]

On 26.04.2016 16:41, Sylvain Lemieux wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 04:00 +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>> The change adds improved support of NXP LPC32xx MIC, SIC1 and SIC2
>> interrupt controllers.
>>
>> This is a list of new features in comparison to the legacy driver:
>> * irq types are taken from device tree settings, no more need to
>>   hardcode them,
>> * old driver is based on irq_domain_add_legacy, which causes problems
>>   with handling MIC hardware interrupt 0 produced by SIC1,
>> * there is one driver for MIC, SIC1 and SIC2, no more need to handle
>>   them separately, e.g. have two separate handlers for SIC1 and SIC2,
>> * the driver does not have any dependencies on hardcoded register
>>   offsets,
>> * the driver is much simpler for maintenance,
>> * SPARSE_IRQS option is supported.
>>
>> Legacy LPC32xx interrupt controller driver was broken since commit
>> 76ba59f8366f ("genirq: Add irq_domain-aware core IRQ handler"), which
>> requires a private interrupt handler, otherwise any SIC1 generated
>> interrupt (mapped to MIC hwirq 0) breaks the kernel with the message
>> "unexpected IRQ trap at vector 00".
>>
>> The change disables compilation of a legacy driver found at
>> arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/irq.c, the file will be removed in a separate
>> commit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com>
>> ---
>> Changes from v1 to v2:
>> * added chained_irq_{enter,exit} for SIC chained handler,
>> * use {writel,readl}_relaxed flavour of io access functions,
>> * changed anchor data type to access iomem from struct irq_domain
>>   to private struct lpc32xx_irq_chip,
>> * do not read irq status register twice on every irq event,
>> * resource deallocation fixes on error path of irqchip driver init,
>> * removed handling of "interrupt-controller-name" property, name
>>   is constructed from mic/sic type and controller's physical address,
>> * minor improvements (renames, __ffs instead of ffs, etc.)
>>
>> Many kudos to Marc for review of v1.
>>
>>  arch/arm/Kconfig                |   2 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/phy3250.c |   1 -
>>  drivers/irqchip/Makefile        |   1 +
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-lpc32xx.c   | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-lpc32xx.c
>>
> I tested the driver on a custom LPC3250 board; I was having at
> least 1 interrupt generated from each source (MIC/SIC1/SIC2).
> 
> Tested-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco at gmail.com>
> 

Thomas, Marc, Jason, Russell,

in your opinion would it be still possible to accept this change v2 2/4 for v4.7?

Thank you.

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With best wishes,
Vladimir