[PATCH 00/12] genirq: Move irqchip runtime PM over to irq domain

Bartosz Golaszewski brgl at bgdev.pl
Tue Feb 8 03:13:19 PST 2022


On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 1:03 PM Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Our irq_chip data structure currently suffers from two problems:
>
> (1) the 'name' field is often dynamically populated with a reference
>     to the underlying HW (DT node dame, for example)
>
> (2) the 'parent_device' which is used to implement runtime PM is also
>     dynamically populated
>
> (3) there is at least one instance of a subsystem messing with the
>     internals of irq_chip structures (gpiochip_set_irq_hooks is
>     what I know about)
>
> These things mean that although the primary use of irq_chip is to only
> contain function pointers and other *static* information, the above
> two fields result in these structures being copied in a number of
> drivers. Eventually, it would be much better if the various drivers
> would use irq_chip as an 'ops' data structure (potentially made
> read-only), and keep the dynamic information somewhere more suitable.
>
> For (2) we already have the irqdomain structure that is designed to
> deal with the context in which interrupts are used, and it makes sense
> to move the 'parent_device' field over to this structure. This is what
> this small series is doing, with some minor cleanup on the way.
>
> (1) and (3) will be dealt in separate series (and I don't have a good
> solution for (3) yet).
>
> Thanks,
>
>         M.
>
> Marc Zyngier (12):
>   genirq: Allow the PM device to originate from irq domain
>   irqchip/gic: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   irqchip/renesas-intc-gpio: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   irqchip/renesas-irqc: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   irqchip/imx-intmux: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   gpio: mt7621: Kill parent_device usage
>   gpio: omap: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   gpio: rcar: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   gpio: tpmx86: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   pinctrl: npcm: Fix broken references to chip->parent_device
>   pinctrl: starfive: Move PM device over to irq domain
>   genirq: Kill irq_chip::parent_device
>
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-mt7621.c                |  1 -
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c                  |  7 ++++---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-rcar.c                  |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-tqmx86.c                |  3 ++-
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                 | 12 +++++------
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-imx-intmux.c          |  8 +++-----
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-intc-irqpin.c |  3 ++-
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-irqc.c        |  3 ++-
>  drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c | 25 +++++++++++------------
>  drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-starfive.c        |  3 ++-
>  include/linux/irq.h                       |  2 --
>  include/linux/irqdomain.h                 | 10 +++++++++
>  kernel/irq/chip.c                         | 20 +++++++++++++-----
>  13 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>

The changes for GPIO are small so:

Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl>

You can take it through your tree and if there are any conflicts, I'll
just ask for an immutable branch.

Bart



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