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

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue May 3 02:50:13 PDT 2016


On 03/05/16 10:38, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> On 03.05.2016 11:34, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 28/04/16 23:15, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'll queue them.
>>
> 
> Marc, thank you in advance, please note that I ask to review/pick up
> only 2/4 for v4.7 ("irqchip: add LPC32xx interrupt controller driver"),
> DT changes are merged through arm-soc and the last 4/4 clean-up can
> be deferred till v4.8.

Right. I'll drop patch 1/4 then.

Thanks,

	M.
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