Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Using hierarchy irqdomian to implement MTK intpol.

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Joe.C wrote:
> From: "Joe.C" <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>
> 
> Here's the first draft of using hierarchy irqdomain to implement MTK intpol
> support. I have tested it and intpol works fine. Before continue, I'd like
> to get your comments. This is based on Jiang's hierarchy irqdomian [1] and
> my mediatek SoC basic support [2].
> 
> Simplified block diagram for interrupt:
> 
>     ---------      ---------
>  ---| CIRQ  |------|ARM GIC|
>  ---|       |------|       |
>  ---|       |------|       |
>  ---|       |------|       |
>  ---|       |------|       |
>     ---------      ---------
>  
> In device tree, interrupt-parent for other devices is cirq, child of gic.
> This describe HW better and allow device to specify polarity as it is sent
> by the device. I'm using interrupt-parent to specify irq domain parent in
> cirq now. Maybe adding another name like 'interrupt-domain-parent' will be
> better.

I leave that to the DT folks.
 
> Currently only set_type is implement in CIRQ, but I think this could extended
> to cover all function gic_arch_extn provided.

Right. Marc, can you have a look at this whether you can see how that
might replace the rest of the arch_extn hackery?

At least the avoidance of the set_type mess looks pretty reasonable.
 
> In order to use hierarchy irq domain, gic can't use legacy irq domain anymore.
> If arm,hierarchy-irq-domain property is specified, GIC will work in hierarchy
> way and all interrupt must be set by device tree.
> 
> One thing worth mention is arg in irq_domain_alloc_irqs. On x86, msi is using
> struct irq_alloc_info, to pass data between irq domain. In irq_create_of_mapping(),
> of_phandle_args is used. All allocs in irq_domain chain will need to use same
> interrupt-cells formats.

Right, but we leave that to the architecture implementation. It needs
to be consistent within an architecture, so we should change the "void
*arg" to a well defined type. For OF architectures this would be
of_phandle_args, other architectures can define their own struct type
which allows to transport data between the domains. That ensures
compile time type checking.

Thanks,

	tglx