linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: cherryview: fix issues caused by dynamic gpio irqs mapping

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Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2017 09:42:49 +0300
From:   Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Chris Gorman <chrisjohgorman@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: cherryview: fix issues caused by dynamic gpio
 irqs mapping

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:00:49PM -0500, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> New GPIO IRQs are allocated and mapped dynamically by default when
> GPIO IRQ infrastructure is used by cherryview-pinctrl driver.
> This causes issues on some Intel platforms [1][2] with broken BIOS which
> hardcodes Linux IRQ numbers in their ACPI tables.
> 
> On such platforms cherryview-pinctrl driver should allocate and map all
> GPIO IRQs at probe time.
> Side effect - "Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ%d, assuming pre-allocated\n"
> can be seen at boot log.
> 
> NOTE. It still may fail if boot sequence will changed and some interrupt
> controller will be probed before cherryview-pinctrl which will shift Linux IRQ
> numbering (expected with CONFIG_SPARCE_IRQ enabled).
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194945
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/28/153
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
> Cc: Chris Gorman <chrisjohgorman@...il.com>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com> 
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
> Reported-by: Chris Gorman <chrisjohgorman@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>

Looks reasonable to me. Thanks for taking care of this!

Chris, can you try if this fixes the issue and provide your Tested-by?