linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization

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Message-ID: <20110926220013.GF9194@gallagher>
Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:00:13 +0100
From:	Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Cc:	Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, marc.zyngier@....com,
	thomas.abraham@...aro.org, b-cousson@...com, shawn.guo@...aro.org,
	dave.martin@...aro.org, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:32:17PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 04:11 PM, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:49:11PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> >> On 09/26/2011 02:57 PM, Jamie Iles wrote:
> >>> Hi Rob,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:24:04PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>>> +int __init gic_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *parent)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +	void __iomem *cpu_base;
> >>>> +	void __iomem *dist_base;
> >>>> +	int irq;
> >>>> +	struct irq_domain *domain = &gic_data[gic_cnt].domain;
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	if (WARN_ON(!node))
> >>>> +		return -ENODEV;
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	dist_base = of_iomap(node, 0);
> >>>> +	WARN(!dist_base, "unable to map gic dist registers\n");
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	cpu_base = of_iomap(node, 1);
> >>>> +	WARN(!cpu_base, "unable to map gic cpu registers\n");
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	domain->nr_irq = gic_irq_count(dist_base);
> >>>> +	/* subtract off SGIs. Also subtract off PPIs for secondary GICs */
> >>>> +	if (parent)
> >>>> +		domain->nr_irq -= 32;
> >>>> +	else
> >>>> +		domain->nr_irq -= 16;
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	domain->irq_base = irq_alloc_descs(-1, 16, domain->nr_irq, numa_node_id());
> >>>
> >>> The way I understand irq_alloc_descs() (probably not very well) is that 
> >>> having the irq parameter < 0 and the from parameter 16 means that it 
> >>> needs to find domain->nr_irq descs starting from at least 16.  But if 
> >>> the base is greater than 16, does this still work with the gic entry 
> >>> macros as they are?
> >>
> >> No, but that would only happen if a platform calls irq_alloc_descs prior
> >> to this code. The root controller must be initialized first (for other
> >> reasons as well). There are no calls to irq_alloc_descs in arch/arm.
> >>
> >> With the MULTI_IRQ GIC support Marc Z is working on, we could make the
> >> GIC irq mapping be completely dynamic. Although, there's probably not
> >> much reason to do so for the root controller.
> > 
> > OK, that makes sense.  I think that if you were to do 
> > irq_alloc_descs(16, 16, domain->nr_irqs, num_node_id()) then that will 
> > guarantee the descriptors start from 16 (if they are available) which is 
> > probably nicer.
> > 
> That would break secondary GICs though as it would always fail. For
> secondary GIC, we skip SGIs and PPIs and allocate the first available
> block of irq_desc's.

Ahh, OK that makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation Rob!  That'll 
hopefully help me with a common VIC binding.

Jamie
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