linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 16/21] irqchip: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support

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Message-ID: <20150313171526.GL21998@io.lakedaemon.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:15:27 +0000
From:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
To:	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	linaro-acpi <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
	ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@...eaurora.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Suravee Suthikulanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 16/21] irqchip: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support

Hanjun, Catalin,

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 03:31:57PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 2015/3/12 13:12, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:46:39AM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> >> On 2015/3/12 7:11, Jason Cooper wrote:
> >>> Hey Grant,
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:04:50PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> >>>> On 11 Mar 2015 12:42, "Hanjun Guo" <hanjun.guo@...aro.org> wrote:
> [...]
> >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c b/drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c
> >>>>> index 0fe2f71..afd1af3 100644
> >>>>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c
> >>>>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c
> >>>>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> >>>>>   * warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
> >>>>>   */
> >>>>>
> >>>>> +#include <linux/acpi_irq.h>
> >>>>>  #include <linux/init.h>
> >>>>>  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
> >>>>>  #include <linux/irqchip.h>
> >>>>> @@ -26,4 +27,6 @@ extern struct of_device_id __irqchip_of_table[];
> >>>>>  void __init irqchip_init(void)
> >>>>>  {
> >>>>>         of_irq_init(__irqchip_of_table);
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> +       acpi_irq_init();
> >>>>>  }
> >>> Is this in line with Olof's idea that providing a dtb would override ACPI?
> >> Yes, it will. Since ACPI is default OFF (disabled), if a dtb provided, and no acpi=force
> >> passed in the early command line, dtb will be used as system configuration for
> >> boot (dtb is always the prior one for now) [1]. In acpi_gic_init() which called by
> >> acpi_irq_init(), it will return immediately if acpi disabled, so it will not parse
> >> any ACPI table for device configuration.
> > Ok, that matches my recollection.  Thanks for refreshing my memory.  I'll apply
> > this on a topic branch for irqchip/gic when I return from travel.  Most likely
> > Friday or over the weekend.
> 
> Thank you very much! But this patch can't be applied without previous ones in this
> patch set, how about you ack this patch and Catalin takes it via ARM64 tree? I'm
> not sure for this, it depends on your decision.

Is this a build dependency or a boot dependency?  I only received this patch in
the series and I apologize, I'm a bit swamped atm.  Catalin, would an immutable
irqchip/gic topic branch with this in it work for you?

thx,

Jason.
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