linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V7 2/4] firmware: imx: enable imx scu general irq function

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Message-ID: <20190411073252.GC3050@dragon>
Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:32:53 +0800
From:   Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
To:     Anson Huang <anson.huang@....com>
Cc:     "robh+dt@...nel.org" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "s.hauer@...gutronix.de" <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
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        "a.zummo@...ertech.it" <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        "alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com" <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Aisheng Dong <aisheng.dong@....com>,
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        "sboyd@...nel.org" <sboyd@...nel.org>, Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>,
        Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@....com>,
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        dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 2/4] firmware: imx: enable imx scu general irq function

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 04:59:55AM +0000, Anson Huang wrote:
> The System Controller Firmware (SCFW) controls RTC, thermal
> and WDOG etc., these resources' interrupt function are managed
> by SCU. When any IRQ pending, SCU will notify Linux via MU general
> interrupt channel #3, and Linux kernel needs to call SCU APIs
> to get IRQ status and notify each module to handle the interrupt.
> 
> Since there is no data transmission for SCU IRQ notification, so
> doorbell mode is used for this MU channel, and SCU driver will
> use notifier mechanism to broadcast to every module which registers
> the SCU block notifier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@....com>

Applied, thanks.