Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] DRIVERS: IRQCHIP: IRQ-GIC: Add support for routableirqs

From: Sricharan R
Date: Thu Oct 24 2013 - 06:45:03 EST


On Thursday 24 October 2013 03:08 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Sricharan R wrote:
>
>> In some socs the gic can be preceded by a crossbar IP which
>> routes the peripheral interrupts to the gic inputs. The peripheral
>> interrupts are associated with a fixed crossbar input line and the
>> crossbar routes that to one of the free gic input line.
>>
>> The DT entries for peripherals provides the fixed crossbar input line
>> as its interrupt number and the mapping code should associate this with
>> a free gic input line. This patch adds the support inside the gic irqchip
>> to handle such routable irqs. The routable irqs are registered in a linear
>> domain. The registered routable domain's callback should be implemented
>> to get a free irq and to configure the IP to route it.
>>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxx>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt | 5 +++
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi | 1 +
>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>> include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h | 8 +++-
>> 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>> index 3dfb0c0..2d8c680 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>> @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ Optional
>> regions, used when the GIC doesn't have banked registers. The offset is
>> cpu-offset * cpu-nr.
>>
>> +- routable-irqs : Total number of gic irq inputs which are not directly
>> + connected from the peripherals, but are routed dynamically
>> + by a crossbar/multiplexer preceding the GIC. The GIC irq
>> + input line is assigned dynamically when the corresponding
>> + peripheral's crossbar line is mapped.
> arm,routable-irqs
ok will change here as well.

Thanks for reviewing.

Regards,
Sricharan
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