Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] gpio: dwapb: add gpio-signaled acpi event support

From: Jiang Qiu
Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 - 08:43:51 EST


å 2016/4/8 16:38, Mika Westerberg åé:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 10:26:28AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:08 AM, qiujiang <qiujiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch adds gpio-signaled acpi event support. It is used for
>>> power button on hisilicon D02 board, an arm64 platform.
>>>
>>> The corresponding DSDT file is defined as follows:
>>> Device(GPI0) {
>>> Name(_HID, "HISI0181")
>>> Name(_ADR, 0)
>>> Name(_UID, 0)
>>>
>>> Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () {
>>> Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite, 0x802e0000, 0x10000)
>>> Interrupt (ResourceConsumer, Level, ActiveHigh,
>>> Exclusive,,,) {344}
>>> })
>>>
>>> Device(PRTa) {
>>> Name (_DSD, Package () {
>>> Package () {
>>> Package () {"reg",0},
>>> Package () {"snps,nr-gpios",32},
>>> }
>>> })
>>> }
>>>
>>> Name (_AEI, ResourceTemplate () {
>>> GpioInt(Edge, ActiveLow, ExclusiveAndWake,
>>> PullUp, , " \\_SB.GPI0") {8}
>>> })
>>>
>>> Method (_E08, 0x0, NotSerialized) {
>>> Notify (\_SB.PWRB, 0x80)
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: qiujiang <qiujiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Admittedly I'm an ACPI novice and need help with deciding
>> about ACPI, but I mostly trust Mika to know these things right.
>>
>> About this:
>>
>>> + /* Add GPIO-signaled ACPI event support */
>>> + if (pp->irq)
>>> + acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts(&port->gc);
>> It's weird to me that the driver already has a requested IRQ and
>> everything, now it has to request it again from ACPI.
> This is different thing, though.
>
> Calling acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts() results _AEI ACPI method
> being evaluated that returns a list of GPIOs which are used as event
> sources. acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts() then goes and installs
> interrupt handler per each GPIO in that list.
>
>> When I look into the acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts()
>> I find it weird that it is void given how much can go wrong
>> inside it. Should it not return an errorcode?
> Currently it just complains if something goes wrong. The GPIO driver
> itself can still work just fine (including interrupts).
>
> I'm fine to change it to return an error code.
Agree, if add a error code for acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts(), it looks more pretty.

However, this function is common for other part, maybe cause any other effects if I
do this change, did you think so?

>>> + if (has_acpi_companion(dev) && pp->idx == 0)
>>> + pp->irq = platform_get_irq(to_platform_device(dev), 0);
>> As it was already fetched here and then later requested,
>> we still have to call acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts()
>> further down the road? That is confusing to me, can you
>> explain what is going on?
> See above.
>
> .
>