Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] gpio: uniphier: add UniPhier GPIO controller driver

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Sep 07 2017 - 15:42:08 EST


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This GPIO controller device is used on UniPhier SoCs.
>
> It also serves as an interrupt controller, but interrupt signals are
> just delivered to the parent irqchip without any latching or OR'ing.
> This is implemented by using hierarchy IRQ domain.
>
> Implementation note:
> Unfortunately, the IRQ mapping from this controller to the parent is
> random. (48, 49, ..., 63, 154, 155, ...)
> If "interrupts" property is used, IRQ resources may be statically
> allocated when platform devices are populated from DT. This can be
> a problem for the hierarchy IRQ domain because IRQ allocation must
> happen from the outer-most domain up to the root domain in order to
> build up the stacked IRQ. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/758)
> Solutions to work around it could be to hard-code parent hwirqs or
> to invent a driver-specific DT property.
>
> Here, the new API irq_domain_push_irq() was merged by v4.14-rc1.
> It allows to add irq_data to the existing hierarchy. It will help
> to make this driver work whether the parent has already initialized
> the hierarchy or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Add COMPILE_TEST and select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> - Reimplement irqchip part by using irq_domain_push_irq()
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add .irq_set_affinity() hook
> - Use irq_domain_create_hierarchy() instead of legacy
> irq_domain_add_hierarchy()
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove +32 offset for parent interrupts to follow the GIC
> binding convention
> - Let uniphier_gpio_irq_alloc() fail if nr_irqs != 1
> - Allocate gpio_chip statically because just one instance is
> supported
> - Fix suspend and resume hooks
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-uniphier.txt | 43 ++

What happened to my ack? One line here more that before, but I'm not
going to diff your patches for you.

BTW, it is preferred to split bindings to a separate patch.

> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 8 +
> drivers/gpio/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c | 486 +++++++++++++++++++++
> include/dt-bindings/gpio/uniphier-gpio.h | 18 +
> 6 files changed, 557 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-uniphier.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c
> create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/gpio/uniphier-gpio.h