Re: [PATCH 3/6] irqchip: irq-mvebu-gicp: new driver for Marvell GICP

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 30 May 2017 14:55:57 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:

> > +	for (i = 0; i < GICP_INT_COUNT; i++)
> > +		writel(i, regs + GICP_CLRSPI_NSR_OFFSET);  
> 
> What does this do on an edge interrupt?

I guess nothing. What the ICU does is:

 * For level interrupts: when the interrupt wire is asserted, write to
   SETNSR, when the interrupt wire is deasserted, write to CLRNSR

 * For edge interrupts: only the interrupt assertion causes a write to
   SETNSR.

> I bet this doesn't have any effect

Indeed. But do we care? Can an edge interrupt be left pending from the
firmware?

>, so you may want to use the irq_set_irqchip_state() API to clear a
> potential pending state instead (and you may want to wire it in the
> ICU driver itself as well).

I'm not sure how to use this irq_set_irqchip_state() API. I guess it
needs a virq that corresponds to the GIC SPI interrupt, and I'm not
sure how to get that.

Thomas
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