Re: [PATCH] iio: dummy: evgen: use irq_sim

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

2017-09-27 19:12 GMT+02:00 Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 09/26/2017 06:49 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> Switch to using the recently added interrupt simulator for dummy irqs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for doing this.
>
> [...]
>>  static int iio_dummy_evgen_create(void)
>>  {
>> -     int ret, i;
>> +     int ret;
>>
>>       iio_evgen = kzalloc(sizeof(*iio_evgen), GFP_KERNEL);
>>       if (!iio_evgen)
>>               return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> -     iio_evgen->base = irq_alloc_descs(-1, 0, IIO_EVENTGEN_NO, 0);
>> -     if (iio_evgen->base < 0) {
>> -             ret = iio_evgen->base;
>> -             kfree(iio_evgen);
>> +     ret = irq_sim_init(&iio_evgen->irq_sim, IIO_EVENTGEN_NO);
>> +     if (ret)
>
> What happened to the kfree(iio_evgen)?
>

Oops, nice catch, thanks!

>>               return ret;
>> -     }
>> -     iio_evgen->chip.name = iio_evgen_name;
>> -     iio_evgen->chip.irq_mask = &iio_dummy_event_irqmask;
>> -     iio_evgen->chip.irq_unmask = &iio_dummy_event_irqunmask;
>> -     for (i = 0; i < IIO_EVENTGEN_NO; i++) {
>> -             irq_set_chip(iio_evgen->base + i, &iio_evgen->chip);
>> -             irq_set_handler(iio_evgen->base + i, &handle_simple_irq);
>> -             irq_modify_status(iio_evgen->base + i,
>> -                               IRQ_NOREQUEST | IRQ_NOAUTOEN,
>> -                               IRQ_NOPROBE);
>> -     }
>> -     init_irq_work(&iio_evgen->handler.work, iio_dummy_work_handler);
>> +
>> +     iio_evgen->base = irq_sim_irqnum(&iio_evgen->irq_sim, 0);
> I saw you introduced irq_sim_baseirq(), to get rid of ->base. But as far as
> I can see the only remaining places where we need the base is to do the
> reverse lookup from IRQ to index. It would be nice if the irq_sim had a
> function for that, then we wouldn't have to know about the base at all.
>

I'm not sure I understand. Irq sim doesn't know anything about iio
data structures, so how would such a reverse lookup work in this case?

Best regards,
Bartosz Golaszewski