Re: [RFT PATCH v2] gpiolib: allow gpio irqchip to map irqs dynamically

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:49:00AM -0500, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>> Now IRQ mappings are always created for all (allowed) GPIOs in gpiochip in
>> gpiochip_irqchip_add_key() which goes against the idea of SPARSE_IRQ and,
>> as result, leads to:
>>  - increasing of memory consumption for IRQ descriptors most of which will
>> never ever be used (espessially on platform with a high number of GPIOs).
>> (sizeof(struct irq_desc) == 256 on my tested platforms)
>>  - imposibility to use GPIO irqchip APIs by gpio drivers when HW implements
>> GPIO IRQ functionality as IRQ crossbar/router which has only limited
>> number of IRQ outputs (example from [1], all GPIOs can be mapped on only 8
>> IRQs).
>>
>> Hence, remove static IRQ mapping code from gpiochip_irqchip_add_key() and
>> instead replace irq_find_mapping() with irq_create_mapping() in
>> gpiochip_to_irq(). Also add additional gpiochip_irqchip_irq_valid() calls
>> in gpiochip_to_irq() and gpiochip_irq_map().
>>
>> After this change gpio2irq mapping will happen the following way when GPIO
>> irqchip APIs are used by gpio driver:
>>  - IRQ mappings will be created statically if driver passes first_irq>0
>> vlaue in gpiochip_irqchip_add_key().
>>  - IRQ mappings will be created dynamically from gpio_to_irq() or
>> of_irq_get().
>>
>> Tested on am335x-evm and dra72-evm-revc.
>> - dra72-evm-revc: number of created irq mappings decreased from 402 -> 135
>>   Mem savings 267*256 = 68352 (66kB)
>> - am335x-evm: number of created irq mappings decreased from 188 -> 63
>>   Mem savings 125*256 = 32000 (31kB)
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/15/428
>> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
>
> Hi Grygorii,
>
> It looks like dc749a09ea5e41 ("gpiolib: allow gpio irqchip to map irqs
> dynamically") broke the quirk we added for some Intel Cherryview
> systems [1]. Basically after this keyboard of those systems stopped
> working again.

It seems like we need to revert this change.

I have also noted the following:

-       /*
-        * Prepare the mapping since the irqchip shall be orthogonal to
-        * any gpiochip calls. If the first_irq was zero, this is
-        * necessary to allocate descriptors for all IRQs.
-        */
-       for (offset = 0; offset < gpiochip->ngpio; offset++) {
-               if (!gpiochip_irqchip_irq_valid(gpiochip, offset))
-                       continue;
-               irq_base = irq_create_mapping(gpiochip->irqdomain, offset);
-               if (!irq_base_set) {
-                       /*
-                        * Store the base into the gpiochip to be used when
-                        * unmapping the irqs.
-                        */
-                       gpiochip->irq_base = irq_base;
-                       irq_base_set = true;
-               }

Note assignment of gpiochip->irq_base.

A whole slew of drivers use this.

We cannot merge a change like this without also fixing all the users
of .irq_base, as it will cause regressions on them.

Yours,
Linus Walleij