Re: [RFC] irqchip: add support for LS1021A external interrupt lines

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 03:33:00PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The LS1021A allows inverting the polarity of six interrupt lines
> IRQ[0:5] via the scfg_intpcr register, effectively allowing
> IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW and IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_FALLING for those. We just need to
> check the type, set the relevant bit in INTPCR accordingly, and fixup
> the type argument before calling the GIC's irq_set_type.
> 
> In fact, the power-on-reset value of the INTPCR register is so that all
> six lines have their polarity inverted. Hence any hardware connected to
> those lines is unusable without this: If the line is indeed active low,
> the generic GIC code will reject an irq spec with IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW,
> while if the line is active high, we must obviously disable the polarity
> inversion before unmasking the interrupt.
> 
> I suspect other layerscape SOCs may have something similar, but I have
> neither hardware nor documentation.
> 
> Since we only need to keep a single pointer in the chip_data (the syscon
> regmap), the code could be a little simpler by dropping the struct
> extirq_chip_data and just store the regmap directly - but I don't know
> if I do need to add a lock or something else to the chip_data, so for
> this RFC I've kept the struct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Marc, Alexander, thanks a lot for your hints. This is what I came up
> with, mostly just copy-pasted from the mtk-sysirq case. I've tested
> that it works as expected on my board.
> 
>  .../interrupt-controller/fsl,ls1021a-extirq.txt    |  19 +++

Please split to separate patch.

>  drivers/irqchip/Makefile                           |   1 +
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-ls1021a.c                      | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 177 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,ls1021a-extirq.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-ls1021a.c
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,ls1021a-extirq.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,ls1021a-extirq.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..53b04b6e1a80
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,ls1021a-extirq.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +* Freescale LS1021A external IRQs
> +
> +The LS1021A supports inverting the polarity of six external interrupt lines.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: should be "fsl,ls1021a-extirq"
> +- interrupt-controller: Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
> +- #interrupt-cells: Use the same format as specified by GIC in arm,gic.txt.
> +- interrupt-parent: phandle of GIC.
> +- syscon: phandle of Supplemental Configuration Unit (scfg).

Can this be a child of that node instead?

> +
> +Example:
> +		extirq: interrupt-controller@15701ac {

Unit-address without reg is not valid. Building with W=1 will tell you 
this.

> +			compatible = "fsl,ls1021a-extirq";
> +			#interrupt-cells = <3>;
> +			interrupt-controller;
> +			interrupt-parent = <&gic>;
> +			syscon = <&scfg>;
> +		};