RE: [RFC 5/5] powerpc/fsl: Add supported-irq-ranges for P2020

[Bharat Bhushan]

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> Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] powerpc/fsl: Add supported-irq-ranges for P2020
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> On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 03:44 +0000, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
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> > > From: Scott Wood [mailto:oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> > > Subject: Re: [RFC 5/5] powerpc/fsl: Add supported-irq-ranges for
> > > P2020
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 15:18 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> > > > MPIC on NXP (Freescale) P2020 supports following irq
> > > > ranges:
> > > >   > 0 - 11      (External interrupt)
> > > >   > 16 - 79     (Internal interrupt)
> > > >   > 176 - 183   (Messaging interrupt)
> > > >   > 224 - 231   (Shared message signaled interrupt)
> > >
> > > Why don't you convert to the 4-cell interrupt specifiers that make
> > > dealing with these ranges less error-prone?
> >
> > Ok , will do if we agree to have this series as per comment on other patch.
> 
> If you're concerned with errors, this would be a good things to do regardless.
>  Actually, it seems that p2020si-post.dtsi already uses 4-cell interrupts.
> 
> What is motivating this patchset?  Is there something wrong in the existing
> dts files?

There is no error in device tree. Main motivation is to improve code for following reasons: 
  - While code study it was found that if a reserved irq-number used then there are no check in driver. irq will be configured as correct and interrupt will never fire.
 - Warnings were observed on development platform (simulator) when read/write to reserved MPIC reason during init.
  
> 
> 
> >
> > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_rdb.c
> > > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_rdb.c
> > > > index 1006950..49ff348 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_rdb.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_rdb.c
> > > > @@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ void __init mpc85xx_rdb_pic_init(void)
> > > >  			MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN |
> > > >  			MPIC_SINGLE_DEST_CPU,
> > > >  			0, 256, " OpenPIC  ");
> > > > +	} else if (of_machine_is_compatible("fsl,P2020RDB-PC")) {
> > > > +		mpic = mpic_alloc(NULL, 0,
> > > > +		  MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN |
> > > > +		  MPIC_SINGLE_DEST_CPU,
> > > > +		  0, 0, " OpenPIC  ");
> > > >  	} else {
> > > >  		mpic = mpic_alloc(NULL, 0,
> > > >  		  MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN |
> > >
> > > I don't think we want to grow a list of every single revision of
> > > every board in these platform files.
> >
> > One other confusing observation I have is that "irq_count" from
> > platform code is given precedence over "last-interrupt-source" in device-
> tree.
> > Should not device-tree should have precedence otherwise there is no
> > point using " last-interrupt-source" if platform code passes
> > "irq_count" in mpic_alloc().
> 
> Maybe, though I don't think it matters much given that last-interrupt-source
> was only added to avoid having to pass irq_count in platform code.

Thanks for clarifying;

My understanding was that "last-interrupt-source" added to ensure that we can over-ride value passed from platform code. In that case we do not need to change code and can control from device tree.

Thanks
-Bharat


> 
> -Scott