Re: [PATCH 1/2] irqchip/qcom-pdc: don't read version register if it is not available

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 13:04, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:46:10 +0100,
> Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 12:36, Maulik Shah (mkshah)
> > <quic_mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Dmitry,
> > >
> > > This patch may be useful if there was a case where some PDCs don't have
> > > version register populated/available,
> > > In all PDC versions, version register is always available but due to reg
> > > size not good enough in device tree for SM8150 it failed to read.
> > >
> > > reg size in device node must be expanded if its too small to access all
> > > registers and i think
> > > additional check in driver to check if size is good enough would not be
> > > of much use.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't work this way. DT files are ABI. Even if we
> > change the DT, the kernel should continue working with the older
> > version.
> > Thus, we have to add such bandaid code, which will keep the kernel
> > from crashing if old DT was used.
>
> You're missing the point: all existing PDC HW have version register.
> The fact that the DT is crap doesn't invalidate this simple fact. It
> is thus perfectly possible for the driver to *ignore* the crap and do
> the right thing by expanding the size of the mapping, rather than
> falling back to the non-versioned code.

Ah. Interesting idea. If that's the overall consensus I can send v2
doing this. Not sure what is better though.

>
> There is definitely precedents for this sort of behaviour, such as the
> ARM GICv2 probe code.

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With best wishes
Dmitry