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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 05/19] irqchip: crossbar: Change allocation logic by reversing search for free irqs
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:39:39AM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Thursday 12 June 2014 06:26 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 05:23:13PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
> >> From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
> >>
> >> Reverse the search algorithm to ensure that address mapping and IRQ
> >> allocation logics are proper. This can open up new bugs which are
> >> easily fixable rather than wait till allocation logic approaches
> >> the limit to find new bugs.
> >
> > Could you expand on this logic some more? What class of bugs are you
> > hoping to discover more easily?
> >
>
> class 1. address space errors -> example:
> reg = <a size_b>
> ti,max-irqs = is a wrong parameter
>
> class 2: irq-reserved list - which decides which entries in the
> address space is not actually wired in
>
> class 3: wrong list of routable-irqs.
>
> in general allocating from max to min tends to have benefits in
> ensuring the different issues that may be present in dts is easily
> caught at definition time, rather than at a later point in time.

Perfect, thanks for clarifying. Please add this to the commit log when
you respin.

thx,

Jason.


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