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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] Add the driver of mbigen interrupt controller
On 25/09/15 12:56, majun (F) wrote:
>
>
> 在 2015/9/25 3:30, Marc Zyngier 写道:
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:24:50 +0800
>> "majun (F)" <majun258@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>> +static int mbigen_device_init(struct mbigen_chip *chip,
>>>>> + struct device_node *node)
> [...]
>>>>> +
>>>>> +core_initcall(mbigen_init);
>>>>
>>>> That's the wrong thing to do. The interrupt controller should be
>>>> probed with IRQCHIP_DECLARE(). Yes, this creates a dependency
>>>> problem between the MSI layer and the irqchip layer, but that
>>>> should be easy (-ish) to solve.
>>>
>>> Based on our discusstion about DTS,I will change the code likes below:
>>> IRQCHIP_DECLARE(hisi_mbigen, "hisilicon,mbigen-v2", mbigen_of_init);
>>>
>>> Mbigen device is initialized as a interrupt controller.
>>>
>>> But I still can't call platform_msi_domain_alloc_irqs()
>>> to apply the msi irqs.
>>>
>>> It think this is what you said "dependency problem between
>>> the MSI layer and the irqchip layer" , am i right ?
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea about this problem?
>>
>> You need to have multiple phases for initializing this beast:
>> - IRQCHIP_DECLARE() to create the irqchips, allocate the domains and
>> the main data structures,
>> - platform device probing of the top-level device to do some HW probing
>> and to kick of_platform_populate on the subnodes,
>> - Handle the the subnode probing, allocate the MSIs, and finish the
>> initialization of the irqchip how that you have all the information.
>
> Ok, I got it. But I still have a question.
> According to your suggestions, the initial flow is:
>
> Step1: IRQCHIP_DECLARE() to create the irqchips, allocate the domains and
> the main data structures,
> Step2: Parse the device node and apply the irq(named as *device-virq*) within mbigen-device
> domain (handled by irq core code).
> Step3: platform device probing of the top-level device to do some HW probing
> and to kick of_platform_populate on the subnodes,
> Step4: Handle the the subnode probing, allocate the MSIs(named as *msi-virq*), and finish the
> initialization of the irqchip how that you have all the information.
>
> My questions is:
> How to connect msi-virq and device-virq ?
>
> In my v4 version, I used the
>
> irq_set_chained_handler(msi-virq, mbigen_handle_cascade_irq);
>
> as msi-virq primary handler function .
>
> Then find device-virq in mbigen_handle_cascade_irq()
> and call device-virq corresponding handler fucntion.
>
> But it seems not a right solution.
>
> So I want try another solution for this problem.
>
> [1] In step2, when the interrupt controller map function is called, using
> irq_set_chip_and_handler(device-irq, &mbigen_irq_chip, handle_fasteoi_irq);
> [2] In step4, using
> for_each_msi_entry(desc, &mgn_dev->dev) {
> request_irq( msi-virq, msi_irq_handler, **);
> }
>
> But I am not sure about this solution, please review this and offer me some suggestions.

I don't see what is wrong with keeping it as a chained irq handler.
Actually, you really need it to be a chained handler (because this is
what it is). So using irq_set_chained_handler_and_data() is probably the
right thing to do.

Thanks,

M.
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