Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] soc: renesas: Add support for Renesas RZ/N1 GPIO Interrupt Multiplexer

[Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>]

Hi Linus,

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 13:08:57 +0200
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> Hi Herve,
> 
> thanks for your patch!
> 
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM Herve Codina (Schneider Electric)
> <herve.codina@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > On the Renesas RZ/N1 SoC, GPIOs can generate interruptions. Those
> > interruption lines are multiplexed by the GPIO Interrupt Multiplexer in
> > order to map 32 * 3 GPIO interrupt lines to 8 GIC interrupt lines.
> >
> > The GPIO interrupt multiplexer IP does nothing but select 8 GPIO
> > IRQ lines out of the 96 available to wire them to the GIC input lines.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Herve Codina (Schneider Electric) <herve.codina@bootlin.com>  
> 
> This looks like some complicated code to reimplement hierarchical
> irq domains.
> 
> Can't you just select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY and let
> the existing infrastructure in GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP handle
> this?
> 
> This kind of remapping and handling is exactly what the
> .child_to_parent_hwirq() callback in struct gpio_irq_chip
> is for. This function can fail if you run out if IRQ lines.
> 
> Inspect drivers/gpio/Kconfig driver that select
> IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY for examples of how to
> do this.
> 
> Even if your GPIO driver is not using GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP (in that
> case: why not?) I think you still need to use IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> for this.
> 

I don't see how IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY would help.

The irq-mux only muxes irq signal without performing any operations usually
done by an interrupt controller.

That's why I used interrupt-map in the irq-mux.

The only information needed by the irq-mux is the interrupt line muxing that
needs to be applied. This information is available in the interrupt-map.

If we introduce IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY, either it is done at gpio controller
level to route gpio interrupts to GIC interrupts and, in that case, the
irq-mux is skipped and cannot apply the muxing.

Or it is introduced at irq-mux level and irq-mux need to be an interrupt
controller but is component is not an interrupt controller.

Maybe I missed some points or I misunderstood the purpose of
IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY.

Can you give me some details on how IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY should be
used in my case?

Best regards,
Hervé