iio_trigger_alloc fails on Raspberry pi

iio_trigger_alloc fails on Raspberry pi

[Jonathan Clapson]

Hey

I'm trying to write a driver to interact with the mpu6000 imu sensor
on the raspberry pi.
I've modified the mpu6050 i2c driver in the linux kernel to use the
mpu6000's spi interface. Calls of iio_trigger_alloc fail. I've added
some debugging info to industrialio-trigger.c and from this have
narrowed it down to the irq_alloc_descs function failing to allocate
any irq's.

cat /proc/interrupts returns:
           CPU0
  3:      21114   ARMCTRL  BCM2708 Timer Tick
 32:     986019   ARMCTRL  dwc_otg, dwc_otg_pcd, dwc_otg_hcd:usb1
 65:          7   ARMCTRL  ARM Mailbox IRQ
 66:          1   ARMCTRL  VCHIQ doorbell
 75:          1   ARMCTRL
 77:       6801   ARMCTRL  bcm2708_sdhci (dma)
 80:         30   ARMCTRL  bcm2708_spi.0
 83:         20   ARMCTRL  uart-pl011
 84:      11002   ARMCTRL  mmc0
FIQ:              usb_fiq
Err:          0

The call to irq_alloc_descs seems to be trying to allocate *any* two
consecutive irq's (two being the value of
CONFIG_IIO_CONSUMERS_PER_TRIGGER), the above i believe shows that this
should be possible?

Any idea's why irq_alloc_descs is failing?

Thanks

Re: iio_trigger_alloc fails on Raspberry pi

[Jonathan Cameron]

On 07/30/13 04:39, Jonathan Clapson wrote:
> Hey
> 
> I'm trying to write a driver to interact with the mpu6000 imu sensor
> on the raspberry pi.
> I've modified the mpu6050 i2c driver in the linux kernel to use the
> mpu6000's spi interface. Calls of iio_trigger_alloc fail. I've added
> some debugging info to industrialio-trigger.c and from this have
> narrowed it down to the irq_alloc_descs function failing to allocate
> any irq's.
> 
> cat /proc/interrupts returns:
>            CPU0
>   3:      21114   ARMCTRL  BCM2708 Timer Tick
>  32:     986019   ARMCTRL  dwc_otg, dwc_otg_pcd, dwc_otg_hcd:usb1
>  65:          7   ARMCTRL  ARM Mailbox IRQ
>  66:          1   ARMCTRL  VCHIQ doorbell
>  75:          1   ARMCTRL
>  77:       6801   ARMCTRL  bcm2708_sdhci (dma)
>  80:         30   ARMCTRL  bcm2708_spi.0
>  83:         20   ARMCTRL  uart-pl011
>  84:      11002   ARMCTRL  mmc0
> FIQ:              usb_fiq
> Err:          0
> 
> The call to irq_alloc_descs seems to be trying to allocate *any* two
> consecutive irq's (two being the value of
> CONFIG_IIO_CONSUMERS_PER_TRIGGER), the above i believe shows that this
> should be possible?
> 
> Any idea's why irq_alloc_descs is failing?
It has been a while since I last came across anything similar but this is probably
due to the underlying raspberry pi kernel restricting your available interrupts.
In at least some boards it is still necessary to explicitly allocate a few more
in the board config file or equivalent.



> 
> Thanks
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