Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: defconfig: Enable TISCI Interrupt Router and Aggregator

[Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>]

On 08:42-20250204, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Vaishnav,
> 
> Thanks for your patch!
> 
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 16:08, Vaishnav Achath <vaishnav.a@ti.com> wrote:
> > Enable TISCI Interrupt Router and Interrupt Aggregator drivers.
> > These IPs are found in all TI K3 SoCs like J721E, AM62X and is required
> > for core functionality like DMA, GPIO Interrupts which is necessary
> > during boot, thus make them built-in.
> >
> > bloat-o-meter summary on vmlinux:
> >         add/remove: 460/1 grow/shrink: 4/0 up/down: 162483/-8 (162475)
> >         ...
> >         Total: Before=31615984, After=31778459, chg +0.51%
> 
> My first thought was: that's a hefty size increase for two rather
> small drivers!  So I enabled these two options in one of my own kernel
> configs, and saw a size increase of only 7872 bytes...
> 
> > Fixes: 2d95ffaecbc2 ("irqchip/ti-sci-intr: Add module build support")
> > Fixes: b8b26ae398c4 ("irqchip/ti-sci-inta : Add module build support")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vaishnav Achath <vaishnav.a@ti.com>
> > ---
> >
> > V1 : https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250119182121.3956546-1-vaishnav.a@ti.com/
> >
> > V1->V2:
> >         * Add Fixes tag.
> >         * Add bloat-o-meter summary to commit message.
> >
> > Previously both of these configs were selected for ARCH_K3 in respective
> > Kconfigs, but commit b8b26ae398c4 ("irqchip/ti-sci-inta : Add module build support")
> > and commit 2d95ffaecbc2 ("irqchip/ti-sci-intr: Add module build support")
> > in dropped this recently without adding those back in arm64
> > defconfig, this causes boot failure in all TI K3 platforms.
> >
> > Passing bootlog with configs enabled:
> > https://gist.github.com/vaishnavachath/03d8d3ce0f22219643c2f4d1dd243fd1
> >
> >  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> > index cb7da4415599..1f25423de383 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> > @@ -1551,6 +1551,8 @@ CONFIG_PWM_VISCONTI=m
> >  CONFIG_SL28CPLD_INTC=y
> >  CONFIG_QCOM_PDC=y
> >  CONFIG_QCOM_MPM=y
> > +CONFIG_TI_SCI_INTR_IRQCHIP=y
> > +CONFIG_TI_SCI_INTA_IRQCHIP=y
> >  CONFIG_RESET_GPIO=m
> >  CONFIG_RESET_IMX7=y
> >  CONFIG_RESET_QCOM_AOSS=y
> 
> However, on arm64 defconfig, this has indeed a much bigger impact,
> as it also (re)enables several other drivers that depend on the
> irqchip symbols.
> 
> You probably want to mention that in the commit message...

Thanks Geert and I agree. This however just restores the status quo as
it was in 6.13 tag kernel (and ofcourse the default boot status).

Will be good to mention that as well - in effect, we are just restoring
the behavior, not introducing new features.

Side note: We are still working towards fixing up other driver modules
and some time in near future, hope to transition to initramfs boot as
default in a single patch.. but till then let us maintain the status
quo.

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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