From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
Milton Miller <miltonm-ogEGBHC/i9Y@public.gmane.org>,
linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFCv2 00/14]
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:08:33 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327702113.24487.19.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6vA6CSCAU82uuMaycqDBt+JG3KvXzAURDWQ0Deyeg13Ow-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 14:33 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> I've got the x86 fix in my tree now. It will be part of the next
> merge. MIPS, Microblaze and OpenRISC cannot turn on CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN
> without rework. I just hacked together the microblaze version, but
> Michal will have to verify that it is correct. I just posted it. It
> will be similar for the other two.
>
> The real problem is sparc which does something entirely different for
> irqs. Rather than resolving irqs on-demand, it calculates the Linux
> irq numbers at boot time for every node in the tree. The irq_domains
> will need to be set up for all interrupt controllers before sparc
> begins it's big walk of the tree to resolve interrupts. I haven't dug
> into everything that needs to be done to support this.
>
> I don't think you can count on turning on IRQ_DOMAIN on all
> architectures just yet. Adding irq_domain support directly to
> irq_generic_chip is going to be difficult for that reason. However,
> it would be useful to have an irq_domain+irq_generic_chip wrapper that
> can be enabled only when IRQ_DOMAIN is enabled.
Beware also that there are plenty of cases where 1 irq domain != 1 irq
chip, for example on cell or xics where a single domain can encompass
multiple chips. I don't know whether x86 APICs are the same, they could
be tho :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 21:07 [RFCv2 00/14] Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 01/14] irq_domain: add documentation and MAINTAINERS entry Grant Likely
2012-01-24 19:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-28 17:05 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 03/14] irq_domain: Make irq_domain structure match powerpc's irq_host Grant Likely
2012-01-24 21:38 ` Rob Herring
2012-01-24 22:08 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-24 22:11 ` Rob Herring
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 05/14] irq_domain/powerpc: Use common irq_domain structure instead of irq_host Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 06/14] irq_domain/powerpc: eliminate irq_map; use irq_alloc_desc() instead Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 07/14] irq_domain/powerpc: Eliminate virq_is_host() Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 08/14] irq_domain: Move irq_domain code from powerpc to kernel/irq Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 09/14] irqdomain: remove NO_IRQ from irq domain code Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 10/14] irq_domain: Remove references to old irq_host names Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 11/14] irq_domain: Replace irq_alloc_host() with revmap-specific initializers Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 12/14] irq_domain: Add support for base irq and hwirq in legacy mappings Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 13/14] irq_domain: Remove 'new' irq_domain in favour of the ppc one Grant Likely
2012-01-24 22:10 ` Rob Herring
[not found] ` <4F1F2C3A.3060607-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-25 0:26 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 14/14] irq_domain: Remove irq_domain_add_simple() Grant Likely
[not found] ` <1327352870-14687-1-git-send-email-grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 02/14] dt: Make irqdomain less verbose Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:07 ` [RFCv2 04/14] irq_domain: convert microblaze from irq_host to irq_domain Grant Likely
2012-01-23 21:53 ` [RFCv2 00/14] Rob Herring
[not found] ` <4F1DD6DF.4080706-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-25 14:13 ` Cousson, Benoit
[not found] ` <4F200DFD.7070407-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-25 18:51 ` Rob Herring
2012-01-26 21:33 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <CACxGe6vA6CSCAU82uuMaycqDBt+JG3KvXzAURDWQ0Deyeg13Ow-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-27 22:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-01-27 22:13 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-25 22:53 ` Mark Salter
2012-01-26 13:38 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-26 14:26 ` [PATCH] irq_domain/c6x: Convert c6x to use generic irq_domain support Mark Salter
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