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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/25] irq_domain generalization and refinement
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:01:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328400065.30631.9.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120204221748.GN14129@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 22:17 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 02:35:54PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> > 
> > This patch series is ready for much wider consumption now.  I'd like
> > to get it into linux-next ASAP because there will be ARM board support
> > depending on it.  I'll wait a few days before I ask Stephen to pull
> > this in.
> 
> Grant,
> 
> Can you answer me this: does this irqdomain support require DT?

The original powerpc code this is based on didn't require it. It was an
explicit design decision and I remember insisting that Grant follows it,
but I haven't yet reviewed his last batch.

DT is orthogonal. You have "helpers" that use the DT to resolve the
domain of an interrupt source and do the mapping for you, but I made
sure that you call always still create domains and map interrupts using
explicit domain pointers & hw numbers.

(And I need them to deal with ancient broken device-tree's on some
platforms such as oldworld PowerMacs).

> The question comes up because OMAP has converted some of their support
> to require irq domain support for their PMICs, and it seems irq domain
> support requires DT.  This seems to have made the whole of OMAP
> essentially become a DT-only platform.

 .../...

> Now, here's the thing: I believe that IRQ domains - at least as far as
> the hwirq stuff - should be available irrespective of whether we have
> the rest of the IRQ domain support code in place, so that IRQ support
> code doesn't have to keep playing games to decode from the global
> space to the per-controller number space.
> 
> I believe that would certainly help the current OMAP problems, where
> the current lack of CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN basically makes the kernel oops
> on boot.
> 
> How we fix this regression for 3.4 I've no idea at present, I'm trying
> to work out what the real dependencies are for OMAP on this stuff.
> 
> Finally, do we need asm/irq.h in our asm/prom.h ?  That's causing
> fragility between DT and non-DT builds, because people are finding
> that their DT builds work without their mach/irqs.h includes but
> fail when built with non-DT.  The only thing which DT might need -
> at the most - is NR_IRQS, but I'd hope with things like irq domains
> it doesn't actually require it.

Cheers,
Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-05  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27 21:35 [PATCH v3 00/25] irq_domain generalization and refinement Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 01/25] irq_domain: add documentation and MAINTAINERS entry Grant Likely
2012-01-28 18:23   ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-28 19:59     ` Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 02/25] dt: Make irqdomain less verbose Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 03/25] irq_domain: Make irq_domain structure match powerpc's irq_host Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 04/25] irq_domain: convert microblaze from irq_host to irq_domain Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:35 ` [PATCH v3 05/25] irq_domain/powerpc: Use common irq_domain structure instead of irq_host Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 06/25] irq_domain/powerpc: eliminate irq_map; use irq_alloc_desc() instead Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 07/25] irq_domain/powerpc: Eliminate virq_is_host() Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 08/25] irq_domain: Move irq_domain code from powerpc to kernel/irq Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 09/25] irqdomain: remove NO_IRQ from irq domain code Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 10/25] irq_domain: Remove references to old irq_host names Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 11/25] irq_domain: Replace irq_alloc_host() with revmap-specific initializers Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 12/25] irq_domain: Add support for base irq and hwirq in legacy mappings Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 13/25] irq_domain: Remove 'new' irq_domain in favour of the ppc one Grant Likely
2012-02-03 14:48   ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-03 16:42     ` Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 14/25] irq_domain: Remove irq_domain_add_simple() Grant Likely
2012-01-31 12:45   ` Shawn Guo
2012-01-31 13:15     ` Rob Herring
2012-01-31 13:58       ` Shawn Guo
2012-02-01  0:08         ` Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 15/25] irq_domain: Create common xlate functions that device drivers can use Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 16/25] irq_domain: constify irq_domain_ops Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 17/25] irq_domain/c6x: Convert c6x to use generic irq_domain support Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 18/25] irq_domain/c6x: constify irq_domain structures Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 19/25] irq_domain/c6x: Use library of xlate functions Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 20/25] irq_domain/powerpc: constify irq_domain_ops Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 21/25] irqdomain/powerpc: Replace custom xlate functions with library functions Grant Likely
2012-02-06  5:22   ` Michael Neuling
2012-02-06  6:00     ` Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 22/25] irq_domain/x86: Convert x86 (embedded) to use common irq_domain Grant Likely
2012-01-28 16:44   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-01-29  0:35     ` Grant Likely
2012-01-29  0:39       ` Grant Likely
2012-01-30 19:58     ` Grant Likely
2012-02-01 14:17       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-02-01 18:06         ` Grant Likely
2012-02-23 19:56           ` Grant Likely
2012-02-23 21:22             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-02-23 21:39               ` Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 23/25] irq_domain: Include hwirq number in /proc/interrupts Grant Likely
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 24/25] irq_domain: remove "hint" when allocating irq numbers Grant Likely
2012-02-07 18:07   ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-15 15:04     ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-15 20:21       ` Grant Likely
2012-02-15 21:50         ` Shawn Guo
2012-02-16  5:32           ` Grant Likely
2012-02-16  6:03             ` Shawn Guo
2012-01-27 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 25/25] irq_domain: mostly eliminate slow-path revmap lookups Grant Likely
2012-02-15 16:36   ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-15 20:29     ` Grant Likely
2012-01-28 18:38 ` [PATCH v3 00/25] irq_domain generalization and refinement Rob Herring
2012-01-28 19:10   ` Grant Likely
2012-01-31  4:53 ` Olof Johansson
2012-02-01  0:07   ` Grant Likely
2012-02-04 22:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-04 22:31   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-05  1:38     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-05 16:13       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-07 15:26         ` Mark Brown
2012-02-15 20:33           ` Grant Likely
2012-02-05  0:01   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-02-06  0:51   ` Rob Herring
2012-02-06  5:56   ` Grant Likely

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