Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Support ROHM BD96801 scalable PMIC

Mark Brown
2024-05-09T05:08:18Z

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 01:52:27PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 4/5/24 12:19, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > On 4/4/24 16:15, Matti Vaittinen wrote:

> > > > I would expect each parent interrupt to show up as a separate remap_irq.

> > > > So if we arrange to supply a name when we register multiple domains
> > > > things should work fine?

> > After my latest findings, yes, I think so. How to do this correctly is
> > beyond me though. The __irq_domain_create() seems to me that the name is
> > meant to be the dt-node name when the controller is backed by a real
> > dt-node. Naming of the irq_domain_alloc_named_fwnode() sounds to me like

...

> If we wanted to support multiple HWIRQs / regmap-IRQ controller, it would
> require us to duplicate almost everything in the struct regmap_irq_chip for
> every new parent IRQ. The status/mask register information, IRQ type, etc.
> Naturally, it would require also duplicating lot of the data contained in
> the struct regmap_irq_chip_data. I am not sure if this could be done so the
> change is not reflected in the existing IRQ data initialization macros etc.
> Furthermore, some API changes would be required like changes to
> regmap_irq_get_domain().

I don't understand what the difficulty is here - we're creating multiple
interrupt controllers so I'd expect to have to have full definitions of
each, and since everything is referenced by name from the root
regmap_irq_chip which gets registered it's just a case of supplying
different names and all the helpers should be fine?

> Thus, forcing the regmap-IRQ to support multiple parents instead of having
> own regmap-IRQ instance / parent IRQ feels like fitting square item to a
> round hole. I am sure fixing all the bugs I caused would give donate a lot
> of EXP-points though :rolleyes:

Right, my suggestion is to register multiple regmap_irq instrances - one
per parent - and supply a name that allows all the display/debugfs stuff
that currently uses the dev_name() to deduplicate. You'd end up
sticking -primary, -secondary or whatever name was supplied onto the
names we currently use.

> Another option I see, is trying to think if irq-domain name could be
> changed. (This is what the RFC v3 does, [ab]using the
> irq_domain_update_bus_token()). I was a bit put off by the idea of
> 'instantiating' multiple domains (or regmap-IRQ controllers) from a single
> node, but more I think of this, more I lean towards it. Besides, this is not

Yes, register mutliple controllers with different names.

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