Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752377AbbE0D1b (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 23:27:31 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f179.google.com ([209.85.216.179]:36141 "EHLO mail-qc0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751762AbbE0D10 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 23:27:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1430901477-10678-1-git-send-email-gregory.0xf0@gmail.com> From: Gregory Fong Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:26:55 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] GPIO support for BRCMSTB To: Linus Walleij Cc: "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , Alexandre Courbot , bcm-kernel-feedback-list , Brian Norris , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Florian Fainelli , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Rutland , Pawel Moll , Rob Herring , Russell King Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3651 Lines: 86 Hi Linus, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Fong wrote: >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: >>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Gregory Fong wrote: >>> >>>> There is only one IRQ for each GIO IP block (i.e. several register banks share >>>> an IRQ). After briefly looking into the generic IRQ chip implementation, it >>>> seemed like in this case that using it would result in the driver being more >>>> complex than necessary because AFAICT it expects a 1:1 mapping of >>>> irq_chip_generic to gpio_chip. It seemed like less of a pain to have a single >>>> irq_chip since we have a single IRQ for all register banks (multiple >>>> gpio_chips). I might be missing something, maybe using a shared IRQ across >>>> multiple irq_chips is easier than I think? Suggestions welcome. >>> >>> What is needed is a 1:1 mapping between GPIO offsets and IRQ >>> offsets. >>> >>> If you just number your GPIOs 0...n and your IRQs 0...n >>> it should work just fine with one irqchip for all banks. >>> >>> What screws things up is likely that the hardware supports >>> 32 lines per bank and not all are used. >>> >>> I suggest you enable 32 line and 32 IRQs per bank, >>> so that hwirq maps nicely 1:1 on the GPIO offsets, >>> then just use the width thing to NACK operations on >>> GPIO lines you are not using. This way you can also >>> decode and warn on spurious IRQs on the unused lines. >> >> For having 32 lines per bank, the big problem here is the upper limit >> of 256 GPIOs. > > Which arch is this? > Usually this limit comes from > arch/*/include/asm/gpio.h > > For ARM that was bumped to 512 a while back. It is also possible > to define a custom value for your system by defining > ARCH_NR_GPIOS > >> Anyway, I don't think I understand IRQ domains and irq_chip_generic >> very well. One possibility _might_ be to use multiple irq_chips. > > That is probably not possible if there is just one IRQ for all > banks. > > The task of the irqdomain is a 1-to-1 translation from one > hardware numberspace to the Linux IRQ number space. > > In your case the hardware IRQ (hwirq) numberspace > should be: > > bank0: 0..31 > bank1: 32..63 > .... > bankn: 32*n..32*n+31 > > I think the gpiolib irqchip code can translate that properly > as it is just a simple 0...x mapping, the irq handler need > some magic to loop over all banks from 0..n though. I've now actually attempted to use the gpiolib irqchip code. This driver can't directly use gpiochip_irqchip_add() because of the multiple gpiochip : one irqchip map. At first, I thought it might be possible to simply add a new argument (or break things into a helper function) to allow setting the associated IRQ domain, but then I can't use the generic map and unmap functions which expect the irq_domain host_data member to be struct gpiochip *, which makes no sense in this case. That puts me right back to implementing a special version of the map and unmap function. Since there doesn't appear to be any benefit to using the gpiolib irqchip code for this case, I'm going to stick with my implementation from patch 3 of this patchset. I've also added to it to allow for using the GPIOs as a wakeup source, and will submit that as well with V2. Thanks, Gregory -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/