Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751795AbbLJCQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:16:59 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:41256 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbbLJCQ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:16:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:49:41 +1100 From: David Gibson To: Rob Herring Cc: Qais Yousef , "devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org" , Jason Cooper , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Thomas Gleixner , Marc Zyngier , Jiang Liu , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Lisa Parratt Subject: Re: Generic DT binding for IPIs Message-ID: <20151210004941.GY20139@voom.fritz.box> References: <561E2BE6.2090807@imgtec.com> <5628BE00.4020106@imgtec.com> <20151022115551.GI3953@io.lakedaemon.net> <56684877.3020708@imgtec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bNvn4bxlrUVLu6cT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3582 Lines: 98 --bNvn4bxlrUVLu6cT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:50:35AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Qais Yousef wrot= e: > > Hi, > > > > On 10/22/2015 12:55 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:44:16AM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: > >>> > >>> Is there anything more I can do to get more attention about this? I > >>> think Marc's suggestion is more generic and future proof, if I send > >>> RFC patches for that would this be better? > >> > >> Please do. > > > > > > Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to get around writing the patches = yet. > > I came up with a different description though that I thought maybe worth > > sharing > > to see if there's any opinion about it before the actual work being don= e. >=20 > I've not given this too much thought, but here's my initial thoughts. >=20 > > > > To summarise, the problem I am trying to solve is that we have a type of > > coprocessors which share the interrupt controller with Linux, hence the= IPI > > mechanism this controller uses. I've been working with Thomas on > > implementing > > a generic API to allocate IPIs for coprocesors and a way for drivers to= send > > these IPIs [1]. > > > > To complement this new API, we need a mechanism to describe this in > > device tree so a driver that wants to allocate an IPI can have this done > > automatically for it like we handle interrupts. > > > > What I have in mind is: > > > > coproc { > > ipi-parent =3D <&gic>; > > > > ipis =3D ; > > ipi-names =3D "in"; > > }; > > > > This will allocate an IPI to go to cpu @CPU_VALUE passing @IPI_SPEC as > > parameters to the controller. Which means we need a new ipi-cells to > > define how many cells are in ipis property. Note the new ipi-parent too. >=20 > These are still interrupts, so I'd prefer to use or extend the > interrupt binding if possible. I agree. It should be possible to just describe these as interrupts, with the interrupt-parent being a special interrupt controller node to represent these IPIs. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --bNvn4bxlrUVLu6cT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWaMwkAAoJEGw4ysog2bOSc1gP/1as/ZVKjydvXXC5UczHiJBq Zhtob1DiTupJxjBszijfH/RWpoK4dH2+BOm9wOp6IpRasAK1B50FwfdmQR9tA9WG VzUqcvlKH7L8qAK/kfTeIhLstXarOBQ1HjqHGwYtHhoYSkSO0ndP4BvvB6AB6rYF m3BDd8sMBzT9Bu6WL4Zv5ojHuzoH3MJ1k2pjoVHj6Jaz9NBV4nnDK+a2gEmWhpRQ A8SPwaTnAXyR+2xIbjSQkKCsSmaKRL/gfl9JlEOG8PxrzK8oi+w1+3bwF4E3q0mb BeVnLslsbJDR93IysHUXV23qZiYOh7oDxg1KRa1zN6J2gqEkpndaDczEEtBcHcxj hn9+8puF9L6Wu85PpGR+wXuyYcPyEFy80ClDlsuLO3n3PvNnmQl4AL8aiGi0DHJ3 eeMUM0Bjmhn5hDnXHMA8VGOjaCtiVcaudbA75UtvGXvHRBj0AcpMHUXEniDpNYWF k0FsUj93OIBd+fXf6iQRDeKFVkmw2CfsSUqiyk5+QYf3/yh2raI1WDImhjZn3fPh Io3yqINZ6bry5wUJjZcpmHLLA97nVTtterbhUwKS2wRD4qRKu9dEBY7lDDXAHG9z tHABeol27XYRofucTpdVCiHtLuh0mutk84XkFVZohoH2i00F1ZmD8hRiM8ZhkE7C 9ufw94lyK2n/fxcQGcTC =qJ05 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bNvn4bxlrUVLu6cT-- -- 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/