[PATCH] Fix masking of interrupts for 52xx GPT IRQ.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Mar 3 08:30:10 EST 2011


[fixed top-posted reply]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Henk Stegeman <henk.stegeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 02:28 +0100, Henk Stegeman wrote:
>>> When using the GPT as interrupt controller interupts were missing.
>>> It turned out the IrqEn bit of the GPT is not a mask bit, but it also
>>> disables interrupt generation. This modification masks interrupt one
>>> level down the cascade. Note that masking one level down the cascade
>>> is only valid here because the GPT as interrupt ontroller only serves
>>> one IRQ.
>>
>> I'm not too sure here... You shouldn't implemen t both mask/unmask and
>> enable/disable on the same irq_chip and certainly not cal
>> enable_irq/disable_irq from a mask or an unmask callback...
>>
>> Now, I'm not familiar with the HW here, can you tell me more about what
>> exactly is happening, how things are layed out and what you are trying
>> to fix ?
>>
[...]
> Because the old code in the unmask/mask function did enable/disable
> and I didn't want to just drop that code, I provided it via the
> enable/disable function.
> What is wrong by implementing & registering both mask/unmask and
> enable/disable for the same irq_chip?
> If it is wrong it would be nice to let the kernel print a big fat
> warning when this is registered.

After some digging, yes Ben is right.  It doesn't make much sense to
provide an enable/disable function along with the mask/unmask.  I
think you can safely drop the old enable/disable code.  I'm going to
drop this patch from my tree and you can respin and retest.

g.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Henk
>

>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Henk Stegeman <henk.stegeman at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>>  1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c
>>> index 6f8ebe1..9ae2045 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c
>>> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv {
>>>       struct irq_host *irqhost;
>>>       u32 ipb_freq;
>>>       u8 wdt_mode;
>>> -
>>> +     int cascade_virq;
>>>  #if defined(CONFIG_GPIOLIB)
>>>       struct of_gpio_chip of_gc;
>>>  #endif
>>> @@ -136,18 +136,35 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(mpc52xx_gpt_list_mutex);
>>>  static void mpc52xx_gpt_irq_unmask(unsigned int virq)
>>>  {
>>>       struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv *gpt = get_irq_chip_data(virq);
>>> +
>>> +     enable_irq(gpt->cascade_virq);
>>> +
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void mpc52xx_gpt_irq_mask(unsigned int virq)
>>> +{
>>> +     struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv *gpt = get_irq_chip_data(virq);
>>> +
>>> +     disable_irq(gpt->cascade_virq);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void mpc52xx_gpt_irq_enable(unsigned int virq)
>>> +{
>>> +     struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv *gpt = get_irq_chip_data(virq);
>>>       unsigned long flags;
>>>
>>> +     dev_dbg(gpt->dev, "%s %d\n", __func__, virq);
>>>       spin_lock_irqsave(&gpt->lock, flags);
>>>       setbits32(&gpt->regs->mode, MPC52xx_GPT_MODE_IRQ_EN);
>>>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpt->lock, flags);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> -static void mpc52xx_gpt_irq_mask(unsigned int virq)
>>> +static void mpc52xx_gpt_irq_disable(unsigned int virq)
>>>  {
>>>       struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv *gpt = get_irq_chip_data(virq);
>>>       unsigned long flags;
>>>
>>> +     dev_dbg(gpt->dev, "%s %d\n", __func__, virq);
>>>       spin_lock_irqsave(&gpt->lock, flags);
>>>       clrbits32(&gpt->regs->mode, MPC52xx_GPT_MODE_IRQ_EN);
>>>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpt->lock, flags);
>>> @@ -184,6 +201,8 @@ static struct irq_chip mpc52xx_gpt_irq_chip = {
>>>       .name = "MPC52xx GPT",
>>>       .unmask = mpc52xx_gpt_irq_unmask,
>>>       .mask = mpc52xx_gpt_irq_mask,
>>> +     .enable = mpc52xx_gpt_irq_enable,
>>> +     .disable = mpc52xx_gpt_irq_disable,
>>>       .ack = mpc52xx_gpt_irq_ack,
>>>       .set_type = mpc52xx_gpt_irq_set_type,
>>>  };
>>> @@ -268,7 +287,7 @@ mpc52xx_gpt_irq_setup(struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv *gpt, struct device_node *node)
>>>       if ((mode & MPC52xx_GPT_MODE_MS_MASK) == 0)
>>>               out_be32(&gpt->regs->mode, mode | MPC52xx_GPT_MODE_MS_IC);
>>>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpt->lock, flags);
>>> -
>>> +     gpt->cascade_virq = cascade_virq;
>>>       dev_dbg(gpt->dev, "%s() complete. virq=%i\n", __func__, cascade_virq);
>>>  }
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.


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