[PATCH 4/4] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt support.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jul 7 00:26:46 EST 2012


On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:53 AM
>> To: Sethi Varun-B16395
>> Cc: Wood Scott-B07421; Kumar Gala; Linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt support.
>> 
>> On 06/18/2012 02:19 PM, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:47 AM
>>>> To: Sethi Varun-B16395
>>>> Cc: Kumar Gala; Wood Scott-B07421; Linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt
>> support.
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/18/2012 02:12 PM, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> +/*
>>>>>>>>> + * Error interrupt registers
>>>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>> +#define MPIC_ERR_INT_BASE	0x3900
>>>>>>>>> +#define MPIC_ERR_INT_EISR	0x0000
>>>>>>>>> +#define MPIC_ERR_INT_EIMR	0x0010
>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>> #define MPIC_MAX_IRQ_SOURCES	2048
>>>>>>>>> #define MPIC_MAX_CPUS		32
>>>>>>>>> #define MPIC_MAX_ISU		32
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> #define MPIC_MAX_TIMER    8
>>>>>>>>> #define MPIC_MAX_IPI      4
>>>>>>>>> +#define MPIC_MAX_ERR      32
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Should probably be 64
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This patch supports MPIC 4.1 and EISR0.  When support is added for
>>>>>>> EISR1 (didn't realize this was coming until your comment prompted
>>>>>>> me to check...), this should be updated, but this change alone
>>>>>>> would not make it work.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Would prefer we handle this now rather than later (T4240 is going
>>>>>> to need
>>>>>> EISR1 support).
>>>>> Hi Kumar,
>>>>> As of now I don't have a proper mechanism to test this functionality.
>>>>> I will submit a follow up patch for EISR1/EIMR1 support once I have
>>>>> a mechanism to test this functionality.
>>>> 
>>>> You could still write the code in a way that scales to multiple
>>>> EISRs, and test that it works with EISR0.
>>>> 
>>> Yes, but I would like to submit the patch once I have tested it.
>> 
>> So test it the way I described, and submit. :-P
> There just seem to be 32 error interrupts even in case of T4240, that means there is no
> need to handle multiple EISRs.

Ok, but I had some other comments about this patch.

> I have already submitted a revised patch for handling MPIC error interrupts.
> [PATCH 3/3 v2] powerpc/mpic: FSL MPIC error interrupt support

Please resubmit the full sequence of patches at this point.

- k


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