using general IRQs
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Aug 11 13:47:48 AEST 2015
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 06:45 +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 13:40 +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ran Shalit <ranshalit at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > MPC8349 has general IRQ numbered 0-7,
> > > > It is required to bind these IRQs with some routine , i.e. they are
> > > > not used with any specific driver.
> > > >
> > > > - Should they be configured as gpios in device tree so that we can use
> > > > the gpio as irq in linux ? Is there any example ?
> > > > - After configuration, can the gpios be used in linux using the
> > > > standard /sys/class/gpio ?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ran
> >
> > What do you mean by "general IRQ"? Do you mean external IRQs?
> >
> > > I am trying to use only IRQ4, so I have tried to configure it as
> > > following in device tree:
> > >
> > > device tree:
> > >
> > > intc at 0{
> > > compatible = "intc";
> > > #address-cells = <1>;
> > > #size-cells = <0>;
> > > reg = <0 0x1000>;
> > > interrupts = <4 0x8>;
> > > };
> > >
> > > But I don't see IRQ4 listed in the interrupt list:
> > > # cat /proc/interrupts
> >
> > /proc/interrupts shows virtual interrupts, which do not necessarily
> > correspond to anything in the device tree. In particular, virtual
> > interrupts
> > under 16 are reserved for ISA interrupts, and thus any mpic interrupts in
> > that range will be remapped.
> >
> > Additionally, putting an interrupt in the device tree does not make it
> > show
> > up in /proc/interrupts. Only interrupts for which a driver has
> > registered a
> > handler will show up in /proc/interrupts.
> >
> > -Scott
> >
> >
> Hi Scott,
>
> I meant external IRQ.
> I am actually trying to use irq 4 interrupt.
>
> I've added the above in device tree, and in kernel code I do:
> np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL,"hello");
Why are you looking for a node named "hello" when your node is named "intc"?
> if (np == NULL)
> {
> printk("Error node not found\n");
> }
> printk("Node np = 0x%0x\n",np); <-- Node np =
> 0xdfffe2f0
How could you possibly have gotten a non-NULL value for np, with the above
code and node, unless there's something you're not showing?
> virq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np,0);
>
> printk(" VIRQ: %d \n" , virq); <-- virq = 0
> !!??
virq = 0 means the lookup failed. Either there was no interrupt in the node,
or it couldn't be mapped for some reason.
> if (0 > (error=request_irq(virq, &hello_IRQHandler, IRQF_SHARED,
> "hello", &value))) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING"hello_IRQHandler: Init: Unable to allocate
> IRQ error = %d\n\n", error);
> return -1;
> <-- request_irq return -22 ....
> }
>
>
> But it fails in request_irq (it return -22).
> Also, irq_of_parse_and_map(np,0) returns 0. I think it should have returned
> 4.
I already explained why it won't return 4 (see the part about virtual
interrupts).
-Scott
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