Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpio: dwapb: Convert driver to using the GPIO-lib-based IRQ-chip

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 04:38:55AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> GPIO-lib provides a ready-to-use interface to initialize an IRQ-chip on
> top of a GPIO chip. It's better from maintainability and readability
> point of view to use one instead of supporting a hand-written Generic
> IRQ-chip-based implementation. Moreover the new implementation won't
> cause much functional overhead but will provide a cleaner driver code.
> All of that makes the DW APB GPIO driver conversion pretty much justified
> especially seeing a tendency of the other GPIO drivers getting converted
> too.
> 
> Here is what we do in the framework of this commit to convert the driver
> to using the GPIO-lib-based IRQ-chip interface:
> 1) IRQ ack, mask and unmask callbacks are locally defined instead of
> using the Generic IRQ-chip ones.
> 2) An irq_chip structure instance is embedded into the dwapb_gpio
> private data. Note we can't have a static instance of that structure since
> GPIO-lib will add some hooks into it by calling gpiochip_set_irq_hooks().
> A warning about that would have been printed by the GPIO-lib code if we
> used a single irq_chip structure instance for multiple DW APB GPIO
> controllers.
> 3) Initialize the gpio_irq_chip structure embedded into the gpio_chip
> descriptor. By default there is no IRQ enabled so any event raised will be
> handled by the handle_bad_irq() IRQ flow handler. If DW APB GPIO IP-core
> is synthesized to have non-shared reference IRQ-lines, then as before the
> hierarchical and cascaded cases are distinguished by checking how many
> parental IRQs are defined. (Note irq_set_chained_handler_and_data() won't
> initialize IRQs, which descriptors couldn't be found.) If DW APB GPIO IP
> is used on a platform with shared IRQ line, then we simply won't let the
> GPIO-lib to initialize the parental IRQs, but will handle them locally in
> the driver.
> 4) Discard linear IRQ-domain and Generic IRQ-chip initialization, since
> GPIO-lib IRQ-chip interface will create a new domain and accept a standard
> IRQ-chip structure pointer based on the setting we provided in the
> gpio_irq_chip structure.
> 5) Manually select a proper IRQ flow handler directly in the
> irq_set_type() callback by calling irq_set_handler_locked() method, since
> an ordinary (not Generic) irq_chip descriptor is now utilized.
> 6) Discard the custom GPIO-to-IRQ mapping function since GPIO-lib defines
> the standard method gpiochip_to_irq(), which will be used anyway no matter
> whether the custom to_irq callback is specified or not.
> 7) Discard the acpi_gpiochip_{request,free}_interrupts()
> invocations, since they will be called from
> gpiochip_add_irqchip()/gpiochip_irqchip_remove() anyway.
> 8) Alter CONFIG_GPIO_DWAPB kernel config to select
> CONFIG_GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP instead of CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP.


...

One more thing...

>  static u32 dwapb_do_irq(struct dwapb_gpio *gpio)
>  {
> +	struct gpio_chip *gc = &gpio->ports[0].gc;
>  	unsigned long irq_status;
>  	irq_hw_number_t hwirq;
>  
>  	irq_status = dwapb_read(gpio, GPIO_INTSTATUS);
>  	for_each_set_bit(hwirq, &irq_status, 32) {
> -		int gpio_irq = irq_find_mapping(gpio->domain, hwirq);
> +		int gpio_irq = gc->to_irq(gc, hwirq);

Very, very few do this.
Can we stick with the original one?
(See plenty of other examples in the GPIO / pin control subsystems.

>  		u32 irq_type = irq_get_trigger_type(gpio_irq);
>  
>  		generic_handle_irq(gpio_irq);


>  }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko