Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] irqchip/sifive-plic: Add support for Renesas RZ/Five SoC

["Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>]

Hi Geert,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 9:53 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 2:19 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:38:18 +0100,
> > "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 9:56 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 01:43:26 +0100,
> > > > Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> wrote:
> > > > > The Renesas RZ/Five SoC has a RISC-V AX45MP AndesCore with NCEPLIC100. The
> > > > > NCEPLIC100 supports both edge-triggered and level-triggered interrupts. In
> > > > > case of edge-triggered interrupts NCEPLIC100 ignores the next interrupt
> > > > > edge until the previous completion message has been received and
> > > > > NCEPLIC100 doesn't support pending interrupt counter, hence losing the
> > > > > interrupts if not acknowledged in time.
> > > > >
> > > > > So the workaround for edge-triggered interrupts to be handled correctly
> > > > > and without losing is that it needs to be acknowledged first and then
> > > > > handler must be run so that we don't miss on the next edge-triggered
> > > > > interrupt.
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch adds a new compatible string for Renesas RZ/Five SoC and adds
> > > > > support to change interrupt flow based on the interrupt type. It also
> > > > > implements irq_ack and irq_set_type callbacks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
>
> > > > > +     if (of_device_is_compatible(node, "renesas,r9a07g043-plic")) {
> > > > > +             priv->of_data = RENESAS_R9A07G043_PLIC;
> > > > > +             plic_chip.name = "Renesas RZ/Five PLIC";
> > > >
> > > > NAK. The irq_chip structure isn't the place for platform marketing.
> > > > This is way too long anyway (and same for the edge version), and you
> > > > even sent me a patch to make that structure const...
> > > >
> > > My bad will drop this.
> >
> > And why you're at it, please turn this rather random 'of_data' into
> > something like:
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > index bb87e4c3b88e..cd1683b77caf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ struct plic_priv {
> >         struct cpumask lmask;
> >         struct irq_domain *irqdomain;
> >         void __iomem *regs;
> > +       enum {
> > +               VANILLA_PLIC,
> > +               RENESAS_R9A07G043_PLIC,
> > +       } flavour;
> >  };
> >
> >  struct plic_handler {
> >
> > to give some structure to the whole thing, because I'm pretty sure
> > we'll see more braindead implementations as time goes by.
>
> What about using a feature flag (e.g. had_edge_irqs) instead?
>

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
index 9f16833dcb41..247c3c98b655 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@
 #define        PLIC_DISABLE_THRESHOLD          0x7
 #define        PLIC_ENABLE_THRESHOLD           0

+#define PLIC_QUIRK_EDGE_INTERRUPT      BIT(0)

 struct plic_priv {
        struct cpumask lmask;
        struct irq_domain *irqdomain;
        void __iomem *regs;
+       u32 plic_quirks;
 };

What about something like above?

Cheers,
Prabhakar