Arnd,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 09:53:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Friday 29 August 2014 17:04:28 Thierry Reding wrote:

quoted

        static struct irq_chip *extn;

        void gic_arch_register(const struct irqchip *chip)
        {
                if (WARN(extn != NULL))
                        return;

                gic_chip.flags |= chip->flags;
                extn = chip;
        }

Any preferences, or other ideas? Adding Thomas and Jason, perhaps they
can provide more input on how to solve this.

I think the entire gic_arch_extn method is done in a rather odd way
and we should try to come up with a replacement.

These are the users at the moment:

arch/arm/mach-exynos/pm.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake = exynos_irq_set_wake;
arch/arm/mach-imx/gpc.c:        gic_arch_extn.irq_mask = imx_gpc_irq_mask;
arch/arm/mach-imx/gpc.c:        gic_arch_extn.irq_unmask = imx_gpc_irq_unmask;
arch/arm/mach-imx/gpc.c:        gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake = imx_gpc_irq_set_wake;
arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-wakeupgen.c:   gic_arch_extn.irq_mask = wakeupgen_mask;
arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-wakeupgen.c:   gic_arch_extn.irq_unmask = wakeupgen_unmask;
arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-wakeupgen.c:   gic_arch_extn.flags = IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND | IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_W
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/intc-sh73a0.c:   gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake = sh73a0_set_wake;
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c: gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake = r8a7779_set_wake;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_ack = tegra_ack;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_eoi = tegra_eoi;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_mask = tegra_mask;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_unmask = tegra_unmask;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_retrigger = tegra_retrigger;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake = tegra_set_wake;
arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c:      gic_arch_extn.flags = IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND;
arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu.c:      gic_arch_extn.flags = IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE | IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND;
arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c:    gic_arch_extn.flags = IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE | IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND;

I have to admit I don't really understand how these work, but what
I'd expect to work better is a way to turn the gic code into more
of a library that can be used by specialized drivers. In that
case you would register a driver for the tegra gic using IRQCHIP_DECLARE
and that driver would call a variation of gic_of_init() or gic_init_bases()
with the extra stuff as arguments.

We'd have to hack around the fact that all these platforms currently
don't list a specialized compatible string, but at least for the future
we should be able to do this without special hacks.

Thomas was talking about this just the other day:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1408271347210.3323 at nanos

thx,

Jason.