On 9/23/2019 1:52 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 22/09/2019 20:08, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 9/22/2019 5:38 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:15:42 -0700
>>> Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On some specific chips like 7211 we need to leave some interrupts
>>>> untouched/forwarded to the VPU which is another agent in the system
>>>> making use of that interrupt controller hardware (goes to both ARM GIC
>>>> and VPU L1 interrupt controller). Make that possible by using the
>>>> existing brcm,int-fwd-mask property.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>>>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c 
>>>> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c
>>>> index 0673a44bbdc2..811a34201dd4 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c
>>>> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct bcm7038_l1_chip {
>>>>    struct list_head        list;
>>>>    u32                     wake_mask[MAX_WORDS];
>>>>  #endif
>>>> +  u32                     irq_fwd_mask[MAX_WORDS];
>>>>    u8                      affinity[MAX_WORDS * IRQS_PER_WORD];
>>>>  };
>>>>  
>>>> @@ -265,6 +266,7 @@ static int __init bcm7038_l1_init_one(struct 
>>>> device_node *dn,
>>>>    resource_size_t sz;
>>>>    struct bcm7038_l1_cpu *cpu;
>>>>    unsigned int i, n_words, parent_irq;
>>>> +  int ret;
>>>>  
>>>>    if (of_address_to_resource(dn, idx, &res))
>>>>            return -EINVAL;
>>>> @@ -278,6 +280,14 @@ static int __init bcm7038_l1_init_one(struct 
>>>> device_node *dn,
>>>>    else if (intc->n_words != n_words)
>>>>            return -EINVAL;
>>>>  
>>>> +  ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn , "brcm,int-fwd-mask",
>>>
>>> What is the exact meaning of "fwd"? Forward? FirmWare Dementia?
>>
>> Here it is meant to be "forward", we have defined this property name
>> before for irq-bcm7120-l2.c and felt like reusing the same name to avoid
>> multiplying properties would be appropriate, see patch #4. If you prefer
>> something named brcm,firmware-configured-mask, let me know.
> 
> It's just a name, but I found it a bit confusing. Bah, never mind.
> 
>>>
>>>> +                                   intc->irq_fwd_mask, n_words);
>>>> +  if (ret != 0 && ret != -EINVAL) {
>>>> +          /* property exists but has the wrong number of words */
>>>> +          pr_err("invalid brcm,int-fwd-mask property\n");
>>>> +          return -EINVAL;
>>>> +  }
>>>> +
>>>>    cpu = intc->cpus[idx] = kzalloc(sizeof(*cpu) + n_words * sizeof(u32),
>>>>                                    GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>    if (!cpu)
>>>> @@ -288,8 +298,9 @@ static int __init bcm7038_l1_init_one(struct 
>>>> device_node *dn,
>>>>            return -ENOMEM;
>>>>  
>>>>    for (i = 0; i < n_words; i++) {
>>>> -          l1_writel(0xffffffff, cpu->map_base + reg_mask_set(intc, i));
>>>> -          cpu->mask_cache[i] = 0xffffffff;
>>>> +          l1_writel(0xffffffff & ~intc->irq_fwd_mask[i],
>>>> +                    cpu->map_base + reg_mask_set(intc, i));
>>>> +          cpu->mask_cache[i] = 0xffffffff & ~intc->irq_fwd_mask[i];
>>>
>>> I seem to remember that (0xffffffff & whatever) == whatever, as long as
>>> 'whatever' is a 32bit quantity. So what it this for?
>>
>> It is 0xffff_ffff & ~whatever here.
> 
> Which doesn't change anything.
> 
>> In the absence of this property
>> being specified, the data is all zeroed out, so we would have
>> 0xffff_ffff & 0xffff_ffff which is 0xffff_ffff. If this property is
>> specified, we would have one more or bits set, and it would be e.g.:
>> 0x100 so we would have 0xffff_ffff & ~(0x100) = 0xffff_feff which is
>> what we would want here to preserve whatever the firmware has already
>> configured.
> 
> OK, I must be stupid:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>       unsigned int v = 0x100;
>       printf ("%x\n", ~v);
> }
> maz@filthy-habit$ ./x
> fffffeff
> 
> You might as well OR it with zeroes, if you want.

Not sure I understand your point here.

We used to write 0xffff_ffff to both the hardware and the mask cache to
have all interrupts masked by default. Now we want to have some bits
optionally set to 0 (unmasked), based on the brcm,int-fwd-mask property,
which is what this patch achieves (or tries to). If we write, say
0xffff_feff to the hardware, which has a Write Only register behavior,
then we also want to have the mask cache be set to the same value for
consistency if nothing else. Am I failing at doing what I just described
and also failing at see it?
-- 
Florian

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