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Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi

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On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 10:55:20AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 02/09/15 10:33, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > On 08/28/2015 03:22 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
> >>> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. I wasn't looking for a quick and
> >>> dirty solution but my view of the problem is much simpler than yours so my
> >>> idea of a solution would look quick and dirty. I have a better appreciation of
> >>> the problem now and a way to approach it :-)
> >>>
> >>>  From DT point of view are we OK with this form then
> >>>
> >>>      coprocessor {
> >>>              interrupt-source = <&intc INT_SPEC COP_HWAFFINITY>;
> >>>              interrupt-sink = <&intc INT_SPEC CPU_HWAFFINITY>;
> >>>      }
> >>>
> >>> and if the root controller sends normal IPI as it sends normal device
> >>> interrupts then interrupt-sink can be a standard interrupts property (like in
> >>> my case)
> >>>
> >>>      coprocessor {
> >>>              interrupt-source = <&intc INT_SPEC COP_HWAFFINITY>;
> >>>              interrupts = <INT_SPEC>;
> >>>      }
> >>>
> >>> Does this look right to you? Is there something else that needs to be covered
> >>> still?
> >> I'm not an DT wizard. I leave that to the DT experts.
> >>   
> > 
> > Hi Marc Zyngier, Mark Rutland,
> > 
> > Any comments about the DT binding for the IPIs?
> > 
> > To recap, the proposal which is based on Marc Zyngier's is to use 
> > interrupt-source to represent an IPI from Linux CPU to a coprocessor and 
> > interrupt-sink to receive an IPI from coprocessor to Linux CPU. 
> > Hopefully the description above is self explanatory. Please let me know 
> > if you need more info. Thomas covered the routing, synthesising, and 
> > requesting parts in the core code. The remaining (high level) issue is 
> > how to describe the IPIs in DT.
> 
> I'm definitely *not* a DT expert! ;-) My initial binding proposal was
> only for wired interrupts, not for IPIs. There is definitely some common
> aspects, except for one part:
> 
> Who decides on the IPI number? So far, we've avoided encoding IPI
> numbers in the DT just like we don't encode MSIs, because they are
> programmable things. My feeling is that we shouldn't put the IPI number
> in the DT because the rest of the kernel uses them as well and could
> decide to use this particular IPI number for its own use: *clash*.

Agree.  The best way I've found to design DT bindings is to imagine
providing the DT to something other than Linux.  The DT should *only* be
describing the hardware.  As such, I think we should be describing the
connection here, and leaving the assignment up to the OS.

thx,

Jason.
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[PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-24 14:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-24 14:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-24 15:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2015-08-24 15:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-24 16:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-24 17:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-24 18:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2015-08-24 19:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-26 13:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-26 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-26 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-26 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-26 17:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-26 23:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-27 04:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-28 12:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-28 16:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-28 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-09-02 11:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2015-09-02 12:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-09-02 12:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2015-09-02 14:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-09-02 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2015-09-02 16:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> - 2015-09-02 14:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-08-24 17:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 01/10] irqchip: irq-mips-gic: export gic_send_ipi Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> - 2015-08-24 17:20 +0200

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