commit 7f00be96f125 ("of: property: Add device link support for
interrupt-parent, dmas and -gpio(s)") started adding device links for
the interrupt-parent property. Later, commit f265f06af194 ("of:
property: Fix fw_devlink handling of interrupts/interrupts-extended")
added full support for parsing the interrupts and interrupts-extended
properties, which includes looking up the node of the parent domain.
This made the handler for the interrupt-parent property redundant.
In fact, creating device links based solely on interrupt-parent is
problematic, because it can create spurious cycles. A node may have
this property without itself being an interrupt controller or consumer.
For example, this property is often present in the root node or a /soc
bus node to set the default interrupt parent for child nodes. However,
it is incorrect for the bus to depend on the interrupt controller, as
some of the bus's childre may not be interrupt consumers at all or may
have a different interrupt parent.
Resolving these spurious dependency cycles can cause an incorrect probe
order for interrupt controller drivers. This was observed on a RISC-V
system with both an APLIC and IMSIC under /soc, where interrupt-parent
in /soc points to the APLIC, and the APLIC msi-parent points to the
IMSIC. fw_devlink found three dependency cycles and attempted to probe
the APLIC before the IMSIC. After applying this patch, there were no
dependency cycles and the probe order was correct.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/of/property.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
index 11b922fde7af..7bd8390f2fba 100644
--- a/drivers/of/property.c
+++ b/drivers/of/property.c
@@ -1213,7 +1213,6 @@ DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(iommus, "iommus", "#iommu-cells")
DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(mboxes, "mboxes", "#mbox-cells")
DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(io_channels, "io-channels", "#io-channel-cells")
DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(io_backends, "io-backends", "#io-backend-cells")
-DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(interrupt_parent, "interrupt-parent", NULL)
DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(dmas, "dmas", "#dma-cells")
DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(power_domains, "power-domains", "#power-domain-cells")
DEFINE_SIMPLE_PROP(hwlocks, "hwlocks", "#hwlock-cells")
@@ -1359,7 +1358,6 @@ static const struct supplier_bindings of_supplier_bindings[] = {
{ .parse_prop = parse_mboxes, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_io_channels, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_io_backends, },
- { .parse_prop = parse_interrupt_parent, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_dmas, .optional = true, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_power_domains, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_hwlocks, },
--
2.45.1
