Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] irqchip: Allow QCOM_PDC to be loadable as a permanent module

[John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:02 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quoting Marc Zyngier (2020-06-27 02:37:47)
> > On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 02:34:25 +0100,
> > John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:42 AM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is there any reason to use IRQCHIP_DECLARE if this can work as a
> > > > platform device driver?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hey! Thanks so much for the review!
> > >
> > > Mostly it was done this way to minimize the change in the non-module
> > > case. But if you'd rather avoid the #ifdefery I'll respin it without.
> >
> > That would certainly be my own preference. In general, IRQCHIP_DECLARE
> > and platform drivers should be mutually exclusive in the same driver:
> > if you can delay the probing and have it as a proper platform device,
> > then this should be the one true way.
> >
>
> Does it work? I haven't looked in detail but I worry that the child
> irqdomain (i.e. pinctrl-msm) would need to delay probing until this
> parent irqdomain is registered. Or has the hierarchical irqdomain code
> been updated to handle the parent child relationship and wait for things
> to probe or be loaded?

So I can't say I know the underlying hardware particularly well, but
I've been using this successfully on the Dragonboard 845c with both
static builds as well as module enabled builds.
And the same patch has been in the android-mainline and android-5.4
kernels for a while without objections from QCOM.

As to the probe ordering question, Saravana can maybe speak in more
detail if it's involved in this case but the fw_devlink code has
addressed many of these sorts of ordering issues.
However, I'm not sure if I'm lucking into the right probe order, as we
have been able to boot android-mainline w/ both fw_devlink=on and
fw_devlink=off (though in the =off case, we need
deferred_probe_timeout=30 to give us a bit more time for modules to
load after init starts).

thanks
-john