Hi Linus,
Thank you for the feedback.
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 9:54 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 7:43 PM Lad Prabhakar
> <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Allow free() callback to be overridden from irq_domain_ops for
> > hierarchical chips.
> >
> > This allows drivers to free up resources which are allocated during
> > child_to_parent_hwirq()/populate_parent_alloc_arg() callbacks.
> >
> > On Renesas RZ/G2L platform a bitmap is maintained for TINT slots, a slot
> > is allocated in child_to_parent_hwirq() callback which is freed up in free
> > callback hence this override.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> So that function today looks like this:
>
> static void gpiochip_hierarchy_setup_domain_ops(struct irq_domain_ops *ops)
> {
> ops->activate = gpiochip_irq_domain_activate;
> ops->deactivate = gpiochip_irq_domain_deactivate;
> ops->alloc = gpiochip_hierarchy_irq_domain_alloc;
> ops->free = irq_domain_free_irqs_common;
>
> /*
> * We only allow overriding the translate() function for
> * hierarchical chips, and this should only be done if the user
> * really need something other than 1:1 translation.
> */
> if (!ops->translate)
> ops->translate = gpiochip_hierarchy_irq_domain_translate;
> }
>
> (...)
> - ops->free = irq_domain_free_irqs_common;
> (...)
> > + if (!ops->free)
> > + ops->free = irq_domain_free_irqs_common;
>
> Marc Z is working on cleaning up the way that gpiolib is (ab)using
> irqchips. We definitely need his ACK if we do things like this.
> This doesn't look like one of the big offenders to me, but I want
> to make sure we don't create new problems while Marc is trying
> to solve the old ones.
>
Agreed, I had a discussion with Marc on v3 series [0].
[0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-renesas-soc/patch/20220511183210.5248-4-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cheers,
Prabhakar
