Re: [PATCH 0/3] simulated interrupts

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

2017-07-19 14:25 GMT+02:00 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
>> Some frameworks (e.g. iio, gpiolib) use irq_work to implement simulated
>> interrupts that can be 'fired' from process context when needed and
>> requested just like normal interrupts. This is useful for testing and
>> development purposes.
>>
>> Currently this code is reimplemented by every user. This series
>> proposes to add a new set of functions that can be used by drivers
>> that want to simulate interrupts without having to duplicate any
>> boilerplate code.
>>
>> The first patch adds a simple irq simulator framework. The second
>> extends it with resource management. The third uses the new
>> functionality in the gpio-mockup testing driver.
>>
>> NOTE: The next candidate for using this API would be iio-dummy-evgen.
>
> I like the general idea - have not looked at the code yet. Just a quick
> question: How many copies/variants of this scheme do we have in tree?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx

Currently there are two: iio and gpiolib basically duplicate the same
code in their respective testing drivers. I only used irq_sim in
gpio-mockup in this series as an example and to see if there's any
interest in merging it before spending time on iio-dummy-evgen.

In the future this could be used in any framework that uses interrupts
and wants to test the irq code paths without touching any specific
hardware.

Thanks,
Bartosz