Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] RISC-V: Move to the new generic IRQ handler

From: Stafford Horne
Date: Thu Jan 25 2018 - 03:32:05 EST


On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 07:07:56PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> The old mechanism for handling IRQs on RISC-V was pretty ugly: the arch
> code looked at the Kconfig entry for our first-level irqchip driver and
> called into it directly.
>
> This patch uses the new 0generic IRQ handling infastructure, which
> essentially just deletes a bunch of code. This does add an additional
> load to the interrupt latency, but there's a lot of tuning left to be
> done there on RISC-V so I think it's OK for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 5 +++--
> arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c | 13 -------------
> 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index 2c6adf12713a..e67f42178059 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ config RISCV
> select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> select RISCV_IRQ_INTC
> select RISCV_TIMER
> + select MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER
>
> config MMU
> def_bool y
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> index 970460a0b492..e0d0fbe43ca2 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ generic-y += ftrace.h
> generic-y += futex.h
> generic-y += hardirq.h
> generic-y += hash.h
> +generic-y += handle_irq.h
> generic-y += hw_irq.h
> generic-y += ioctl.h
> generic-y += ioctls.h
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> index 7404ec222406..a79869151aea 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -166,8 +166,9 @@ ENTRY(handle_exception)
> /* Handle interrupts */
> slli a0, s4, 1
> srli a0, a0, 1

Hi Palmer,

Do we need these shifts into a0? I guess these were used when this was an arg
to do_IRQ, but no longer needed since you put pt_regs into a0 in the next
instruction.

Other than that it looks good, and thanks for looking at OpenRISC too.

Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>


> - move a1, sp /* pt_regs */
> - tail do_IRQ
> + move a0, sp /* pt_regs */
> + REG_L a1, handle_arch_irq
> + jr a1
> 1:
> /* Handle syscalls */
> li t0, EXC_SYSCALL
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c
> index 328718e8026e..b74cbfbce2d0 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -24,16 +24,3 @@ void __init init_IRQ(void)
> {
> irqchip_init();
> }
> -
> -asmlinkage void __irq_entry do_IRQ(unsigned int cause, struct pt_regs *regs)
> -{
> -#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_INTC
> - /*
> - * FIXME: We don't want a direct call to riscv_intc_irq here. The plan
> - * is to put an IRQ domain here and let the interrupt controller
> - * register with that, but I poked around the arm64 code a bit and
> - * there might be a better way to do it (ie, something fully generic).
> - */
> - riscv_intc_irq(cause, regs);
> -#endif
> -}
> --
> 2.13.6
>