Is IRQ number 0 a valid IRQ ?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi Thomas,

This is something which I have been wondering for ever since there are
several places in the kernel where IRQ number 0 is treated as not being
valid (as no IRQ found mostly I guess). Where as other places do treat
IRQ number 0 as valid... ?

Some examples which treat IRQ 0 special:

drivers/base/platform.c: __platform_get_irq() :

        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_IRQ) && dev->dev.of_node) {
                int ret;

                ret = of_irq_get(dev->dev.of_node, num);
                if (ret > 0 || ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
                        return ret;
        }

Note if (ret > 0) not if (ret >= 0)

Other example: drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c: dwc3_gadget_get_irq() :

        if (!irq)
                irq = -EINVAL;

So 2 questions:

1) Is this special handling of IRQ number 0 valid code, or just
mostly some leftover from older days when IRQ number 0 was maybe
special ?

2) Either way (*) I think we (I volunteer) should document this somewhere,
other then adding a note about this to the platform_get_irq docs any
other place where it would be good to specify this?

Regards,

Hans


*) Either IRQ number 0 is not special and then we need to stop the
cargo-culting of treating it special, or it is special and then we
need to document that.