I had issues with that plic driver. The current implementation wasn't
usable with driver using level sensitive interrupt together with the
IRQF_ONESHOT flag.
Those null were producing crashes in the chained_irq_enter function.
Filling them with dummy function fixed the issue.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 9:00 PM Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@sifive.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:40:34 PDT (-0700), Darius Rad wrote:
> > As per the existing comment, irq_mask and irq_unmask do not need
> > to do anything for the PLIC. However, the functions must exist
> > (the pointers cannot be NULL) as they are not optional, based on
> > the documentation (Documentation/core-api/genericirq.rst) as well
> > as existing usage (e.g., include/linux/irqchip/chained_irq.h).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darius Rad <dar...@bluespec.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c | 13 +++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > index cf755964f2f8..52d5169f924f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-sifive-plic.c
> > @@ -111,6 +111,13 @@ static void plic_irq_disable(struct irq_data *d)
> > plic_irq_toggle(cpu_possible_mask, d->hwirq, 0);
> > }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * There is no need to mask/unmask PLIC interrupts. They are "masked"
> > + * by reading claim and "unmasked" when writing it back.
> > + */
> > +static void plic_irq_mask(struct irq_data *d) { }
> > +static void plic_irq_unmask(struct irq_data *d) { }
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > static int plic_set_affinity(struct irq_data *d,
> > const struct cpumask *mask_val, bool force)
> > @@ -138,12 +145,10 @@ static int plic_set_affinity(struct irq_data *d,
> >
> > static struct irq_chip plic_chip = {
> > .name = "SiFive PLIC",
> > - /*
> > - * There is no need to mask/unmask PLIC interrupts. They are "masked"
> > - * by reading claim and "unmasked" when writing it back.
> > - */
> > .irq_enable = plic_irq_enable,
> > .irq_disable = plic_irq_disable,
> > + .irq_mask = plic_irq_mask,
> > + .irq_unmask = plic_irq_unmask,
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > .irq_set_affinity = plic_set_affinity,
> > #endif
>
> I can't find any other drivers in irqchip with empty irq_mask/irq_unmask. I'm
> not well versed in irqchip stuff, so I'll leave it up to the irqchip
> maintainers to comment on if this is the right way to do this. Either way,
> I'm
> assuming it'll go in through some the irqchip tree so
>
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@sifive.com>
>
> just to make sure I don't get in the way if it is the right way to do it :).
>
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