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authorLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>2013-06-22 14:10:59 +0200
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2013-06-28 14:43:05 +1000
commit02b6298541f8a711b3f9cf589f7e508bd5cb99d8 (patch)
tree56f43b7bf2756b491d41334a575840fd31fdc265 /Documentation/DocBook
parentda34242e5e0638312130f5bd5d2d277afbc6f806 (diff)
drm: Improve manual IRQ installation documentation
Define the rules for using irqs from drm drivers. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
index 91ee107d5d0..a6080941f5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
@@ -186,11 +186,12 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ</term><term>DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED</term>
<listitem><para>
- DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ indicates whether the driver has an IRQ handler. The
- DRM core will automatically register an interrupt handler when the
- flag is set. DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED indicates whether the device &amp;
- handler support shared IRQs (note that this is required of PCI
- drivers).
+ DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ indicates whether the driver has an IRQ handler
+ managed by the DRM Core. The core will support simple IRQ handler
+ installation when the flag is set. The installation process is
+ described in <xref linkend="drm-irq-registration"/>.</para>
+ <para>DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED indicates whether the device &amp; handler
+ support shared IRQs (note that this is required of PCI drivers).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -344,50 +345,71 @@ char *date;</synopsis>
The DRM core tries to facilitate IRQ handler registration and
unregistration by providing <function>drm_irq_install</function> and
<function>drm_irq_uninstall</function> functions. Those functions only
- support a single interrupt per device.
- </para>
- <!--!Fdrivers/char/drm/drm_irq.c drm_irq_install-->
- <para>
- Both functions get the device IRQ by calling
- <function>drm_dev_to_irq</function>. This inline function will call a
- bus-specific operation to retrieve the IRQ number. For platform devices,
- <function>platform_get_irq</function>(..., 0) is used to retrieve the
- IRQ number.
- </para>
- <para>
- <function>drm_irq_install</function> starts by calling the
- <methodname>irq_preinstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
- is optional and must make sure that the interrupt will not get fired by
- clearing all pending interrupt flags or disabling the interrupt.
- </para>
- <para>
- The IRQ will then be requested by a call to
- <function>request_irq</function>. If the DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED driver
- feature flag is set, a shared (IRQF_SHARED) IRQ handler will be
- requested.
- </para>
- <para>
- The IRQ handler function must be provided as the mandatory irq_handler
- driver operation. It will get passed directly to
- <function>request_irq</function> and thus has the same prototype as all
- IRQ handlers. It will get called with a pointer to the DRM device as the
- second argument.
- </para>
- <para>
- Finally the function calls the optional
- <methodname>irq_postinstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
- usually enables interrupts (excluding the vblank interrupt, which is
- enabled separately), but drivers may choose to enable/disable interrupts
- at a different time.
- </para>
- <para>
- <function>drm_irq_uninstall</function> is similarly used to uninstall an
- IRQ handler. It starts by waking up all processes waiting on a vblank
- interrupt to make sure they don't hang, and then calls the optional
- <methodname>irq_uninstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
- must disable all hardware interrupts. Finally the function frees the IRQ
- by calling <function>free_irq</function>.
+ support a single interrupt per device, devices that use more than one
+ IRQs need to be handled manually.
</para>
+ <sect4>
+ <title>Managed IRQ Registration</title>
+ <para>
+ Both the <function>drm_irq_install</function> and
+ <function>drm_irq_uninstall</function> functions get the device IRQ by
+ calling <function>drm_dev_to_irq</function>. This inline function will
+ call a bus-specific operation to retrieve the IRQ number. For platform
+ devices, <function>platform_get_irq</function>(..., 0) is used to
+ retrieve the IRQ number.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <function>drm_irq_install</function> starts by calling the
+ <methodname>irq_preinstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
+ is optional and must make sure that the interrupt will not get fired by
+ clearing all pending interrupt flags or disabling the interrupt.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The IRQ will then be requested by a call to
+ <function>request_irq</function>. If the DRIVER_IRQ_SHARED driver
+ feature flag is set, a shared (IRQF_SHARED) IRQ handler will be
+ requested.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The IRQ handler function must be provided as the mandatory irq_handler
+ driver operation. It will get passed directly to
+ <function>request_irq</function> and thus has the same prototype as all
+ IRQ handlers. It will get called with a pointer to the DRM device as the
+ second argument.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Finally the function calls the optional
+ <methodname>irq_postinstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
+ usually enables interrupts (excluding the vblank interrupt, which is
+ enabled separately), but drivers may choose to enable/disable interrupts
+ at a different time.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <function>drm_irq_uninstall</function> is similarly used to uninstall an
+ IRQ handler. It starts by waking up all processes waiting on a vblank
+ interrupt to make sure they don't hang, and then calls the optional
+ <methodname>irq_uninstall</methodname> driver operation. The operation
+ must disable all hardware interrupts. Finally the function frees the IRQ
+ by calling <function>free_irq</function>.
+ </para>
+ </sect4>
+ <sect4>
+ <title>Manual IRQ Registration</title>
+ <para>
+ Drivers that require multiple interrupt handlers can't use the managed
+ IRQ registration functions. In that case IRQs must be registered and
+ unregistered manually (usually with the <function>request_irq</function>
+ and <function>free_irq</function> functions, or their devm_* equivalent).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When manually registering IRQs, drivers must not set the DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ
+ driver feature flag, and must not provide the
+ <methodname>irq_handler</methodname> driver operation. They must set the
+ <structname>drm_device</structname> <structfield>irq_enabled</structfield>
+ field to 1 upon registration of the IRQs, and clear it to 0 after
+ unregistering the IRQs.
+ </para>
+ </sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Memory Manager Initialization</title>