[PATCH v2 11/11] drm/panthor: Process GPU events in IRQ context

From: Boris Brezillon

Date: Tue May 12 2026 - 07:42:56 EST


The current panthor_gpu_irq_handler() logic is already IRQ-safe
(no sleep or sleeping locks, spinlocks taken with irqsave in other
contexts, etc), so let's toggle the switch and make it an hard IRQ
handler.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
index b9c51f8a051d..04c8f23baf3f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gpu.c
@@ -86,10 +86,15 @@ static void panthor_gpu_l2_config_set(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
gpu_write(gpu->iomem, GPU_L2_CONFIG, l2_config);
}

-static void panthor_gpu_irq_handler(struct panthor_irq *pirq, u32 status)
+static irqreturn_t panthor_gpu_irq_raw_handler(int irq, void *data)
{
+ struct panthor_irq *pirq = data;
struct panthor_device *ptdev = pirq->ptdev;
struct panthor_gpu *gpu = ptdev->gpu;
+ u32 status = gpu_read(gpu->irq.iomem, INT_STAT);
+
+ if (!status)
+ return IRQ_NONE;

gpu_write(gpu->irq.iomem, INT_CLEAR, status);

@@ -115,11 +120,8 @@ static void panthor_gpu_irq_handler(struct panthor_irq *pirq, u32 status)
ptdev->gpu->pending_reqs &= ~status;
wake_up_all(&ptdev->gpu->reqs_acked);
}
-}

-static irqreturn_t panthor_gpu_irq_threaded_handler(int irq, void *data)
-{
- return panthor_irq_default_threaded_handler(data, panthor_gpu_irq_handler);
+ return IRQ_HANDLED;
}

/**
@@ -176,8 +178,7 @@ int panthor_gpu_init(struct panthor_device *ptdev)
ret = panthor_irq_request(ptdev, &ptdev->gpu->irq, irq,
GPU_INTERRUPTS_MASK,
ptdev->iomem + GPU_INT_BASE, "gpu",
- panthor_irq_default_raw_handler,
- panthor_gpu_irq_threaded_handler);
+ panthor_gpu_irq_raw_handler, NULL);
if (ret)
return ret;


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