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* irqdomain: Introduce new interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomainsJiang Liu2014-11-231-0/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We plan to use hierarchy irqdomain to suppport CPU vector assignment, interrupt remapping controller, IO-APIC controller, MSI interrupt and hypertransport interrupt etc on x86 platforms. So extend irqdomain interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomain. There are already many clients of current irqdomain interfaces. To minimize the changes, we choose to introduce new version 2 interfaces to support hierarchy instead of extending existing irqdomain interfaces. According to Thomas's suggestion, the most important design decision is to build hierarchy struct irq_data to support hierarchy irqdomain, so hierarchy irqdomain related data could be saved in struct irq_data. With support of hierarchy irq_data, we could also support stacked irq_chips. This is most useful in case of set_affinity(). The new hierarchy irqdomain introduces following interfaces: 1) irq_domain_alloc_irqs()/irq_domain_free_irqs(): allocate/release IRQ and related resources. 2) __irq_domain_alloc_irqs(): a special version to support legacy IRQs. 3) irq_domain_activate_irq()/irq_domain_deactivate_irq(): program interrupt controllers to activate/deactivate interrupt. There are also several help functions to ease irqdomain implemenations: 1) irq_domain_get_irq_data(): get irq_data associated with a specific irqdomain. 2) irq_domain_set_hwirq_and_chip(): save irqdomain specific data into irq_data. 3) irq_domain_alloc_irqs_parent()/irq_domain_free_irqs_parent(): invoke parent irqdomain's alloc/free callbacks. We also changed irq_startup()/irq_shutdown() to invoke irq_domain_activate_irq()/irq_domain_deactivate_irq() to program interrupt controller when start/stop interrupts. [ tglx: Folded parts of the later patch series in ] Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* genirq: Improve documentation to match current implementationJiang Liu2014-05-271-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401178092-1228-3-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* doc: fix some typosXishi Qiu2013-12-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Fix some typos in three documentations. Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* irqdomain: update documentationLinus Walleij2012-12-051-1/+33
| | | | | | | | | This updates the IRQdomain documentation a bit, by adding a more verbose explanation to why we need this, and by adding some extended documentation of the irq_domain_simple() usecase. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* irq_domain: Standardise legacy/linear domain selectionMark Brown2012-07-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A large proportion of interrupt controllers that support legacy mappings do so because non-DT systems need to use fixed IRQ numbers when registering devices via buses but can otherwise use a linear mapping. The interrupt controller itself typically is not affected by the mapping used and best practice is to use a linear mapping where possible so drivers frequently select at runtime depending on if a legacy range has been allocated to them. Standardise this behaviour by providing irq_domain_register_simple() which will allocate a linear mapping unless a positive first_irq is provided in which case it will fall back to a legacy mapping. This helps make best practice for irq_domain adoption clearer. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* irq_domain: add documentation and MAINTAINERS entry.Grant Likely2012-02-141-0/+117
Documentation for irq_domain library which will be created in subsequent patches. v4: editorial changes Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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