On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a number of cases where a kernel subsystem may want to > introspect the state of an interrupt at the irqchip level: > > - When a peripheral is shared between virtual machines, > its interrupt state becomes part of the guest's state, > and must be switched accordingly. KVM on arm/arm64 requires > this for its guest-visible timer > - Some GPIO controllers seem to require peeking into the > interrupt controller they are connected to to report > their internal state > > This seem to be a pattern that is common enough for the core code > to try and support this without too many horrible hacks. Introduce > a pair of accessors (irq_get_irqchip_state/irq_set_irqchip_state) > to retrieve the bits that can be of interest to another subsystem: > pending, active, and masked. > > - irq_get_irqchip_state returns the state of the interrupt according > to a parameter set to IRQCHIP_STATE_PENDING, IRQCHIP_STATE_ACTIVE, > IRQCHIP_STATE_MASKED or IRQCHIP_STATE_LINE_LEVEL. > - irq_set_irqchip_state similarly sets the state of the interrupt. > > Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> > ---
Sorry for bothering you Thomas, but we have a couple of driver for the Qualcomm platforms that depends on this patch (the line level part). Could you please have a look at it? Thanks, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
