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authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>2015-03-18 11:01:22 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-04-08 23:28:28 +0200
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genirq: Allow the irqchip state of an IRQ to be save/restored
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. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com> Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@codeaurora.org> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Phong Vo <pvo@apm.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Tin Huynh <tnhuynh@apm.com> Cc: Y Vo <yvo@apm.com> Cc: Toan Le <toanle@apm.com> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426676484-21812-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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