You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
genirq/msi: Allow level-triggered MSIs to be exposed by MSI providers
So far, MSIs have been used to signal edge-triggered interrupts, as
a write is a good model for an edge (you can't "unwrite" something).
On the other hand, routing zillions of wires in an SoC because you
need level interrupts is a bit extreme.
People have come up with a variety of schemes to support this, which
involves sending two messages: one to signal the interrupt, and one
to clear it. Since the kernel cannot represent this, we've ended up
with side-band mechanisms that are pretty awful.
Instead, let's acknoledge the requirement, and ensure that, under the
right circumstances, the irq_compose_msg and irq_write_msg can take
as a parameter an array of two messages instead of a pointer to a
single one. We also add some checking that the compose method only
clobbers the second message if the MSI domain has been created with
the MSI_FLAG_LEVEL_CAPABLE flags.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180508121438.11301-2-marc.zyngier@arm.com
0 commit comments