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Subject[PATCH 0/7] Level-triggered MSI support
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This series is a first shot at teaching the kernel about the oxymoron
expressed in $SUBJECT. Over the past couple of years, we've seen some
SoCs coming up with ways of signalling level interrupts using a new
flavor of MSIs, where the MSI controller uses two distinct messages:
one that raises a virtual line, and one that lowers it. The target MSI
controller is in charge of maintaining the state of the line.

This allows for a much simplified HW signal routing (no need to have
hundreds of discrete lines to signal level interrupts if you already
have a memory bus), but results in a departure from the current idea
the kernel has of MSIs.

This series takes a minimal approach to the problem, which is to allow
MSI controllers to use not only one, but up to two messages at a
time. This is controlled by a flag exposed at MSI irq domain creation,
and is only supported with platform MSI.

The rest of the series repaints the Marvell ICU/GICP drivers which
already make use of this feature with a side-channel, and adds support
for the same feature in GICv3. A side effect of the last GICv3 patch
is that you can also use SPIs to signal PCI MSIs. This is a last
resort measure for SoCs where the ITS is unusable for unspeakable
reasons.

Marc Zyngier (7):
genirq/msi: Allow level-triggered MSIs to be exposed by MSI providers
genirq/msi: Limit level-triggered MSI to platform devices
irqchip/mvebu-gicp: Use level-triggered MSIs between ICU and GICP
dma-iommu: Fix compilation when !CONFIG_IOMMU_DMA
irqchip/gic-v3: Add support for Message Based Interrupts as an MSI
controller
irqchip/gic-v3: Add PCI/MSI support to the GICv3 MBI sub-driver
dt-bindings/gic-v3: Add documentation for MBI support

.../bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt | 17 +
drivers/base/platform-msi.c | 3 +
drivers/irqchip/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-mbi.c | 343 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 6 +
drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp.c | 37 +--
drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp.h | 12 -
drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu.c | 33 +-
drivers/pci/msi.c | 3 +
include/linux/dma-iommu.h | 1 +
include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h | 1 +
include/linux/msi.h | 2 +
kernel/irq/msi.c | 32 +-
13 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-mbi.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-gicp.h

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