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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/3] genirq: Allow the irqchip state of an IRQ to be save/restored
On 13/04/15 17:18, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>
>
> On 08/04/15 18:48, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 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 <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
>>> Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> 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).
>
> +1
>
> Couple of Qualcomm board support are left incomplete due to missing
> drivers using these patches.
> Would be nice to get this patch mainlined sooner.

These patches are already in -next. Should everything go according to
plan, they should hit 4.1.

Thanks,

M.
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