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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/irq/chip.c, branch v3.4.73</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>genirq: export handle_edge_irq() and irq_to_desc()</title>
<updated>2012-05-15T15:10:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-13T10:13:15+00:00</published>
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Export handle_edge_irq() and irq_to_desc() to modules to allow them to
do things such as

	__irq_set_handler_locked(...., handle_edge_irq);

This fixes

	ERROR: "handle_edge_irq" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!
	ERROR: "irq_to_desc" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!

when gpio-pch is being built as a module.

This was introduced by commit df9541a60af0 ("gpio: pch9: Use proper flow
type handlers") that added

	__irq_set_handler_locked(d-&gt;irq, handle_edge_irq);

but handle_edge_irq() was not exported for modules (and inlined
__irq_set_handler_locked() requires irq_to_desc() exported as well)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Export handle_edge_irq() and irq_to_desc() to modules to allow them to
do things such as

	__irq_set_handler_locked(...., handle_edge_irq);

This fixes

	ERROR: "handle_edge_irq" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!
	ERROR: "irq_to_desc" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!

when gpio-pch is being built as a module.

This was introduced by commit df9541a60af0 ("gpio: pch9: Use proper flow
type handlers") that added

	__irq_set_handler_locked(d-&gt;irq, handle_edge_irq);

but handle_edge_irq() was not exported for modules (and inlined
__irq_set_handler_locked() requires irq_to_desc() exported as well)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-20T17:29:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-20T17:29:15+00:00</published>
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Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&amp;key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
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Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&amp;key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core</title>
<updated>2012-03-13T15:35:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-13T15:34:48+00:00</published>
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Reason: Get upstream fixes integrated before further modifications.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Reason: Get upstream fixes integrated before further modifications.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling</title>
<updated>2012-03-06T12:33:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>linux@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-05T23:07:25+00:00</published>
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In 2008, commit 0c5d1eb77a8be ("genirq: record trigger type") modified the
way set_irq_type() handles the 'no trigger' condition.  However, this has
an adverse effect on PCMCIA support on Intel StrongARM and probably PXA
platforms.

PCMCIA has several status signals on the socket which can trigger
interrupts; some of these status signals depend on the card's mode
(whether it is configured in memory or IO mode).  For example, cards have
a 'Ready/IRQ' signal: in memory mode, this provides an indication to
PCMCIA that the card has finished its power up initialization.  In IO
mode, it provides the device interrupt signal.  Other status signals
switch between on-board battery status and loud speaker output.

In classical PCMCIA implementations, where you have a specific socket
controller, the controller provides a method to mask interrupts from the
socket, and importantly ignore any state transitions on the pins which
correspond with interrupts once masked.  This masking prevents unwanted
events caused by the removal and application of socket power being
forwarded.

However, on platforms where there is no socket controller, the PCMCIA
status and interrupt signals are routed to standard edge-triggered GPIOs. 
These GPIOs can be configured to interrupt on rising edge, falling edge,
or never.  This is where the problems start.

Edge triggered interrupts are required to record events while disabled via
the usual methods of {free,request,disable,enable}_irq() to prevent
problems with dropped interrupts (eg, the 8390 driver uses disable_irq()
to defer the delivery of interrupts).  As a result, these interfaces can
not be used to implement the desired behaviour.

The side effect of this is that if the 'Ready/IRQ' GPIO is disabled via
disable_irq() on suspend, and enabled via enable_irq() after resume, we
will record the state transitions caused by powering events as valid
interrupts, and foward them to the card driver, which may attempt to
access a card which is not powered up.

This leads delays resume while drivers spin in their interrupt handlers,
and complaints from drivers before they realize what's happened.

Moreover, in the case of the 'Ready/IRQ' signal, this is requested and
freed by the card driver itself; the PCMCIA core has no idea whether the
interrupt is requested, and, therefore, whether a call to disable_irq()
would be valid.  (We tried this around 2.4.17 / 2.5.1 kernel era, and
ended up throwing it out because of this problem.)

Therefore, it was decided back in around 2002 to disable the edge
triggering instead, resulting in all state transitions on the GPIO being
ignored.  That's what we actually need the hardware to do.

The commit above changes this behaviour; it explicitly prevents the 'no
trigger' state being selected.

The reason that request_irq() does not accept the 'no trigger' state is
for compatibility with existing drivers which do not provide their desired
triggering configuration.  The set_irq_type() function is 'new' and not
used by non-trigger aware drivers.

Therefore, revert this change, and restore previously working platforms
back to their former state.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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In 2008, commit 0c5d1eb77a8be ("genirq: record trigger type") modified the
way set_irq_type() handles the 'no trigger' condition.  However, this has
an adverse effect on PCMCIA support on Intel StrongARM and probably PXA
platforms.

PCMCIA has several status signals on the socket which can trigger
interrupts; some of these status signals depend on the card's mode
(whether it is configured in memory or IO mode).  For example, cards have
a 'Ready/IRQ' signal: in memory mode, this provides an indication to
PCMCIA that the card has finished its power up initialization.  In IO
mode, it provides the device interrupt signal.  Other status signals
switch between on-board battery status and loud speaker output.

In classical PCMCIA implementations, where you have a specific socket
controller, the controller provides a method to mask interrupts from the
socket, and importantly ignore any state transitions on the pins which
correspond with interrupts once masked.  This masking prevents unwanted
events caused by the removal and application of socket power being
forwarded.

However, on platforms where there is no socket controller, the PCMCIA
status and interrupt signals are routed to standard edge-triggered GPIOs. 
These GPIOs can be configured to interrupt on rising edge, falling edge,
or never.  This is where the problems start.

Edge triggered interrupts are required to record events while disabled via
the usual methods of {free,request,disable,enable}_irq() to prevent
problems with dropped interrupts (eg, the 8390 driver uses disable_irq()
to defer the delivery of interrupts).  As a result, these interfaces can
not be used to implement the desired behaviour.

The side effect of this is that if the 'Ready/IRQ' GPIO is disabled via
disable_irq() on suspend, and enabled via enable_irq() after resume, we
will record the state transitions caused by powering events as valid
interrupts, and foward them to the card driver, which may attempt to
access a card which is not powered up.

This leads delays resume while drivers spin in their interrupt handlers,
and complaints from drivers before they realize what's happened.

Moreover, in the case of the 'Ready/IRQ' signal, this is requested and
freed by the card driver itself; the PCMCIA core has no idea whether the
interrupt is requested, and, therefore, whether a call to disable_irq()
would be valid.  (We tried this around 2.4.17 / 2.5.1 kernel era, and
ended up throwing it out because of this problem.)

Therefore, it was decided back in around 2002 to disable the edge
triggering instead, resulting in all state transitions on the GPIO being
ignored.  That's what we actually need the hardware to do.

The commit above changes this behaviour; it explicitly prevents the 'no
trigger' state being selected.

The reason that request_irq() does not accept the 'no trigger' state is
for compatibility with existing drivers which do not provide their desired
triggering configuration.  The set_irq_type() function is 'new' and not
used by non-trigger aware drivers.

Therefore, revert this change, and restore previously working platforms
back to their former state.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2012-03-05T08:20:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-05T08:20:08+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-record.c
	tools/perf/builtin-top.c
	tools/perf/perf.h
	tools/perf/util/top.h

Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-record.c
	tools/perf/builtin-top.c
	tools/perf/perf.h
	tools/perf/util/top.h

Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Handle pending irqs in irq_startup()</title>
<updated>2012-02-15T10:56:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-08T10:57:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b4bc724e82e80478cba5fe9825b62e71ddf78757'/>
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An interrupt might be pending when irq_startup() is called, but the
startup code does not invoke the resend logic. In some cases this
prevents the device from issuing another interrupt which renders the
device non functional.

Call the resend function in irq_startup() to keep things going.

Reported-and-tested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<pre>
An interrupt might be pending when irq_startup() is called, but the
startup code does not invoke the resend logic. In some cases this
prevents the device from issuing another interrupt which renders the
device non functional.

Call the resend function in irq_startup() to keep things going.

Reported-and-tested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken</title>
<updated>2012-02-15T10:56:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-07T16:58:03+00:00</published>
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When the primary handler of an interrupt which is marked IRQ_ONESHOT
returns IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_NONE, then the interrupt thread is not
woken and the unmask logic of the interrupt line is never
invoked. This keeps the interrupt masked forever.

This was not noticed as most IRQ_ONESHOT users wake the thread
unconditionally (usually because they cannot access the underlying
device from hard interrupt context). Though this behaviour was nowhere
documented and not necessarily intentional. Some drivers can avoid the
thread wakeup in certain cases and run into the situation where the
interrupt line s kept masked.

Handle it gracefully.

Reported-and-tested-by: Lothar Wassmann &lt;lw@karo-electronics.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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When the primary handler of an interrupt which is marked IRQ_ONESHOT
returns IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_NONE, then the interrupt thread is not
woken and the unmask logic of the interrupt line is never
invoked. This keeps the interrupt masked forever.

This was not noticed as most IRQ_ONESHOT users wake the thread
unconditionally (usually because they cannot access the underlying
device from hard interrupt context). Though this behaviour was nowhere
documented and not necessarily intentional. Some drivers can avoid the
thread wakeup in certain cases and run into the situation where the
interrupt line s kept masked.

Handle it gracefully.

Reported-and-tested-by: Lothar Wassmann &lt;lw@karo-electronics.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<title>tracing/softirq: Move __raise_softirq_irqoff() out of header</title>
<updated>2012-02-03T14:48:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-26T01:18:55+00:00</published>
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The __raise_softirq_irqoff() contains a tracepoint. As tracepoints in headers
can cause issues, and not to mention, bloats the kernel when they are
in a static inline, it is best to move the function that contains the
tracepoint out of the header and into softirq.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120118120711.GB14863@elte.hu

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The __raise_softirq_irqoff() contains a tracepoint. As tracepoints in headers
can cause issues, and not to mention, bloats the kernel when they are
in a static inline, it is best to move the function that contains the
tracepoint out of the header and into softirq.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120118120711.GB14863@elte.hu

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Add support for per-cpu dev_id interrupts</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T13:35:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-23T16:03:06+00:00</published>
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The ARM GIC interrupt controller offers per CPU interrupts (PPIs),
which are usually used to connect local timers to each core. Each CPU
has its own private interface to the GIC, and only sees the PPIs that
are directly connect to it.

While these timers are separate devices and have a separate interrupt
line to a core, they all use the same IRQ number.

For these devices, request_irq() is not the right API as it assumes
that an IRQ number is visible by a number of CPUs (through the
affinity setting), but makes it very awkward to express that an IRQ
number can be handled by all CPUs, and yet be a different interrupt
line on each CPU, requiring a different dev_id cookie to be passed
back to the handler.

The *_percpu_irq() functions is designed to overcome these
limitations, by providing a per-cpu dev_id vector:

int request_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
		   const char *devname, void __percpu *percpu_dev_id);
void free_percpu_irq(unsigned int, void __percpu *);
int setup_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *new);
void remove_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *act);
void enable_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq);
void disable_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq);

The API has a number of limitations:
- no interrupt sharing
- no threading
- common handler across all the CPUs

Once the interrupt is requested using setup_percpu_irq() or
request_percpu_irq(), it must be enabled by each core that wishes its
local interrupt to be delivered.

Based on an initial patch by Thomas Gleixner.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316793788-14500-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The ARM GIC interrupt controller offers per CPU interrupts (PPIs),
which are usually used to connect local timers to each core. Each CPU
has its own private interface to the GIC, and only sees the PPIs that
are directly connect to it.

While these timers are separate devices and have a separate interrupt
line to a core, they all use the same IRQ number.

For these devices, request_irq() is not the right API as it assumes
that an IRQ number is visible by a number of CPUs (through the
affinity setting), but makes it very awkward to express that an IRQ
number can be handled by all CPUs, and yet be a different interrupt
line on each CPU, requiring a different dev_id cookie to be passed
back to the handler.

The *_percpu_irq() functions is designed to overcome these
limitations, by providing a per-cpu dev_id vector:

int request_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
		   const char *devname, void __percpu *percpu_dev_id);
void free_percpu_irq(unsigned int, void __percpu *);
int setup_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *new);
void remove_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *act);
void enable_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq);
void disable_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq);

The API has a number of limitations:
- no interrupt sharing
- no threading
- common handler across all the CPUs

Once the interrupt is requested using setup_percpu_irq() or
request_percpu_irq(), it must be enabled by each core that wishes its
local interrupt to be delivered.

Based on an initial patch by Thomas Gleixner.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316793788-14500-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Make irq_shutdown() symmetric vs. irq_startup again</title>
<updated>2011-09-12T07:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-11T11:59:27+00:00</published>
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If an irq_chip provides .irq_shutdown(), but neither of .irq_disable() or
.irq_mask(), free_irq() crashes when jumping to NULL.
Fix this by only trying .irq_disable() and .irq_mask() if there's no
.irq_shutdown() provided.

This revives the symmetry with irq_startup(), which tries .irq_startup(),
.irq_enable(), and irq_unmask(), and makes it consistent with the comment for
irq_chip.irq_shutdown() in &lt;linux/irq.h&gt;, which says:

 * @irq_shutdown:	shut down the interrupt (defaults to -&gt;disable if NULL)

This is also how __free_irq() behaved before the big overhaul, cfr. e.g.
3b56f0585fd4c02d047dc406668cb40159b2d340 ("genirq: Remove bogus conditional"),
where the core interrupt code always overrode .irq_shutdown() to
.irq_disable() if .irq_shutdown() was NULL.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315742394-16036-2-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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If an irq_chip provides .irq_shutdown(), but neither of .irq_disable() or
.irq_mask(), free_irq() crashes when jumping to NULL.
Fix this by only trying .irq_disable() and .irq_mask() if there's no
.irq_shutdown() provided.

This revives the symmetry with irq_startup(), which tries .irq_startup(),
.irq_enable(), and irq_unmask(), and makes it consistent with the comment for
irq_chip.irq_shutdown() in &lt;linux/irq.h&gt;, which says:

 * @irq_shutdown:	shut down the interrupt (defaults to -&gt;disable if NULL)

This is also how __free_irq() behaved before the big overhaul, cfr. e.g.
3b56f0585fd4c02d047dc406668cb40159b2d340 ("genirq: Remove bogus conditional"),
where the core interrupt code always overrode .irq_shutdown() to
.irq_disable() if .irq_shutdown() was NULL.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315742394-16036-2-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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