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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-03-23 18:28:15 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-03-24 12:15:23 +0100
commit3aa551c9b4c40018f0e261a178e3d25478dc04a9 (patch)
tree2a696109273fcc421d774cc8fefa4180331a85ad /include/linux/irq.h
parent80c5520811d3805adcb15c570ea5e2d489fa5d0b (diff)
genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support
Add support for threaded interrupt handlers: A device driver can request that its main interrupt handler runs in a thread. To achive this the device driver requests the interrupt with request_threaded_irq() and provides additionally to the handler a thread function. The handler function is called in hard interrupt context and needs to check whether the interrupt originated from the device. If the interrupt originated from the device then the handler can either return IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. IRQ_HANDLED is returned when no further action is required. IRQ_WAKE_THREAD causes the genirq code to invoke the threaded (main) handler. When IRQ_WAKE_THREAD is returned handler must have disabled the interrupt on the device level. This is mandatory for shared interrupt handlers, but we need to do it as well for obscure x86 hardware where disabling an interrupt on the IO_APIC level redirects the interrupt to the legacy PIC interrupt lines. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/irq.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/irq.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h
index 873e4ac11b81..8b1cf0630210 100644
--- a/include/linux/irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/irqreturn.h>
#include <linux/irqnr.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
@@ -155,6 +156,8 @@ struct irq_2_iommu;
* @affinity: IRQ affinity on SMP
* @cpu: cpu index useful for balancing
* @pending_mask: pending rebalanced interrupts
+ * @threads_active: number of irqaction threads currently running
+ * @wait_for_threads: wait queue for sync_irq to wait for threaded handlers
* @dir: /proc/irq/ procfs entry
* @name: flow handler name for /proc/interrupts output
*/
@@ -186,6 +189,8 @@ struct irq_desc {
cpumask_var_t pending_mask;
#endif
#endif
+ atomic_t threads_active;
+ wait_queue_head_t wait_for_threads;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
struct proc_dir_entry *dir;
#endif