linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 1/3] genirq: Add oneshot support

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908152150370.1283@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:00:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>,
	m.szyprowski@...sung.com, t.fujak@...sung.com,
	kyungmin.park@...sung.com, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Daniel Ribeiro <drwyrm@...il.com>, arve@...roid.com,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 1/3] genirq: Add oneshot support

Dmitry,

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 05:48:33PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >  
> >  /**
> > + *	irq_oneshot_primary_handler - Handle oneshot interrupt primary handler
> > + *	@irq:		the interrupt number
> > + *	@dev_id:	cookie to identify the device
> > + *
> > + *	For oneshot interrupts which keep the interrupt line masked
> > + *	until the threaded handler has been executed, the only
> > + *	functionality of the primary handler is to return
> > + *	IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. This is the generic implementation which
> > + *	avoids lots of duplicates all over the place
> > + */
> > +irqreturn_t irq_oneshot_primary_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
> > +{
> > +	return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_oneshot_primary_handler);
> 
> This kind of handler is useful not only for users of oneshot interrupts
> but also other drivers using threaded IRQs. So maybe we should rename it
> to default_threaded_irq_handler() and instead of exporting it simply
> have it installed automatically when driver requests NULL in place of
> IRQ handler in request_threaded_irq()?

Good point. If handler == NULL and thread_fn != NULL. That's
reasonable. Will rework.
 
> Also, if IRQF_ONESHOT definition would make into mainline sooner than
> later that would be great - then I'd be able to put all the drivers that
> will end up using it into my next branch and not be concerned of
> breaking linux-next.

Hmm, the ONESHOT definition alone won't give you the testing you
want. If all involved folks agree on the patch series I can commit it
into a standalone branch which can be pulled into the development
branches of interested driver maintainers. Git will deal with that
just fine.

@Andrew: any opinion on that ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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