[PATCH v2 1/3] genirq: Allow the irqchip state of an IRQ to be save/restored

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

With the addition of actually assigning err to something useful in the
setter below:

Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at sonymobile.com>
Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at sonymobile.com>

> diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c

[..]

> +/**
> + *     irq_set_irqchip_state - set the state of a forwarded interrupt.
> + *     @irq: Interrupt line that is forwarded to a VM
> + *     @which: State to be restored (one of IRQCHIP_STATE_*)
> + *     @val: Value corresponding to @which
> + *
> + *     This call sets the internal irqchip state of an interrupt,
> + *     depending on the value of @which.
> + *
> + *     This function should be called with preemption disabled if the
> + *     interrupt controller has per-cpu registers.
> + */
> +int irq_set_irqchip_state(unsigned int irq, enum irqchip_irq_state which,
> +                         bool val)
> +{
> +       struct irq_desc *desc;
> +       struct irq_data *data;
> +       struct irq_chip *chip;
> +       unsigned long flags;
> +       int err = -EINVAL;
> +
> +       desc = irq_get_desc_buslock(irq, &flags, 0);
> +       if (!desc)
> +               return err;
> +
> +       data = irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc);
> +
> +       do {
> +               chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data);
> +               if (chip->irq_set_irqchip_state)
> +                       break;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> +               data = data->parent_data;
> +#else
> +               data = NULL;
> +#endif
> +       } while (data);
> +
> +       if (data)
> +               chip->irq_set_irqchip_state(data, which, val);

err =

> +
> +       irq_put_desc_busunlock(desc, flags);
> +       return err;
> +}

Regards,
Bjorn