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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-07-26 03:19:06 -0600
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-07-28 01:32:04 -0600
commit08a543ad33fc188650801bd36eed4ffe272643e1 (patch)
treecf2b41b922e77190425f999c2268f1558dd52d18 /kernel/irq/Kconfig
parent5fd1a2ed0ec6fb5449c71a988cc15edb8671b3d0 (diff)
downloadlinux-08a543ad33fc188650801bd36eed4ffe272643e1.tar.gz
irq: add irq_domain translation infrastructure
This patch adds irq_domain infrastructure for translating from
hardware irq numbers to linux irqs.  This is particularly important
for architectures adding device tree support because the current
implementation (excluding PowerPC and SPARC) cannot handle
translation for more than a single interrupt controller.  irq_domain
supports device tree translation for any number of interrupt
controllers.

This patch converts x86, Microblaze, ARM and MIPS to use irq_domain
for device tree irq translation.  x86 is untested beyond compiling it,
irq_domain is enabled for MIPS and Microblaze, but the old behaviour is
preserved until the core code is modified to actually register an
irq_domain yet.  On ARM it works and is required for much of the new
ARM device tree board support.

PowerPC has /not/ been converted to use this new infrastructure.  It
is still missing some features before it can replace the virq
infrastructure already in powerpc (see documentation on
irq_domain_map/unmap for details).  Followup patches will add the
missing pieces and migrate PowerPC to use irq_domain.

SPARC has its own method of managing interrupts from the device tree
and is unaffected by this change.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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diff --git a/kernel/irq/Kconfig b/kernel/irq/Kconfig
index d1d051b38e0b..5a38bf4de641 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/irq/Kconfig
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ config IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER
 config GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
        bool
 
+# Generic irq_domain hw <--> linux irq number translation
+config IRQ_DOMAIN
+	bool
+
 # Support forced irq threading
 config IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
        bool