genirq: Introduce request_any_context_irq()

Now that we enjoy threaded interrupts, we're starting to see irq_chip
implementations (wm831x, pca953x) that make use of threaded interrupts
for the controller, and nested interrupts for the client interrupt. It
all works very well, with one drawback:

Drivers requesting an IRQ must now know whether the handler will
run in a thread context or not, and call request_threaded_irq() or
request_irq() accordingly.

The problem is that the requesting driver sometimes doesn't know
about the nature of the interrupt, specially when the interrupt
controller is a discrete chip (typically a GPIO expander connected
over I2C) that can be connected to a wide variety of otherwise perfectly
supported hardware.

This patch introduces the request_any_context_irq() function that mostly
mimics the usual request_irq(), except that it checks whether the irq
level is configured as nested or not, and calls the right backend.
On success, it also returns either IRQC_IS_HARDIRQ or IRQC_IS_NESTED.

[ tglx: Made return value an enum, simplified code and made the export
  	of request_any_context_irq GPL ]

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Cc: <joachim.eastwood@jotron.com>
LKML-Reference: <927ea285bd0c68934ddae1a47e44a9ba@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 704e488730a..84f32278ff1 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -1120,3 +1120,40 @@ int request_threaded_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
 	return retval;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(request_threaded_irq);
+
+/**
+ *	request_any_context_irq - allocate an interrupt line
+ *	@irq: Interrupt line to allocate
+ *	@handler: Function to be called when the IRQ occurs.
+ *		  Threaded handler for threaded interrupts.
+ *	@flags: Interrupt type flags
+ *	@name: An ascii name for the claiming device
+ *	@dev_id: A cookie passed back to the handler function
+ *
+ *	This call allocates interrupt resources and enables the
+ *	interrupt line and IRQ handling. It selects either a
+ *	hardirq or threaded handling method depending on the
+ *	context.
+ *
+ *	On failure, it returns a negative value. On success,
+ *	it returns either IRQC_IS_HARDIRQ or IRQC_IS_NESTED.
+ */
+int request_any_context_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
+			    unsigned long flags, const char *name, void *dev_id)
+{
+	struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!desc)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (desc->status & IRQ_NESTED_THREAD) {
+		ret = request_threaded_irq(irq, NULL, handler,
+					   flags, name, dev_id);
+		return !ret ? IRQC_IS_NESTED : ret;
+	}
+
+	ret = request_irq(irq, handler, flags, name, dev_id);
+	return !ret ? IRQC_IS_HARDIRQ : ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(request_any_context_irq);