[PATCH] IRQ type flags

Some ARM platforms have the ability to program the interrupt controller to
detect various interrupt edges and/or levels.  For some platforms, this is
critical to setup correctly, particularly those which the setting is dependent
on the device.

Currently, ARM drivers do (eg) the following:

	err = request_irq(irq, ...);

	set_irq_type(irq, IRQT_RISING);

However, if the interrupt has previously been programmed to be level sensitive
(for whatever reason) then this will cause an interrupt storm.

Hence, if we combine set_irq_type() with request_irq(), we can then safely set
the type prior to unmasking the interrupt.  The unfortunate problem is that in
order to support this, these flags need to be visible outside of the ARM
architecture - drivers such as smc91x need these flags and they're
cross-architecture.

Finally, the SA_TRIGGER_* flag passed to request_irq() should reflect the
property that the device would like.  The IRQ controller code should do its
best to select the most appropriate supported mode.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index 5dd5f02c5c5..ea9eff16c4b 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@
 #define SA_PROBE                SA_ONESHOT
 #define SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM        SA_RESTART
 #define SA_SHIRQ                0x04000000
+/*
+ * As above, these correspond to the IORESOURCE_IRQ_* defines in
+ * linux/ioport.h to select the interrupt line behaviour.  When
+ * requesting an interrupt without specifying a SA_TRIGGER, the
+ * setting should be assumed to be "as already configured", which
+ * may be as per machine or firmware initialisation.
+ */
+#define SA_TRIGGER_LOW          0x00000008
+#define SA_TRIGGER_HIGH         0x00000004
+#define SA_TRIGGER_FALLING      0x00000002
+#define SA_TRIGGER_RISING       0x00000001
+#define SA_TRIGGER_MASK (SA_TRIGGER_HIGH|SA_TRIGGER_LOW|\
+                                 SA_TRIGGER_RISING|SA_TRIGGER_FALLING)
 
 /*
  * Real Time signals may be queued.