ARM: 6532/1: Allow machine to specify it's own IRQ handlers at run-time

Normally different ARM platform has different way to decode the IRQ
hardware status and demultiplex to the corresponding IRQ handler.
This is highly optimized by macro irq_handler in entry-armv.S, and
each machine defines their own macro to decode the IRQ number.
However, this prevents multiple machine classes to be built into a
single kernel.

By allowing each machine to specify thier own handler, and making
function pointer 'handle_arch_irq' to point to it at run time, this
can be solved. And introduce CONFIG_MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER to allow both
solutions to work.

Comparing with the highly optimized macro of irq_handler, the new
function must be written with care not to lose too much performance.
And the IPI stuff on SMP is expected to move to the provided arch
IRQ handler as well.

The assembly code to invoke handle_arch_irq is optimized by Russell
King.

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h
index d97a964207fa..7d55356110d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ struct machine_desc {
         void                    (*init_irq)(void);
         struct sys_timer        *timer;         /* system tick timer    */
         void                    (*init_machine)(void);
+#ifdef CONFIG_MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER
+        void                    (*handle_irq)(struct pt_regs *);
+#endif
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/irq.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/irq.h
index ce3eee9fe26c..6ecdad9a5c42 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/irq.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mach/irq.h
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ extern void (*init_arch_irq)(void);
 extern void init_FIQ(void);
 extern int show_fiq_list(struct seq_file *, void *);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER
+extern void (*handle_arch_irq)(struct pt_regs *);
+#endif
+
 /*
  * This is for easy migration, but should be changed in the source
  */