[PATCH] genirq: rename desc->handler to desc->chip

This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
functionality.

While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
the new 'irq chip' abstraction.

The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
(level/edge/etc.) type of details.

This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.

As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
(master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.

The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
and more consolidation between architectures.

We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.

This patch:

rename desc->handler to desc->chip.

Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch.  But having
both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
truly is.

I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
frequently.

So lets get over with this quickly.  The conversion was done automatically
via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.

This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/i8259.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/i8259.c
index b7ac32fdd776..2bff30f6d635 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/i8259.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/i8259.c
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ void __init i8259_init(unsigned long intack_addr, int offset)
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8259_lock, flags);
 
         for (i = 0; i < NUM_ISA_INTERRUPTS; ++i)
-                irq_desc[offset + i].handler = &i8259_pic;
+                irq_desc[offset + i].chip = &i8259_pic;
 
         /* reserve our resources */
         setup_irq(offset + 2, &i8259_irqaction);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c
index 8f01e0f1d847..46801f5ec03f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ void __init ipic_init(phys_addr_t phys_addr,
         ipic_write(primary_ipic->regs, IPIC_SEMSR, temp);
 
         for (i = 0 ; i < NR_IPIC_INTS ; i++) {
-                irq_desc[i+irq_offset].handler = &ipic;
+                irq_desc[i+irq_offset].chip = &ipic;
                 irq_desc[i+irq_offset].status = IRQ_LEVEL;
         }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
index bffe50d02c99..f4613ee6b7a2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
@@ -379,14 +379,14 @@ static inline u32 mpic_physmask(u32 cpumask)
 /* Get the mpic structure from the IPI number */
 static inline struct mpic * mpic_from_ipi(unsigned int ipi)
 {
-        return container_of(irq_desc[ipi].handler, struct mpic, hc_ipi);
+        return container_of(irq_desc[ipi].chip, struct mpic, hc_ipi);
 }
 #endif
 
 /* Get the mpic structure from the irq number */
 static inline struct mpic * mpic_from_irq(unsigned int irq)
 {
-        return container_of(irq_desc[irq].handler, struct mpic, hc_irq);
+        return container_of(irq_desc[irq].chip, struct mpic, hc_irq);
 }
 
 /* Send an EOI */
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ void __init mpic_init(struct mpic *mpic)
                 if (!(mpic->flags & MPIC_PRIMARY))
                         continue;
                 irq_desc[mpic->ipi_offset+i].status |= IRQ_PER_CPU;
-                irq_desc[mpic->ipi_offset+i].handler = &mpic->hc_ipi;
+                irq_desc[mpic->ipi_offset+i].chip = &mpic->hc_ipi;
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
         }
 
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ void __init mpic_init(struct mpic *mpic)
                 /* init linux descriptors */
                 if (i < mpic->irq_count) {
                         irq_desc[mpic->irq_offset+i].status = level ? IRQ_LEVEL : 0;
-                        irq_desc[mpic->irq_offset+i].handler = &mpic->hc_irq;
+                        irq_desc[mpic->irq_offset+i].chip = &mpic->hc_irq;
                 }
         }