genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support

Add support for threaded interrupt handlers:

A device driver can request that its main interrupt handler runs in a
thread. To achive this the device driver requests the interrupt with
request_threaded_irq() and provides additionally to the handler a
thread function. The handler function is called in hard interrupt
context and needs to check whether the interrupt originated from the
device. If the interrupt originated from the device then the handler
can either return IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. IRQ_HANDLED is
returned when no further action is required. IRQ_WAKE_THREAD causes
the genirq code to invoke the threaded (main) handler. When
IRQ_WAKE_THREAD is returned handler must have disabled the interrupt
on the device level. This is mandatory for shared interrupt handlers,
but we need to do it as well for obscure x86 hardware where disabling
an interrupt on the IO_APIC level redirects the interrupt to the
legacy PIC interrupt lines.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c
index 9ebf77968871..fe8f45374e86 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/handle.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c
@@ -357,8 +357,37 @@ irqreturn_t handle_IRQ_event(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)
 
         do {
                 ret = action->handler(irq, action->dev_id);
-                if (ret == IRQ_HANDLED)
+
+                switch (ret) {
+                case IRQ_WAKE_THREAD:
+                        /*
+                         * Wake up the handler thread for this
+                         * action. In case the thread crashed and was
+                         * killed we just pretend that we handled the
+                         * interrupt. The hardirq handler above has
+                         * disabled the device interrupt, so no irq
+                         * storm is lurking.
+                         */
+                        if (likely(!test_bit(IRQTF_DIED,
+                                             &action->thread_flags))) {
+                                set_bit(IRQTF_RUNTHREAD, &action->thread_flags);
+                                wake_up_process(action->thread);
+                        }
+
+                        /*
+                         * Set it to handled so the spurious check
+                         * does not trigger.
+                         */
+                        ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
+                        /* Fall through to add to randomness */
+                case IRQ_HANDLED:
                         status |= action->flags;
+                        break;
+
+                default:
+                        break;
+                }
+
                 retval |= ret;
                 action = action->next;
         } while (action);