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    genirq: Provide synchronize_hardirq() · 18258f72
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    
    
    synchronize_irq() waits for hard irq and threaded handlers to complete
    before returning. For some special cases we only need to make sure
    that the hard interrupt part of the irq line is not in progress when
    we disabled the - possibly shared - interrupt at the device level.
    
    A proper use case for this was provided by Russell. The sdhci driver
    requires some irq triggered functions to be run in thread context. The
    current implementation of the thread context is a sdio private kthread
    construct, which has quite some shortcomings. These can be avoided
    when the thread is directly associated to the device interrupt via the
    generic threaded irq infrastructure.
    
    Though there is a corner case related to run time power management
    where one side disables the device interrupts at the device level and
    needs to make sure, that an already running hard interrupt handler has
    completed before proceeding further. Though that hard interrupt
    handler might wake the associated thread, which in turn can request
    the runtime PM to reenable the device. Using synchronize_irq() leads
    to an immediate deadlock of the irq thread waiting for the PM lock and
    the synchronize_irq() waiting for the irq thread to complete.
    
    Due to the fact that it is sufficient for this case to ensure that no
    hard irq handler is executing a new function which avoids the check
    for the thread is required.
    
    Add a function, which just monitors the hard irq parts and ignores the
    threaded handlers.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarRussell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Chris Ball <chris@printf.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140215003823.653236081@linutronix.de
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