genirq/msi: Allow level-triggered MSIs to be exposed by MSI providers

So far, MSIs have been used to signal edge-triggered interrupts, as
a write is a good model for an edge (you can't "unwrite" something).
On the other hand, routing zillions of wires in an SoC because you
need level interrupts is a bit extreme.

People have come up with a variety of schemes to support this, which
involves sending two messages: one to signal the interrupt, and one
to clear it. Since the kernel cannot represent this, we've ended up
with side-band mechanisms that are pretty awful.

Instead, let's acknoledge the requirement, and ensure that, under the
right circumstances, the irq_compose_msg and irq_write_msg can take
as a parameter an array of two messages instead of a pointer to a
single one. We also add some checking that the compose method only
clobbers the second message if the MSI domain has been created with
the MSI_FLAG_LEVEL_CAPABLE flags.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180508121438.11301-2-marc.zyngier@arm.com

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/msi.h b/include/linux/msi.h
index 1f1bbb5b4679..5839d8062dfc 100644
--- a/include/linux/msi.h
+++ b/include/linux/msi.h
@@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ enum {
 	 * MSI_FLAG_ACTIVATE_EARLY has been set.
 	 */
 	MSI_FLAG_MUST_REACTIVATE	= (1 << 5),
+	/* Is level-triggered capable, using two messages */
+	MSI_FLAG_LEVEL_CAPABLE		= (1 << 6),
 };
 
 int msi_domain_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask,