PCI: pciehp: Convert to threaded IRQ
pciehp's IRQ handler queues up a work item for each event signaled by the hardware. A more modern alternative is to let a long running kthread service the events. The IRQ handler's sole job is then to check whether the IRQ originated from the device in question, acknowledge its receipt to the hardware to quiesce the interrupt and wake up the kthread. One benefit is reduced latency to handle the IRQ, which is a necessity for realtime environments. Another benefit is that we can make pciehp simpler and more robust by handling events synchronously in process context, rather than asynchronously by queueing up work items. pciehp's usage of work items is a historic artifact, it predates the introduction of threaded IRQ handlers by two years. (The former was introduced in 2007 with commit 5d386e1a ("pciehp: Event handling rework"), the latter in 2009 with commit 3aa551c9 ("genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support").) Convert pciehp to threaded IRQ handling by retrieving the pending events in pciehp_isr(), saving them for later consumption by the thread handler pciehp_ist() and clearing them in the Slot Status register. By clearing the Slot Status (and thereby acknowledging the events) in pciehp_isr(), we can avoid requesting the IRQ with IRQF_ONESHOT, which would have the unpleasant side effect of starving devices sharing the IRQ until pciehp_ist() has finished. pciehp_isr() does not count how many times each event occurred, but merely records the fact *that* an event occurred. If the same event occurs a second time before pciehp_ist() is woken, that second event will not be recorded separately, which is problematic according to commit fad214b0 ("PCI: pciehp: Process all hotplug events before looking for new ones") because we may miss removal of a card in-between two back-to-back insertions. We're about to make pciehp_ist() resilient to missed events. The present commit regresses the driver's behavior temporarily in order to separate the changes into reviewable chunks. This doesn't affect regular slow-motion hotplug, only plug-unplug-plug operations that happen in a timespan shorter than wakeup of the IRQ thread. Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mayurkumar Patel <mayurkumar.patel@intel.com> Cc: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
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