[PATCH 6/6] ARM: gic: use handle_fasteoi_irq for SPIs

[santosh.shilimkar@ti.com (Santosh Shilimkar)]

On 4/13/2011 12:05 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Currently, the gic uses handle_level_irq for handling SPIs (Shared
> Peripheral Interrupts), requiring active interrupts to be masked at
> the distributor level during IRQ handling.
>
> On a virtualised system, only the CPU interfaces are virtualised in
> hardware. Accesses to the distributor must be trapped by the
> hypervisor, adding latency to the critical interrupt path in Linux.
>
> This patch modifies the GIC code to use handle_fasteoi_irq for handling
> interrupts, which only requires us to signal EOI to the CPU interface
> when handling is complete. Cascaded IRQ handling is also updated to use
> the chained IRQ enter/exit functions to honour the flow control of the
> parent chip.
>
> Note that commit 846afbd1 ("GIC: Dont disable INT in ack callback")
> broke cascading interrupts by forgetting to add IRQ masking. This is
> no longer an issue because the unmask call is now unnecessary.
>
> Tested on Versatile Express and Realview EB (1176 w/ cascaded GICs).
>
> Cc: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar<adharmap@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux<linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas<catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon<will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
Tested with OMAP4.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>