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Linus Torvalds 5c2b050848 A set of updates for the interrupt subsystem:
- Tree wide:
 
     * Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
       to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
       variables or function arguments of the same name.
 
   - Core code:
 
     * Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not managed
       by devres in the first place.
 
     * Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
       /proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
       avoids parsing the format strings over and over.
 
     * Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
       'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which checks
       whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a pointless
       exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the context of the
       timer interrupt and therefore never wake up ksoftirqd.
 
     * Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated thread
       on RT.
 
       Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
       on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
       soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.
 
       The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
       scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.
 
   - Drivers:
 
     * New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
       RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
       chips
 
     * Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.
 
       MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU cluster
       has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This requires to
       access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect register block.
 
       This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
       complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC details.
 
     * Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver
 
       The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
       must be decrypted.
 
     * Small cleanups and fixes all over the place
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Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Tree wide:

   - Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
     to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
     variables or function arguments of the same name.

  Core code:

   - Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
     managed by devres in the first place.

   - Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
     /proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
     avoids parsing the format strings over and over.

   - Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
     'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
     checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
     pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
     context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
     ksoftirqd.

   - Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
     thread on RT.

     Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
     on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
     soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.

     The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
     scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.

  Drivers:

   - New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
     RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
     chips

   - Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.

     MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
     cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
     requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
     register block.

     This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
     complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
     details.

   - Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver

     The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
     must be decrypted.

   - Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
  genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
  softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
  timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
  hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
  riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
  irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
  irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
  irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
  irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
  irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
  irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
  irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
  genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
  genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
  irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
  ...
2024-11-19 15:54:19 -08:00
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