Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/apic updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is a major overhaul to the x86 apic subsystem consisting of the
following parts:
- Remove obsolete APIC driver abstractions (David Rientjes)
- Use the irqdomain facilities to dynamically allocate IRQs for
IOAPICs. This is a prerequisite to enable IOAPIC hotplug support,
and it also frees up wasted vectors (Jiang Liu)
- Misc fixlets.
Despite the hickup in Ingos previous pull request - caused by the
missing fixup for the suspend/resume issue reported by Borislav - I
strongly recommend that this update finds its way into 3.17. Some
history for you:
This is preparatory work for physical IOAPIC hotplug. The first
attempt to support this was done by Yinghai and I shot it down because
it just added another layer of obscurity and complexity to the already
existing mess without tackling the underlying shortcomings of the
current implementation.
After quite some on- and offlist discussions, I requested that the
design of this functionality must use generic infrastructure, i.e.
irq domains, which provide all the mechanisms to dynamically map linux
interrupt numbers to physical interrupts.
Jiang picked up the idea and did a great job of consolidating the
existing interfaces to manage the x86 (IOAPIC) interrupt system by
utilizing irq domains.
The testing in tip, Linux-next and inside of Intel on various machines
did not unearth any oddities until Borislav exposed it to one of his
oddball machines. The issue was resolved quickly, but unfortunately
the fix fell through the cracks and did not hit the tip tree before
Ingo sent the pull request. Not entirely Ingos fault, I also assumed
that the fix was already merged when Ingo asked me whether he could
send it.
Nevertheless this work has a proper design, has undergone several
rounds of review and the final fallout after applying it to tip and
integrating it into Linux-next has been more than moderate. It's the
ground work not only for IOAPIC hotplug, it will also allow us to move
the lowlevel vector allocation into the irqdomain hierarchy, which
will benefit other architectures as well. Patches are posted already,
but they are on hold for two weeks, see below.
I really appreciate the competence and responsiveness Jiang has shown
in course of this endavour. So I'm sure that any fallout of this will
be addressed in a timely manner.
FYI, I'm vanishing for 2 weeks into my annual kids summer camp kitchen
duty^Wvacation, while you folks are drooling at KS/LinuxCon :) But HPA
will have a look at the hopefully zero fallout until I'm back"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
x86, irq, PCI: Keep IRQ assignment for PCI devices during suspend/hibernation
x86/apic/vsmp: Make is_vsmp_box() static
x86, apic: Remove enable_apic_mode callback
x86, apic: Remove setup_portio_remap callback
x86, apic: Remove multi_timer_check callback
x86, apic: Replace noop_check_apicid_used
x86, apic: Remove check_apicid_present callback
x86, apic: Remove mps_oem_check callback
x86, apic: Remove smp_callin_clear_local_apic callback
x86, apic: Replace trampoline physical addresses with defaults
x86, apic: Remove x86_32_numa_cpu_node callback
x86: intel-mid: Use the new io_apic interfaces
x86, vsmp: Remove is_vsmp_box() from apic_is_clustered_box()
x86, irq: Clean up irqdomain transition code
x86, irq, devicetree: Release IOAPIC pin when PCI device is disabled
x86, irq, SFI: Release IOAPIC pin when PCI device is disabled
x86, irq, mpparse: Release IOAPIC pin when PCI device is disabled
x86, irq, ACPI: Release IOAPIC pin when PCI device is disabled
x86, irq: Introduce helper functions to release IOAPIC pin
x86, irq: Simplify the way to handle ISA IRQ
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