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Commit 18258f72 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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genirq: Provide synchronize_hardirq()

synchronize_irq() waits for hard irq and threaded handlers to complete
before returning. For some special cases we only need to make sure
that the hard interrupt part of the irq line is not in progress when
we disabled the - possibly shared - interrupt at the device level.

A proper use case for this was provided by Russell. The sdhci driver
requires some irq triggered functions to be run in thread context. The
current implementation of the thread context is a sdio private kthread
construct, which has quite some shortcomings. These can be avoided
when the thread is directly associated to the device interrupt via the
generic threaded irq infrastructure.

Though there is a corner case related to run time power management
where one side disables the device interrupts at the device level and
needs to make sure, that an already running hard interrupt handler has
completed before proceeding further. Though that hard interrupt
handler might wake the associated thread, which ...
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