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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