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Author SHA1 Message Date
Grant Likely bae1d8f199 irq_domain/powerpc: Use common irq_domain structure instead of irq_host
This patch drops the powerpc-specific irq_host structures and uses the common
irq_domain strucutres defined in linux/irqdomain.h.  It also fixes all
the users to use the new structure names.

Renaming irq_host to irq_domain has been discussed for a long time, and this
patch is a step in the process of generalizing the powerpc virq code to be
usable by all architecture.

An astute reader will notice that this patch actually removes the irq_host
structure instead of renaming it.  This is because the irq_domain structure
already exists in include/linux/irqdomain.h and has the needed data members.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2012-02-14 14:06:50 -07:00
Ashish Kalra 3a93261f70 powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor vmpic driver
The Freescale ePAPR reference hypervisor provides interrupt controller
services via a hypercall interface, instead of emulating the MPIC
controller.  This is called the VMPIC.

The ePAPR "virtual interrupt controller" provides interrupt controller
services for external interrupts.  External interrupts received by a
partition can come from two sources:

  - Hardware interrupts - hardware interrupts come from external
    interrupt lines or on-chip I/O devices.
  - Virtual interrupts - virtual interrupts are generated by the hypervisor
    as part of some hypervisor service or hypervisor-created virtual device.

Both types of interrupts are processed using the same programming model and
same set of hypercalls.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-06-27 08:30:26 -05:00