zephyr/include/drivers/interrupt_controller
Stephanos Ioannidis 50519ce7ba interrupt_controller: gic: Refactor GIC driver interface
The current Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC) driver makes use of the
multi-level interrupt mechanism and `irq_nextlevel` public interface.

This is a less-than-ideal implementation for the following reasons:

1. The GIC is often used as the main interrupt controller for the
  Cortex-A and Cortex-R family SoCs and, in this case, it is not a 2nd
  level interrupt controller; in fact, it is the root interrupt
  controller and therefore should be treated as such.

2. The only reason for using `irq_nextlevel` here is to interface the
  architecture implementation to the interrupt controller functions.
  Since there is no nesting or multiple instances of an interrupt
  controller involved, there is really no point in adding such an
  abstraction.

3. 2nd level topology adds many unnecessary abstractions and results
  in strange coding artefacts as well as performance penalty due to
  additional branching.

This commit refactors the GIC driver interface as follows:

1. Remove the current GIC driver interface based on the multi-level
  interrupt mechanism and the `irq_nextlevel` public interface.

2. Define the GIC driver interface in
  `include/drivers/interrupt_controller/gic.h` and allow the arch
  implementation to directly invoke this interface.

Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
2020-03-13 09:59:59 +01:00
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exti_stm32.h
gic.h
ioapic.h
loapic.h
sam0_eic.h
sysapic.h