Revision da6b7366dbfc93f59873e252b8d53f17fb47a802 authored by Linus Torvalds on 20 February 2016, 17:19:56 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 20 February 2016, 17:19:56 UTC
Pull dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul: "A few fixes for drivers, nothing major here. Fixes are: iotdma fix to restart channels, new ID for wildcat PCH, residue fix for edma, disable irq for non-cyclic in dw" * tag 'dmaengine-fix-4.5-rc5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma: dmaengine: dw: disable BLOCK IRQs for non-cyclic xfer dmaengine: edma: fix residue race for cyclic dmaengine: dw: pci: add ID for WildcatPoint PCH dmaengine: IOATDMA: fix timer code that continues to restart channels during idle
IRQ.txt
What is an IRQ?
An IRQ is an interrupt request from a device.
Currently they can come in over a pin, or over a packet.
Several devices may be connected to the same pin thus
sharing an IRQ.
An IRQ number is a kernel identifier used to talk about a hardware
interrupt source. Typically this is an index into the global irq_desc
array, but except for what linux/interrupt.h implements the details
are architecture specific.
An IRQ number is an enumeration of the possible interrupt sources on a
machine. Typically what is enumerated is the number of input pins on
all of the interrupt controller in the system. In the case of ISA
what is enumerated are the 16 input pins on the two i8259 interrupt
controllers.
Architectures can assign additional meaning to the IRQ numbers, and
are encouraged to in the case where there is any manual configuration
of the hardware involved. The ISA IRQs are a classic example of
assigning this kind of additional meaning.
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