From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932309AbaGYJ1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:27:32 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:55520 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbaGYJ1a (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:27:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:27:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov , Linux PM list , Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq: Rework IRQF_NO_SUSPENDED In-Reply-To: <13290270.IfKaUSRMLR@vostro.rjw.lan> Message-ID: References: <20140724212620.GO3935@laptop> <13290270.IfKaUSRMLR@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:26:20 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Subject: irq: Rework IRQF_NO_SUSPENDED > > From: Peter Zijlstra > > Date: Thu Jul 24 22:34:50 CEST 2014 > > > > Typically when devices are suspended they're quiesced such that they > > will not generate any further interrupts. > > > > However some devices should still generate interrupts, even when > > suspended, typically used to wake the machine back up. > > > > Such logic should ideally be contained inside each driver, if it can > > generate interrupts when suspended, it knows about this and the > > interrupt handler can deal with it. > > > > Except of course for shared interrupts, when such a wakeup device is > > sharing an interrupt line with a device that does not expect > > interrupts while suspended things can go funny. > > > > This is where IRQF_NO_SUSPEND comes in, the idea is that drivers that > > have the capability to wake the machine set IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and their > > handler will still be called, even when the IRQ subsystem is formally > > suspended. Handlers without IRQF_NO_SUSPEND will not be called. > > > > This replaced the prior implementation of IRQF_NO_SUSPEND which had > > a number of fatal issues in that it didn't actually work for the > > shared case, exactly the case it should be helping. > > > > There is still enable_irq_wake()/IRQD_WAKEUP_STATE that tries to serve > > a similar purpose but is equially wrecked for shared interrupts, > > ideally this would be removed. > > Let me comment about this particular thing. > > I had a discussion with Dmitry about that and his argument was that > enable_irq_wake() should imply IRQF_NO_SUSPEND, because drivers that > set up interrupts for system wakeup should expect those interrupts to > trigger at any time, including system suspend. Hence the patch that > added the IRQD_WAKEUP_STATE check to __disable_irq(). > > However, in the face of the problem that is being addressed here I'm > not really sure that this argument is valid, because if the driver > calling enable_irq_wake() is sharing the IRQ with another one, the > other driver may not actually know that the IRQ will be a wakeup one > and still may not expect interrupts to come to it during system > suspend/resume. > > Yes, drivers using enable_irq_wake() will likely want IRQF_NO_SUSPEND to > be set for their irqactions, but that should not imply "no suspend" for > all irqactions sharing the same desc. So I guess it may be better to go > forth and use a global "interrupts suspended" state variable instead of the > IRQS_SUSPENDED flag for each desc and throw away the IRQD_WAKEUP_STATE > check from suspend_device_irqs() entirely. How should that global state work? Thanks, tglx