Re: [PATCH] genirq: Respect IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE in irq_chip_set_wake_parent()

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

Stephen,

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Gleixner (2019-03-21 02:26:26)
> > 
> > set_irq_wake_real() returns 0 when the topmost chip has SKIP_SET_WAKE set.
> 
> Just to confirm, the topmost chip would be chip B or chip C below?

Yes. A is the parent of B, resp. the grandparent of C

> > 
> > So let's assume we have the following chains:
> > 
> >   chip A -> chip B 
> > 
> >   chip A -> chip B -> chip C
> > 
> > chip A has SKIP_SET_WAKE not set
> > chip B has SKIP_SET_WAKE set
> > chip C has SKIP_SET_WAKE not set and invokes irq_chip_set_wake_parent()
> > 
> > Now assume we have interrupt X connected to chip B and interrupt Y
> > connected to chip C.
> > 
> > If irq_set_wake() is called for interrupt X, then the function returns
> > without trying to invoke the set_wake() callback of chip A.
> 
> It's not clear to me that having SKIP_SET_WAKE set means "completely
> ignore set wake for irqs from this domain" vs. "skip setting wake here
> because the .irq_set_wake() is intentionally omitted for this chip".

That's a really good question, but I'd say that if one part of the
hierarchy does not require set wake, then this means no further action
required.

> Reading Santosh's reasoning in commit 60f96b41f71d ("genirq: Add
> IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE flag") just further confuses me because it sounds
> like the latter.

That preceeds hierarchical irq domains. So back then a hierarchy was
expressed by weird callbacks, hardcoded dependencies, etc. That means if
the top level chip had SKIP_SET_WAKE set, the whole hierarchy was excluded.

> > If irq_set_wake() is called for interrupt Y, irq_chip_set_wake_parent() is
> > invoked from chip C which then skips chip B, but tries to invoke the
> > callback on chip A.
> > 
> > That's inconsistent and changes the existing behaviour. So IMO, the right
> > thing to do is to return 0 from irq_chip_set_wake_parent() when the parent
> > has SKIP_SET_WAKE set and not to try to follow the whole chain. That should
> > fix your problem nicely w/o changing behaviour.
> 
> Ok. I understand that with hierarchical chips you want it to be explicit
> in the code that a parent chip needs to be called or not. This works for

I think so.

> me, and it's actually how I had originally solved this problem. Will you
> merge your patch or do you want me to resend it with some updated commit
> text?

Please send a new version.

Thanks,

	tglx