Re: [PATCH v1] gpio: dwapb: mask/unmask IRQ when disable/enable it

[luojiaxing <luojiaxing@huawei.com>]

On 2020/12/7 2:50, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-12-06 15:02, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:15 PM Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, that sounds like a problem, but the explanation is a bit unclear
>>> to me. AFAICS you are saying that the only callbacks which are
>>> called during the IRQ request/release are the irq_enable(), right? If
>>> so then the only reason why we haven't got a problem reported due to
>>> that so far is that the IRQs actually unmasked by default.
>>
>> What we usually do in cases like that (and I have discussed this
>> with tglx in the past I think) is to simply mask off all IRQs in 
>> probe().
>> Then they will be unmasked when requested by drivers.
>>
>> See e.g. gpio-pl061 that has this line in probe():
>> writeb(0, pl061->base + GPIOIE); /* disable irqs */
>
> This should definitely be the default behaviour. The code code
> expects all interrupt sources to be masked until actively enabled,
> usually with the IRQ being requested.


I think this patch is used for that purpose. I do two things in 
irq_enable(): unmask irq and then enable IRQ;

and for irq_disable(), it's similar; mask IRQ then disable it.


Thanks

Jiaxing


>
> Thanks,
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>         M.