RE: [PATCH v8 1/2] irqchip: imx-gpcv2: IMX GPCv2 driver for wakeup sources

From: Shenwei Wang
Date: Mon Aug 24 2015 - 14:25:17 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > +static int gpcv2_wakeup_source_save(void) {
> > > > + struct gpcv2_irqchip_data *cd;
> > > > + void __iomem *reg;
> > > > + int i;
> > > > +
> > > > + cd = imx_gpcv2_instance;
> > > > + if (!cd)
> > > > + return 0;
> > > > +
> > > > + for (i = 0; i < IMR_NUM; i++) {
> > > > + reg = cd->gpc_base + cd->cpu2wakeup + i * 4;
> > > > + cd->enabled_irqs[i] = readl_relaxed(reg);
> > >
> > > You read the full state of the register and restore the full state.
> > > So why enabled_irqs?
> >
> > There are two user scenarios:
> > In CPU Idle state, the system need to be woke up by any enabled irqs,
> > not just the ones that marked as wakeup sources.
> > In Suspend State, they system will only be woke up by the one that
> > marked as a wakeup source. Enabled_irqs are used to save the values
> > before suspend, and restore them after resume.
>
> That's what you want achieve. Still you save the full content of the registers and
> restore the full content. That saves/restores the enabled and disabled interrupts.
> So enabled_irqs is a misnomer as you save the full state.

How about change its name to "saved_irq_mask"?

> > > set_wake() or leave it when they want to have resume functionality?
> > >
> > Each time system goes into the suspend state, it will call set_wake
> > (ON) again to configure the wakeup sources. Clearing wakeup_sources
> > here can make sure the system work as expected no matter that a driver
> > calls set_wake (OFF) during resume stage.
>
> We rather make sure that the drivers call set_wake(OFF) as they are supposed to,
> because if they do not then the set_wake(ON) logic in the core code will see the
> counter != 0 and not invoke the irq callback.

Sounds reasonable. Then I will remove this line in new patch.

Thanks,
Shenwei

> Thanks,
>
> tglx
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