linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: at91: fix irq_pm_install

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:43:08 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Cc:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: at91: fix irq_pm_install_action WARNING

On Tuesday, March 03, 2015 04:35:40 PM Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Le 02/03/2015 10:18, Boris Brezillon a écrit :
> > My apologies to those of you who already received this series, but I
> > didn't increment the patch version and forgot some subsystem maintainers
> > and MLs.
> > 
> > Commit cab303be91dc47942bc25de33dc1140123540800 [1] introduced a WARN_ON
> > test which triggers a WARNING backtrace on at91 platforms.
> > While this WARN_ON is absolutely necessary to warn users that they should
> > not mix request with and without IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flags on shared IRQs,
> > there is no easy way to solve this issue on at91 platforms.
> > 
> > The main reason is that the init timer is often using a shared irq line
> > and thus request this irq with IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag set, while other
> > peripherals request the same irq line without this flag.
> > 
> > This problem has recently been addressed by this patch [2] which adds
> > a new IRQF_COND_SUSPEND flag, that authorize mixing IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and
> > !IRQF_NO_SUSPEND as long as irq handlers setting IRQF_COND_SUSPEND
> > can safely be called in suspended state.
> > 
> > Doing this also implies taking care of system wakeup in devices handlers
> > if they tag the IRQ line as a wakeup source.
> > The first patch of this series exports the pm_system_wakeup symbol so
> > that drivers can call pm_system_wakeup from their interrupt handler.
> > 
> > This series then patches all at91 drivers that can have devices sharing
> > their IRQ line with a timer.
> > 
> > This series depends on [2].
> 
> I'm okay with all the patches:
> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
> 
> As it seems easier to keep the whole series together, I'll let Rafael
> take it.

OK, I'll queue up the patches for the next PM pull request.

Thanks!

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