linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] PM: Rework handling of interrupts during suspend-resume

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902261404580.3111@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:10:39 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] PM: Rework handling of interrupts during
 suspend-resume

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> Well, how exactly the $subject patch does cause this problem to happen?

Rafael, the problem is that if an interrupt happens while it's disabled - 
but before the CPU has actually turned all interrupts off - the CPU will 
ACK the interrupt (but just set a flag for it being PENDING), so now the 
chipset logic around it will not see it as pending any more, so now the 
chipset won't auto-wake the CPU immediately (or more likely, it won't 
even suspend it).

It's trivial to fix multiple ways, so I wouldn't worry. The most trivial 
way is to just have some sysdev drievr code simply do something like

  static int sysdev_suspend()
  {
	for_each_irq(irq,desc) {
		if (!(desc->flags & IRQF_WAKE))
			continue;
		if (desc->flags & IRQ_PENDING)
			return -EBUSY;
	}
	return 0;
  }

and that should automatically mean that if any irq is pending, the suspend 
will fail and we'll immediately wake up again.

It looks trivial, and I don't understand why Arve can't just do the sysdev 
thing.

		Linus
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