linux-kernel - Re: Add IRQS_PENDING for nested and simple irq handler as well

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2012 10:49:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ning Jiang <ning.n.jiang@...il.com>
cc:	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add IRQS_PENDING for nested and simple irq handler as well

On Tue, 22 May 2012, Ning Jiang wrote:

Please do not top post.

> Sorry that I do not make myself clear.
> 
> First, we should keep all the handle_*_irq behave in pretty much the
> same way even just for the beauty of it. Every interrupt disabled in
> suspend operation needs the ability to abort suspend if there is a
> pending irq.
> 
> Second, let's take look at a example:
> 
>               |
>        +---------+
>         |   INTC  |
>        +---------+
>                   |  GPIO_IRQ
>             +------------+
>              | gpio-exp  |
>             +------------+
>                |            |
>    GPIO0_IRQ  GPIO1_IRQ
> 
> In the above diagram, gpio expander has irq number GPIO_IRQ, it is
> connected with two sub GPIO pins, GPIO0 and GPIO1.
> 
> During suspend, normally we want to set IRQF_NO_SUSPEND for GPIO_IRQ
> so that gpio expander driver can handle the sub irq GPIO0_IRQ and
> GPIO1_IRQ, and these two irqs themselves are handled by simple or
> nested irq in some drivers(typically gpio and mfd driver), if they are
> disabled during suspend, we want them to be able to abort suspend too.

Ok, that makes a lot of sense and should be part of the changelog, so
we know in a year from now why we did this change. Care to resend with
a fixed up changelog ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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