linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix external abort on interrupt in exit paths

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:33:54 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Fix external abort on interrupt
 in exit paths

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 16:28, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 04:14:06PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 16:10, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > It is a slightly different bug which so this patch should have a follow
> > > up.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Krzysztof
> > >
> >
> > Why is it a different bug? It's the same bug.
>
> One bug is using devm-interface for shared interrupts and second is not
> caring about suspend/resume.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>

The problem is that you don't have a way to stop servicing a shared
interrupt safely and on demand, before clk_disable_unprepare.
So it's exactly the same problem on suspend and on remove.
Avoiding to think about the suspend problem now means that you'll end
up having an overall worse solution.