linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Refine irq affinity setting during resume

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Message-ID: <00dcf10a-6703-c2fc-f92e-e2cce3c12019@loongson.cn>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:32:13 +0800
From: maobibo <maobibo@...ngson.cn>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Huacai Chen
 <chenhuacai@...nel.org>, Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>, lvjianmin@...ngson.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Refine irq affinity
 setting during resume

Hi Thomas,

On 2024/2/13 下午5:49, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30 2024 at 16:27, Bibo Mao wrote:
>> During suspend and resume, CPUs except CPU0 can be hot-unpluged and IRQs
>> will be migrated to CPU0. So it is not necessary to restore irq affinity
>> for eiointc irq controller when system resumes.
> 
> That's not the reason. The point is that eiointc_router_init() which is
> invoked in the resume path affines all interrupts to CPU0, so the
> restore operation is redundant, no?
yes, it is. eiointc_router_init() will enable the irqs and affine all 
interrupts to CPU0. And it is redundant, the aim of deleted code wants
to resume older interrupt affinity when executing "echo mem > 
/sys/power/state".
> 
>> This patch removes this piece of code about irq affinity restoring in
>> function eiointc_resume().
> 
> Again. 'This patch' is pointless because we already know that this is a
> patch, no?
Thanks for your kindly help, English is somewhat difficult for me :)

Regards
Bibo Mao