From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759447AbZBZWbf (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:31:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753638AbZBZWb0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:31:26 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:38839 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751645AbZBZWbZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:31:25 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] PM: Rework handling of interrupts during suspend-resume Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:30:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.29-rc5-tst; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Arve =?iso-8859-1?q?Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , LKML , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , pm list , Len Brown , Jesse Barnes , Thomas Gleixner References: <200902221837.49396.rjw@sisk.pl> <200902262258.55835.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902262330.52390.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 February 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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). Ah, I see now, thanks. > 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. Yeah. Thanks, Rafael