Re: [PATCH] PM: suspend_device_irqs(): don't disable wakeup IRQs

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
What do you do if the interrupt triggers right after your driver has
returned from its late suspend hook?

If it's a wakeup IRQ, I assume you want it to prevent suspend.

But I don't see how that can happen in the current code. IIUC, by the
time your late suspend hook is run, your device IRQ is already
disabled, so it won't trigger an interrupt that will be caught by
check_wakeup_irqs() anyways.

My understanding of __disable_irq() was that it didn't actually disable the
IRQ at the hardware level, allowing the CPU to actually receive the interrupt
and acknowledge it, but preventing the device driver for receiving it.  Does
it work differently on the affected systems?

Hi, Rafael.
Sorry for bring the old issue but please let me ask you about
suspend_device_irqs() function.

__disable_irq() disables the IRQ at the hardware level in the
following irq_chips

i8259A_chip
i8259_pic
i8259A_chip
bfin_internal_irqchip
crisv10_irq_type
crisv32_irq_type
h8300irq_chip
m_irq_chip
mn10300_cpu_pic_level
xtensa_irq_chip
iop13xx_msi_chip
msi_irq

Because these irq_chips mask interrupts in 'disable' hook.

Thus, your suspend_device_irqs() function disables all IRQs at the
hardware level on all architectures which use irq_chips listed above
in suspend state.
Is this really what you wanted?

If interrupt can wake up the system from suspend in some architectures
and if disable_irq_wake is not supported in these architectures, I
wonder if suspend_device_irqs() don't allow waking up by interrupt.

Regards,
Kyuwon


I saw resume_device_irqs() is invoked after arch_suspend_enable_irqs()
in your resume code.
So in this gap between resume_device_irqs() and
arch_suspend_enable_irqs(), a few interrupts would be discarded.
i.e, a few data would be lost.

If keypad wake up the system, first key pressed information would be lost.
If I2C, USB, SPI, UART wake up the system, first a few data would be lost.

Did you also consider this issue?

I think it would happen anyway with the old code, wouldn't it?

That's not quite right.

For example, let's assume a keypad device is alive in suspend/resume
state to wake up the system. Before arch_suspend_enable_irqs(), none
of keypad irqs is dropped. It is just pending.

But in your code, a few irqs are discarded due to your resume_device_irqs().

You can't say for sure they are discarded, but there's a small window in which
they can be discarded.  The question is whether it does cause problems in
practice.

I tested it on my S3C6410(NCP) Board with MAX7359 keypad which is in
the Dmitry's Input repo.

Anyway, IMO the device that caused a wake-up event should be deactivated before
arch_suspend_enable_irqs() and remain inactive until its driver is actually
ready to handle interrupts generated by it.

Some devices such as Bluetooth chip, keypad(including gpio-key),
Modem(Telephony, Wlan) chip and etc, should be activated while the
system suspend/resume state. Because these devices may communicate
other systems and should receive external wake-up events.

Thanks
Kyuwon
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