[PATCH 13/25] OMAP4: PM: Add WakeupGen module as OMAP gic_arch_extn

[Shilimkar, Santosh]

Tony,
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> [110904 06:23]:
>> OMAP WakeupGen is the interrupt controller extension used along
>> with ARM GIC to wake the CPU out from low power states on
>> external interrupts.
>>
>> The WakeupGen unit is responsible for generating wakeup event
>> from the incoming interrupts and enable bits. It is implemented
>> in MPU always ON power domain. During normal operation,
>> WakeupGen delivers external interrupts directly to the GIC.
> ...
>
>> +     /*
>> +      * Override GIC architecture specific functions to add
>> +      * OMAP WakeupGen interrupt controller along with GIC
>> +      */
>> +     gic_arch_extn.irq_mask = wakeupgen_mask;
>> +     gic_arch_extn.irq_unmask = wakeupgen_unmask;
>> +     gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake = wakeupgen_set_wake;
>> +     gic_arch_extn.flags = IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND;
>
> As I've commented before, there should not be any need to tweak
> the wakeupgen registers for each interrupt during the runtime.
>
And I gave you all the reasons why it needs to be done this way.

> AFAIK the wakeupgen registers only need to be armed every time
> before entering idle.
>
No that doesn't work and it completely hacky approach.
This problem is for all SOC's using A9 SMP and GIC and every soc
has an architecture specific interrupt controller extension. And that
was the reason the GIC arch_extn was proposed.
It's just another IRQCHIP and works seamlessly being part of the
framework.  And it will also initialized with primary IRQCHIP( GIC).

Regards
Santosh