[RFC PATCH 0/3] genirq: mixing IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and wakeup sources on shared IRQs

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, February 26, 2015 09:03:47 AM Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:59:36 +0100
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:55:59 AM Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I put the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND_SAFE/IRQF_TIMER_SIBLING_OK/WHATEVER_NAME_YOU_CHOOSE
> > > debate aside to concentrate on another problem pointed out by Rafael and
> > > Mark: the fact that we cannot mix IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and wakeup sources on
> > > a shared IRQ line.
> > > 
> > > This is because the wakeup code is prevailing the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND case
> > > and will trigger a system wakeup as soon as the IRQ line is tagged as a
> > > wakeup source.
> > > 
> > > This series propose an approach to deal with such cases by doing the
> > > following:
> > > 1/ Prevent any system wakeup when at least one of the IRQ user has set
> > >    the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag
> > > 2/ Adapt IRQ handlers so that they can safely be called in suspended
> > >    state
> > > 3/ Let drivers decide when the system should be woken up
> > > 
> > > Let me know what you think of this approach.
> > 
> > So I have the appended patch that should deal with all that too (it doesn't
> > rework drivers that need to share NO_SUSPEND IRQs and do wakeup, but that
> > can be done on top of it in a straightforward way).
> > 
> > The idea is quite simple.  By default, the core replaces the interrupt handlers
> > of everyone sharing NO_SUSPEND lines and not using IRQF_NO_SUSPEND with a null
> > handler always returning IRQ_NONE at the suspend_device_irqs() time (the
> > rationale being that if you don't use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND, then your device has
> > no reason to generate interrupts after that point).  The original handlers are
> > then restored by resume_device_irqs().
> > 
> > However, if the IRQ is configured for wakeup, there may be a reason to generate
> > interrupts from a device not using IRQF_NO_SUSPEND.  For that, the patch adds
> > IRQF_COND_SUSPEND that, if set, will prevent the default behavior described
> > above from being applied to irqactions using it if the IRQs in question are
> > configured for wakeup.  Of course, the users of IRQF_COND_SUSPEND are supposed
> > to implement wakeup detection in their interrupt handlers and then call
> > pm_system_wakeup() if necessary.
> 
> That patch sounds good to me.

But it is still a bit risky.  Namely, if the driver in question is sufficiently
broken (eg. it may not suspend the device and rely on the fact that its interrupt
handler will be run just because it is sharing a "no suspend" IRQ), we may get
an interrupt storm.

Isn't that a problem?

> Could you send it on its own to the appropriate MLs ?

Sure, I can do that, but I'd like to hear from the other people on the CC first.

> Thomas, Peter, Mark, could you share you opinion ?
> I know I'm a bit insistent on this fix, but I'd really like to get away
> from this warning backtrace (and the associated problems behind it) as
> soon as possible.

Yeah, me too. :-)


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.