[PATCH 2/3] gpio: brcmstb: implement irq_mask_ack
Andy Shevchenko
andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 23:36:46 PST 2026
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 3:06 AM Florian Fainelli
<florian.fainelli at broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> From: Doug Berger <opendmb at gmail.com>
>
> The irq_mask_ack operation is slightly more efficient than doing
> irq_mask and irq_ack separately.
I would refer to the callbacks as
.irq_mask()
.irq_ack()
et cetera.
> More importantly for this driver it bypasses the check of
> irqd_irq_masked ensuring a previously masked but still active
> interrupt gets remasked if unmasked at the hardware level. This
> allows the driver to more efficiently unmask the wake capable
> interrupts when quiescing without needing to enable the irqs
> individually to clear the irqd_irq_masked state.
...
> -// Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Broadcom
> +// Copyright (C) 2015-2026 Broadcom
Shouldn't it be rather 2015-2017,2026 ? (In one case when I updated a
driver for Intel, I went via Git history to gather the info.)
...
> static void brcmstb_gpio_set_imask(struct brcmstb_gpio_bank *bank,
> - unsigned int hwirq, bool enable)
> + unsigned int hwirq, bool enable, bool ack)
This type of interface is usually discouraged as it makes code harder
to read and follow. Since there are a lot of duplication, I recommend
to move the ack op to a separate helper.
...
> - gpio_generic_write_reg(&bank->chip,
> - priv->reg_base + GIO_MASK(bank->id), imask);
> + if (ack)
> + gpio_generic_write_reg(&bank->chip,
> + priv->reg_base + GIO_MASK(bank->id),
> + imask);
Id est this piece...
> +static void brcmstb_gpio_irq_mask_ack(struct irq_data *d)
> +{
> + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
> + struct brcmstb_gpio_bank *bank = gpiochip_get_data(gc);
> +
> + brcmstb_gpio_set_imask(bank, d->hwirq, false, true);
...and call it here explicitly (seems the only place for it, so it can
even be just moved here without an intermediate helper).
> }
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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