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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2015-03-04 23:00:40 +0300
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2015-03-06 03:28:14 +0300
commit7438b633a6b073d66a3fa3678ec0dd5928caa4af (patch)
tree2320590721bb63a2aee321b9fc5531fb655effbd /Documentation/power
parent2c7af5ba65cfb0145ad8e11f856035c10ba0d22c (diff)
downloadlinux-7438b633a6b073d66a3fa3678ec0dd5928caa4af.tar.xz
genirq / PM: describe IRQF_COND_SUSPEND
With certain restrictions it is possible for a wakeup device to share an IRQ with an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND user, and the warnings introduced by commit cab303be91dc47942bc25de33dc1140123540800 are spurious. The new IRQF_COND_SUSPEND flag allows drivers to tell the core when these restrictions are met, allowing spurious warnings to be silenced. This patch documents how IRQF_COND_SUSPEND is expected to be used, updating some of the text now made invalid by its addition. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
index 50493c9284b4..8afb29a8604a 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ any special interrupt handling logic for it to work.
IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and enable_irq_wake()
-------------------------------------
-There are no valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
-flag on the same IRQ.
+There are very few valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the
+IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag on the same IRQ, and it is never valid to use both for the
+same device.
First of all, if the IRQ is not shared, the rules for handling IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
interrupts (interrupt handlers are invoked after suspend_device_irqs()) are
@@ -122,4 +123,13 @@ handlers are not invoked after suspend_device_irqs()).
Second, both enable_irq_wake() and IRQF_NO_SUSPEND apply to entire IRQs and not
to individual interrupt handlers, so sharing an IRQ between a system wakeup
-interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not make sense.
+interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not generally
+make sense.
+
+In rare cases an IRQ can be shared between a wakeup device driver and an
+IRQF_NO_SUSPEND user. In order for this to be safe, the wakeup device driver
+must be able to discern spurious IRQs from genuine wakeup events (signalling
+the latter to the core with pm_system_wakeup()), must use enable_irq_wake() to
+ensure that the IRQ will function as a wakeup source, and must request the IRQ
+with IRQF_COND_SUSPEND to tell the core that it meets these requirements. If
+these requirements are not met, it is not valid to use IRQF_COND_SUSPEND.