Re: [PATCH 1/10] PM: Rework handling of interrupts during suspend-resume(rev. 5)

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > > +			desc->status |= IRQ_SUSPENDED;
> > > > 
> > > >   This flag needs to be checked in __enable_irq().
> > > 
> > > [I overlooked this comment, sorry.]
> > > 
> > > Why does it?
> > 
> > To catch abuse and callers of enable_irq() when this flag is set.
> 
> Hmm.  This means you'd like to make enable_irq() fail if called with
> IRQ_SUSPENDED set, correct?
> 
> What if someone calls irq_disable() and then irq_enable() between
> suspend_device_irqs() and resume_device_irqs()?  That would be pointless, but
> surely not a bug?  Should irq_disable() also fail if IRQ_SUSPENDED is set?

I'm not worried about nested ones.

> Or should __enable_irq() only fail with IRQ_SUSPENDED set for desc->depth == 1?

At least it needs a WARN_ON() in that case. A very prominent one.

Thanks,

	tglx
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