Re: [PATCH V6 01/21] irqchip: tegra: Do not disable COP IRQ during suspend

[Dmitry Osipenko]

02.08.2019 16:05, Peter De Schrijver ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 01:59:09PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 25.07.2019 13:38, Peter De Schrijver ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 01:33:48PM +0300, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 01:05:13PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>> 25.07.2019 12:55, Peter De Schrijver ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:54:51PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All Tegra SoCs support SC7, hence the 'supports_sc7' and the comment
>>>>>>> doesn't sound correct to me. Something like 'firmware_sc7' should suit
>>>>>>> better here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> +			writel_relaxed(~0ul, ictlr + ICTLR_COP_IER_CLR);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Secondly, I'm also not sure why COP interrupts need to be disabled for
>>>>>>> pre-T210 at all, since COP is unused. This looks to me like it was
>>>>>>> cut-n-pasted from downstream kernel without a good reason and could be
>>>>>>> simply removed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think we can rely on the fact that COP is unused. People can
>>>>>> write their own code to run on COP.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Not upstream - doesn't matter.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The code is not part of the kernel, so obviously it's not upstream?
>>>>
>>>>> 2. That's not very good if something unknown is running on COP and then
>>>>> kernel suddenly intervenes, don't you think so?
>>>>
>>>> Unless the code was written with this in mind.
>>>>
>>
>> In that case, please see 1. ;)
>>
> 
> In general the kernel should not touch the COP interrupts I think.
> 
>>>
>>> Looking at this again, I don't think we need to enable the IRQ at all.
>>
>> Could you please clarify? The code only saves/restores COP's interrupts
>> context across suspend-resume.
> 
> The sc7 entry firmware doesn't use interrupts.

Okay, it shouldn't hurt to clean up the LIC's code a tad by removing the
COP's bits, will make a patch.