Re: [PATCH 1/2] gpio: pcf857x: Propagate wake-up setting to parent irq controller

From: Alexandre Courbot
Date: Wed Dec 17 2014 - 01:01:46 EST


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The pcf857x GPIO and interrupt controller uses dummy_irq_chip, which
> does not implement irq_chip.irq_set_wake() and does not set
> IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE.
>
> This causes two s2ram issues if wake-up is enabled for the pcf857x GPIO
> pins:
> 1. During resume from s2ram, the following warning is printed:
>
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1046 at kernel/irq/manage.c:537 irq_set_irq_wake+0x9c/0xf8()
> Unbalanced IRQ 113 wake disable
>
> 2. Wake-up through the pcf857x GPIO pins may fail, as the parent
> interrupt controller may be suspended.
>
> Migrate the pcf857x GPIO and interrupt controller from dummy_irq_chip to
> its own irq_chip. This irq chip implements irq_chip.irq_set_wake() to
> propagate its wake-up setting to the parent interrupt controller.
>
> This fixes wake-up through gpio-keys on sh73a0/kzm9g, where the pcf857x
> interrupt is cascaded to irq-renesas-intc-irqpin, and the latter must
> not be suspended when wake-up is enabled.

I am not very familiar with the IRQ subsystem, but wouldn't it be
possible (and better) to try and fix/adapt dummy_irq_chip so it
displays the right behavior? At least your first point looks like an
issue with it.
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