Re: [PATCH] x86/hpet: Cure interface abuse in the resume path

[Tomi Sarvela]

On 31/07/17 23:07, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The HPET resume path abuses irq_domain_[de]activate_irq() to restore the
> MSI message in the HPET chip for the boot CPU on resume and it relies on an
> implementation detail of the interrupt core code, which magically makes the
> HPET unmask call invoked via a irq_disable/enable pair. This worked as long
> as the irq code did unconditionally invoke the unmask() callback. With the
> recent changes which keep track of the masked state to avoid expensive
> hardware access, this does not longer work. As a consequence the HPET timer
> interrupts are not unmasked which breaks resume as the boot CPU waits
> forever that a timer interrupt arrives.
>
> Make the restore of the MSI message explicit and invoke the unmask()
> function directly. While at it get rid of the pointless affinity setting as
> nothing can change the affinity of the interrupt and the vector across
> suspend/resume. The restore of the MSI message reestablishes the previous
> affinity setting which is the correct one.
>
> Fixes: bf22ff45bed6 ("genirq: Avoid unnecessary low level irq function calls")
> Reported-by: Martin Peres <martin.peres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Tomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested only on the regressed Eagle Lake testhost. This patch fixes the 
suspend/resume issue.

Tomi
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