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

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 14:05:06 EST


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.

2. That's not very good if something unknown is running on COP and then
kernel suddenly intervenes, don't you think so?