On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > > What I do not understand here is that we have already power management > > around all of that. > > > > irq_chip_pm_get(&desc->irq_data); > > ... > > chip_bus_lock(desc); > > ... > > chip_bus_unlock_sync(desc); > > ... > > irq_chip_pm_put(&desc->irq_data); > > > > So why is that not sufficient and needs extra magic in that GPIO driver? > > Well, irq_chip_pm_get/put() isn't called just over the operation, it's > called over the *whole* sequence of the irq being enabled at all. > > So the different (right now) is that > > - chip_bus_lock/unlock_sync() is purely done around the actual > operations to set up and tear down the irq data. > > So this just covers the very short setup/teardown. > > - irq_chip_pm_get/put() is called around the *whole* "irqs can be active" > block > > This covers the whole lifetime of the irq, from setup to free. > > Very different. > > I'd really prefer my simple patch for now, leaving everything working > the way it used to work. I *think* it's ok for RT too. Yes?
Not completely, because of the free path issues. See the other mail. Tony confirmed that it works. I wait for Sebastian and queue it with a proper changelog, ok? Thanks, tglx