On Thursday 18 October 2007 03:25:42 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> synchronize_irq needs at the very least a compiler barrier and a
> read barrier on SMP, but there are enough cases around where a
> write barrier is also needed and it's not a hot path so I prefer
> using a full smp_mb() here.
> 
> It will degrade to a compiler barrier on !SMP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> 
> Index: linux-work/kernel/irq/manage.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-work.orig/kernel/irq/manage.c       2007-10-18 11:22:16.000000000 
> +1000
> +++ linux-work/kernel/irq/manage.c    2007-10-18 11:22:20.000000000 +1000
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ void synchronize_irq(unsigned int irq)
>       if (irq >= NR_IRQS)
>               return;
>  
> +     smp_mb();
>       while (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
>               cpu_relax();
>  }
> 
> 
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Hi,

I have read this thread and I concluded few things:

1) It is impossible to know that the card won't send more interrupts:
Even if I do a read from the device, the IRQ can be pending in the bus/APIC
It is even possible (and likely) that the IRQ line will be shared, thus the 
handler can be called by non-relevant device.

2) the synchronize_irq(); in .suspend is useless:
an IRQ can happen immediately after this synchronize_irq();
and interrupt even the .suspend()
(At least theoretically)


Thus I now understand that .suspend() should do:

        saa_writel(SAA7134_IRQ1, 0);
        saa_writel(SAA7134_IRQ2, 0);
        saa_writel(SAA7134_MAIN_CTRL, 0);

        dev->insuspend = 1;
        smp_wmb();

        /* at that point the _request to disable card's IRQs was issued, we 
don't know 
           that there will be no irqs anymore.
           the smp_mb(); guaranties that the IRQ handler will bail out in that 
case. */
        
        /* .......*/

        pci_save_state(pci_dev);
        pci_set_power_state(pci_dev, pci_choose_state(pci_dev, state));
        return 0;

and the interrupt handler:

        smp_rmb();
        if (dev->insuspend)
                goto out;

Am I right?
        Best regards,
                Maxim Levitsky
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