[PATCH 6.18 312/752] mailbox: imx: Skip the suspend flag for i.MX7ULP

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:52:30Z

From: Jacky Bai <ping.bai@nxp.com>

[ Upstream commit 673b570825ace0dcb2ac0c676080559d505c6f40 ]

In current imx-mailbox driver, the MU IRQ is configured with
'IRQF_NO_SUSPEND' flag set. So during linux suspend/resume flow,
the MU IRQ is always enabled. With commit 892cb524ae8a ("mailbox: imx:
fix wakeup failure from freeze mode"), if the MU IRQ is triggered after
the priv->suspended flag has been set, the system suspend will be
aborted.

On i.MX7ULP platform, certain drivers that depend on rpmsg may need
to send rpmsg request and receive an acknowledgment from the remote
core during the late_suspend stage. Early suspend abort is not
expected, and the i.MX7ULP already has additional hardware and
software to make sure the system can be wakeup from freeze mode
correctly when MU IRQ is trigger.

Skip the 'suspend' flag handling logic on i.MX7ULP to avoid the
early abort when doing suspend.

Signed-off-by: Jacky Bai <ping.bai@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/mailbox/imx-mailbox.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/imx-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/imx-mailbox.c
index 6778afc64a048..003f9236c35e0 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/imx-mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/imx-mailbox.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct imx_mu_dcfg {
u32 xRR; /* Receive Register0 */
u32 xSR[IMX_MU_xSR_MAX]; /* Status Registers */
u32 xCR[IMX_MU_xCR_MAX]; /* Control Registers */
+ bool skip_suspend_flag;
};

#define IMX_MU_xSR_GIPn(type, x) (type & IMX_MU_V2 ? BIT(x) : BIT(28 + (3 - (x))))
@@ -988,6 +989,7 @@ static const struct imx_mu_dcfg imx_mu_cfg_imx7ulp = {
.xRR = 0x40,
.xSR = {0x60, 0x60, 0x60, 0x60},
.xCR = {0x64, 0x64, 0x64, 0x64, 0x64},
+ .skip_suspend_flag = true,
};

static const struct imx_mu_dcfg imx_mu_cfg_imx8ulp = {
@@ -1071,7 +1073,8 @@ static int __maybe_unused imx_mu_suspend_noirq(struct device *dev)
priv->xcr[i] = imx_mu_read(priv, priv->dcfg->xCR[i]);
}

- priv->suspend = true;
+ if (!priv->dcfg->skip_suspend_flag)
+ priv->suspend = true;

return 0;
}
@@ -1094,7 +1097,8 @@ static int __maybe_unused imx_mu_resume_noirq(struct device *dev)
imx_mu_write(priv, priv->xcr[i], priv->dcfg->xCR[i]);
}

- priv->suspend = false;
+ if (!priv->dcfg->skip_suspend_flag)
+ priv->suspend = false;

return 0;
}
--
2.51.0