Re: [PATCH 5/9] powerpc/85xx: disable irq by hardware when suspend for 64-bit

[Chenhui Zhao <chenhui.zhao@freescale.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 06:51:20PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:58 +0800, Chenhui Zhao wrote:
> > In 64-bit mode, kernel just clears the irq soft-enable flag
> > in struct paca_struct to disable external irqs. But, in
> > the case of suspend, irqs should be disabled by hardware.
> > Therefore, hook a function to ppc_md.suspend_disable_irqs
> > to really disable irqs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chenhui Zhao <chenhui.zhao@freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c |   12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > index 3fdf9f3..983d81f 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > @@ -32,6 +32,13 @@
> >  #include <sysdev/fsl_pci.h>
> >  #include "smp.h"
> >  
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) && defined(CONFIG_SUSPEND)
> > +static void fsl_suspend_disable_irqs(void)
> > +{
> > +	__hard_irq_disable();
> > +}
> > +#endif
> 
> Why the underscore version?  Don't you want PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS to be set?
> 
> If hard disabling is appropriate here, shouldn't we do it in
> generic_suspend_disable_irqs()?
> 
> Are there any existing platforms that supply a
> ppc_md.suspend_disable_irqs()?  I don't see any when grepping.
> 
> -Scott

Will use hard_irq_disable().

I think this is a general problem for powerpc.
Should clear MSR_EE before suspend. I agree to put it
in generic_suspend_disable_irqs().

-Chenhui