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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Chenhui Zhao <chenhui.zhao@freescale.com>
Cc: <b29983@freescale.com>, <b07421@freescale.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tang Yuantian <Yuantian.Tang@freescale.com>,
	Tang Yuantian <Yuantian.Tang@feescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Powerpc: mpc85xx: refactor the PM operations
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 21:57:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438829848.2097.129.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438769477.21522.0@remotesmtp.freescale.net>

On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 18:11 +0800, Chenhui Zhao wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 19:32 +0800, Chenhui Zhao wrote:
> > >  >
> > 
> > >  On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> > >  wrote:
> > 
> > >  >
> > >  > Could you explain irq_mask()?  Why would there still be IRQs 
> > > destined
> > >  > for
> > >  > this CPU at this point?
> > > 
> > >  This function just masks irq by setting the registers in RCPM (for
> > >  example, RCPM_CPMIMR, RCPM_CPMCIMR). Actually, all irqs to this CPU
> > >  have been migrated to other CPUs.
> > 
> > So why do we need to set those bits in RCPM?  Is it just caution?
> 
> Setting these bits can mask interrupts signalled to RCPM from MPIC as a 
> means of
> waking up from a lower power state. So, cores will not be waked up 
> unexpectedly.

Why would the MPIC be signalling those interrupts if they've been masked at 
the MPIC?

-Scott



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-06  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31  9:20 [PATCH 1/3] Powerpc: mpc85xx: refactor the PM operations b29983
2015-07-31  9:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] PowerPC/mpc85xx: Add hotplug support on E5500 and E500MC cores b29983
2015-08-01  0:14   ` Scott Wood
2015-08-03 11:52     ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-03 21:18       ` Scott Wood
2015-08-05 10:39         ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-07-31  9:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] PowerPC/mpc85xx: Add hotplug support on E6500 cores b29983
2015-08-01  0:22   ` Scott Wood
2015-08-05 11:08     ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-06  3:16       ` Scott Wood
2015-08-06  4:32         ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-06  5:44           ` Scott Wood
2015-07-31 23:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] Powerpc: mpc85xx: refactor the PM operations Scott Wood
2015-08-03 11:32   ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-03 20:26     ` Scott Wood
2015-08-05 10:11       ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-06  2:57         ` Scott Wood [this message]
2015-08-06  4:20           ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-06  5:46             ` Scott Wood
2015-08-06  5:54               ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-06 18:02                 ` Scott Wood
2015-08-07  3:19                   ` Chenhui Zhao
2015-08-08  0:13                     ` Scott Wood

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