RE: [PATCH] arm64: kexec: Check if IRQ is already masked before masking

["Farber, Eliav" <farbere@amazon.com>]

> Maybe a slightly better approach would be to simplify this code for something that actually uses the kernel infrastructure:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index 82e2203d86a31..9b48d952df3ec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> @@ -230,11 +230,8 @@ static void machine_kexec_mask_interrupts(void)
>                     chip->irq_eoi)
>                         chip->irq_eoi(&desc->irq_data);
>
> -               if (chip->irq_mask)
> -                       chip->irq_mask(&desc->irq_data);
> -
> -               if (chip->irq_disable && !irqd_irq_disabled(&desc->irq_data))
> -                       chip->irq_disable(&desc->irq_data);
> +               irq_set_status_flags(i, IRQ_DISABLE_UNLAZY);
> +               irq_disable(desc);
>         }
>  }
>
> This is of course untested.
I tested your suggested approach and it works.
I will publish V2 for this change.

Thanks, Eliav