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  2. System Suspend and Device Interrupts
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  4. Copyright (C) 2014 Intel Corp.
  5. Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
  6. Suspending and Resuming Device IRQs
  7. -----------------------------------
  8. Device interrupt request lines (IRQs) are generally disabled during system
  9. suspend after the "late" phase of suspending devices (that is, after all of the
  10. ->prepare, ->suspend and ->suspend_late callbacks have been executed for all
  11. devices). That is done by suspend_device_irqs().
  12. The rationale for doing so is that after the "late" phase of device suspend
  13. there is no legitimate reason why any interrupts from suspended devices should
  14. trigger and if any devices have not been suspended properly yet, it is better to
  15. block interrupts from them anyway. Also, in the past we had problems with
  16. interrupt handlers for shared IRQs that device drivers implementing them were
  17. not prepared for interrupts triggering after their devices had been suspended.
  18. In some cases they would attempt to access, for example, memory address spaces
  19. of suspended devices and cause unpredictable behavior to ensue as a result.
  20. Unfortunately, such problems are very difficult to debug and the introduction
  21. of suspend_device_irqs(), along with the "noirq" phase of device suspend and
  22. resume, was the only practical way to mitigate them.
  23. Device IRQs are re-enabled during system resume, right before the "early" phase
  24. of resuming devices (that is, before starting to execute ->resume_early
  25. callbacks for devices). The function doing that is resume_device_irqs().
  26. The IRQF_NO_SUSPEND Flag
  27. ------------------------
  28. There are interrupts that can legitimately trigger during the entire system
  29. suspend-resume cycle, including the "noirq" phases of suspending and resuming
  30. devices as well as during the time when nonboot CPUs are taken offline and
  31. brought back online. That applies to timer interrupts in the first place,
  32. but also to IPIs and to some other special-purpose interrupts.
  33. The IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag is used to indicate that to the IRQ subsystem when
  34. requesting a special-purpose interrupt. It causes suspend_device_irqs() to
  35. leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work as
  36. expected during the suspend-resume cycle, but does not guarantee that the
  37. interrupt will wake the system from a suspended state -- for such cases it is
  38. necessary to use enable_irq_wake().
  39. Note that the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag affects the entire IRQ and not just one
  40. user of it. Thus, if the IRQ is shared, all of the interrupt handlers installed
  41. for it will be executed as usual after suspend_device_irqs(), even if the
  42. IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag was not passed to request_irq() (or equivalent) by some of
  43. the IRQ's users. For this reason, using IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and IRQF_SHARED at the
  44. same time should be avoided.
  45. System Wakeup Interrupts, enable_irq_wake() and disable_irq_wake()
  46. ------------------------------------------------------------------
  47. System wakeup interrupts generally need to be configured to wake up the system
  48. from sleep states, especially if they are used for different purposes (e.g. as
  49. I/O interrupts) in the working state.
  50. That may involve turning on a special signal handling logic within the platform
  51. (such as an SoC) so that signals from a given line are routed in a different way
  52. during system sleep so as to trigger a system wakeup when needed. For example,
  53. the platform may include a dedicated interrupt controller used specifically for
  54. handling system wakeup events. Then, if a given interrupt line is supposed to
  55. wake up the system from sleep sates, the corresponding input of that interrupt
  56. controller needs to be enabled to receive signals from the line in question.
  57. After wakeup, it generally is better to disable that input to prevent the
  58. dedicated controller from triggering interrupts unnecessarily.
  59. The IRQ subsystem provides two helper functions to be used by device drivers for
  60. those purposes. Namely, enable_irq_wake() turns on the platform's logic for
  61. handling the given IRQ as a system wakeup interrupt line and disable_irq_wake()
  62. turns that logic off.
  63. Calling enable_irq_wake() causes suspend_device_irqs() to treat the given IRQ
  64. in a special way. Namely, the IRQ remains enabled, by on the first interrupt
  65. it will be disabled, marked as pending and "suspended" so that it will be
  66. re-enabled by resume_device_irqs() during the subsequent system resume. Also
  67. the PM core is notified about the event which causes the system suspend in
  68. progress to be aborted (that doesn't have to happen immediately, but at one
  69. of the points where the suspend thread looks for pending wakeup events).
  70. This way every interrupt from a wakeup interrupt source will either cause the
  71. system suspend currently in progress to be aborted or wake up the system if
  72. already suspended. However, after suspend_device_irqs() interrupt handlers are
  73. not executed for system wakeup IRQs. They are only executed for IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
  74. IRQs at that time, but those IRQs should not be configured for system wakeup
  75. using enable_irq_wake().
  76. Interrupts and Suspend-to-Idle
  77. ------------------------------
  78. Suspend-to-idle (also known as the "freeze" sleep state) is a relatively new
  79. system sleep state that works by idling all of the processors and waiting for
  80. interrupts right after the "noirq" phase of suspending devices.
  81. Of course, this means that all of the interrupts with the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag
  82. set will bring CPUs out of idle while in that state, but they will not cause the
  83. IRQ subsystem to trigger a system wakeup.
  84. System wakeup interrupts, in turn, will trigger wakeup from suspend-to-idle in
  85. analogy with what they do in the full system suspend case. The only difference
  86. is that the wakeup from suspend-to-idle is signaled using the usual working
  87. state interrupt delivery mechanisms and doesn't require the platform to use
  88. any special interrupt handling logic for it to work.
  89. IRQF_NO_SUSPEND and enable_irq_wake()
  90. -------------------------------------
  91. There are very few valid reasons to use both enable_irq_wake() and the
  92. IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag on the same IRQ, and it is never valid to use both for the
  93. same device.
  94. First of all, if the IRQ is not shared, the rules for handling IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
  95. interrupts (interrupt handlers are invoked after suspend_device_irqs()) are
  96. directly at odds with the rules for handling system wakeup interrupts (interrupt
  97. handlers are not invoked after suspend_device_irqs()).
  98. Second, both enable_irq_wake() and IRQF_NO_SUSPEND apply to entire IRQs and not
  99. to individual interrupt handlers, so sharing an IRQ between a system wakeup
  100. interrupt source and an IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt source does not generally
  101. make sense.
  102. In rare cases an IRQ can be shared between a wakeup device driver and an
  103. IRQF_NO_SUSPEND user. In order for this to be safe, the wakeup device driver
  104. must be able to discern spurious IRQs from genuine wakeup events (signalling
  105. the latter to the core with pm_system_wakeup()), must use enable_irq_wake() to
  106. ensure that the IRQ will function as a wakeup source, and must request the IRQ
  107. with IRQF_COND_SUSPEND to tell the core that it meets these requirements. If
  108. these requirements are not met, it is not valid to use IRQF_COND_SUSPEND.