Re: [PATCH v1] gpio: dwapb: mask/unmask IRQ when disable/enable it

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:15 PM Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmm, that sounds like a problem, but the explanation is a bit unclear
> to me. AFAICS you are saying that the only callbacks which are
> called during the IRQ request/release are the irq_enable(), right? If
> so then the only reason why we haven't got a problem reported due to
> that so far is that the IRQs actually unmasked by default.

What we usually do in cases like that (and I have discussed this
with tglx in the past I think) is to simply mask off all IRQs in probe().
Then they will be unmasked when requested by drivers.

See e.g. gpio-pl061 that has this line in probe():
writeb(0, pl061->base + GPIOIE); /* disable irqs */

Yours,
Linus Walleij