Re: [PATCH] input: replace request_irq by request_any_context_irq in keyboard GPIO driver

Hi Dmitry,

On 1/20/2011 1:43 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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No, this it not correct. request_any_context_irq() means that you could
either get a hardirq or a treaded one. However above you are changing to
gpio_get_value_cansleep() which indicates that you can sleep.

You need to either revert to gpio_get_value() or explicitly request
threaded IRQ.

This could be problem. Say, we are doing request_any_context_irq(..) and gpio is over slow-bus,
so we naturally get into the threaded code, and in the thread handler we are calling gpio_get_value(..),
but in this case gpio_get_value could throw a warning that we should call gpio_get_value_cansleep(...)
because sleep attribute is added into the gpiolib hook implementation for these gpios.

Now suppose gpio is memory mapped and we enter into the hardirq and calling sleep variant into the 
handler code will be naturally bad. 

How about checking maysleep explicitly here while using the request_any_context_irq() call though
the semantics of gpiolib framework discourages that. 

Any drawbacks for explicitly switching to threaded IRQ and keeping
gpio_get_value_cansleep()? (That was the 2nd option I mentioned BTW).

Only drawback is that you get "dedicated thread" in case the irqs are not chained handler. In worst-case
it would introduce the latencies otherwise fine.

---Trilok Soni

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