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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 02/22] PM / devfreq: tegra30: Keep interrupt disabled
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>There is no real need to keep interrupt always-enabled, will be nicer
>to keep it disabled while governor is inactive.
>
>Suggested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
>Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
>---
> drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c
>index a27300f40b0b..5e2b133babdd 100644
>--- a/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c
>+++ b/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c
[]
>@@ -416,8 +417,6 @@ static void tegra_actmon_start(struct tegra_devfreq *tegra)
> {
> 	unsigned int i;
> 
>-	disable_irq(tegra->irq);
>-
> 	actmon_writel(tegra, ACTMON_SAMPLING_PERIOD - 1,
> 		      ACTMON_GLB_PERIOD_CTRL);
> 

I think this has nothing to do with
"keep it disabled while governor is inactive."

And this looks dangerous because it disables the safety measure
of disabling interrupt while you touch some looking-critical registers.
Anyway, as I do not know the internals of Tegra SoC, I cannot sure.

Cheers,
MyungJoo