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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/interrupt.h4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
index 2f9c5a5fcb25..50493c9284b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ but also to IPIs and to some other special-purpose interrupts.
The IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag is used to indicate that to the IRQ subsystem when
requesting a special-purpose interrupt. It causes suspend_device_irqs() to
-leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work all
-the time as expected.
+leave the corresponding IRQ enabled so as to allow the interrupt to work as
+expected during the suspend-resume cycle, but does not guarantee that the
+interrupt will wake the system from a suspended state -- for such cases it is
+necessary to use enable_irq_wake().
Note that the IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag affects the entire IRQ and not just one
user of it. Thus, if the IRQ is shared, all of the interrupt handlers installed
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index d9b05b5bf8c7..606771c7cac2 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@
* IRQF_ONESHOT - Interrupt is not reenabled after the hardirq handler finished.
* Used by threaded interrupts which need to keep the
* irq line disabled until the threaded handler has been run.
- * IRQF_NO_SUSPEND - Do not disable this IRQ during suspend
+ * IRQF_NO_SUSPEND - Do not disable this IRQ during suspend. Does not guarantee
+ * that this interrupt will wake the system from a suspended
+ * state. See Documentation/power/suspend-and-interrupts.txt
* IRQF_FORCE_RESUME - Force enable it on resume even if IRQF_NO_SUSPEND is set
* IRQF_NO_THREAD - Interrupt cannot be threaded
* IRQF_EARLY_RESUME - Resume IRQ early during syscore instead of at device