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SubjectRe: [Question]should we not ignore the masked interrupt in regmap?
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:14:27AM +0800, yi zhang wrote:

> 1) interrupt is triggered;
> 2) a thread disables it(then the mask bit is set);
> 3) _Then_ the interrupt thread is executed, it _ignore _ and doesn’t
> handle this interrupt;
> because the interrupt is not ACKed, the interrupt status is not cleared;
> 4) in Marvell's PMIC, the interrupt line to SOC is always asserted,
> then irq storm happens;

This sounds like you need the workaround activated by init_ack_masked.
It's basically the hardware failing to implement masking sensibly - the
general expectation for a mask bit is that it will have no effect on the
actual state of the interrupt, only on if it's reported.
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