linux-kernel - regcache_sync() errors for read-only registers cache

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:59:30 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: regcache_sync() errors for read-only registers cache

Hi Mark,

the current regcache_sync() has a problem when there are read-only
registers that are cached in regmap: it tries to write all cached
registers no matter whether it's writable or not, resulting in
kernel errors like "Unable to sync register 0x1234. -5".

A quick fix is the patch like below, but obviously it doesn't cover
the all cases but only addresses the signle rw.

Also, _regmap_write() itself calls again regmap_writeable(), so it's
superfluous.  Alternatively, we may check -EIO from _regmap_write()
and treat as a special case not to show the error.  Or, add a
parameter to skip regmap_writeable() call.

Takashi

-- 8< --
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] regmap: Skip read-only registers in regcache_sync_block_single()

regcache_sync() spews warnings when a value was cached for a read-only
register as it tries to write all registers no matter whether they are
writable or not.  This patch fixes (a part of) the problem by adding
regmap_writeable() check in regcache_sync_block_single().

Note that the patch covers only the code path using single rw.  When a
raw block write is used, the problem may still exist.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
---

 drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
index f373c35f9e1d..30534864735c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
@@ -617,6 +617,8 @@ static int regcache_sync_block_single(struct regmap *map, void *block,
 		ret = regcache_lookup_reg(map, regtmp);
 		if (ret >= 0 && val == map->reg_defaults[ret].def)
 			continue;
+		if (!regmap_writeable(map, regtmp))
+			continue;

 		map->cache_bypass = 1;

-- 
2.3.0

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