linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: tegra: Remove suspend-resume

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Message-ID: <5949e650-8ab5-b4bb-196d-5a0705383141@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 15:51:28 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Shardar Shariff Md <smohammed@...dia.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: tegra: Remove suspend-resume

On 14.05.2018 15:21, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> 
> 
> On Monday 14 May 2018 05:29 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:13:47AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> Nothing prevents I2C clients to access I2C while Tegra's driver is being
>>> suspended, this results in -EBUSY error returned to the clients and that
>>> may have unfortunate consequences. In particular this causes problems
>>> for the TPS6586x MFD driver which emits hundreds of "failed to read
>>> interrupt status" error messages on resume from suspend. This happens if
>>> TPS6586X is used to wake system from suspend by the expired RTC alarm
>>> timer because TPS6586X is an I2C device driver and its IRQ handler reads
>>> the status register while Tegra's I2C driver is suspended, i.e. just after
>>> kernel enabled IRQ's during of resume-from-suspend process.
>>>
>>> Note that the removed tegra_i2c_resume() invoked tegra_i2c_init() which
>>> performs HW reset. That seems was also not entirely correct because moving
>>> tegra_i2c_resume to an earlier stage of resume-from-suspend process causes
>>> I2C transfer to fail in the case of TPS6586X. It is fine to remove the
>>> HW-reinitialization for now because it should be only needed in a case of
>>> using lowest power-mode during suspend, which upstream kernel doesn't
>>> support.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
>>> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 33 ---------------------------------
>>>   1 file changed, 33 deletions(-)
>> Shardar, Laxman, any thoughts on this? The is_suspended thing looks to
>> me like a workaround of some sort that may not be needed if clients have
>> proper suspend/resume implementations. Even without suspend/resume
>> support in client drivers, the driver core should resume devices in the
>> right order (I2C adapter before any of the clients), so I don't see any
>> cases where the is_suspended logic would be useful.
>>
> 
> Our I2C driver is based on the interrupt. So we have converted the
> suspend/resume to suspend_noirq and reseume_noirq so that we will not allow the
> transfer when system interrupt disabled in downstream.
>           SET_NOIRQ_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS(tegra_i2c_suspend, tegra_i2c_resume)
> 
> In shutdown path, where interrupt disabled and still need i2c, we use the
> bit-bang method via GPIO for i2c transfer.
In the current upstream kernel suspend/resume can't be simply moved to the
'noirq' stage because resume invokes tegra_i2c_init() which uses runtime PM and
that doesn't work with the IRQ's being disabled. But things do not work even
with the tegra_i2c_init() changed to work with the disabled IRQ's, like I wrote
above the I2C transfer fails (due to timeout) and a "fix" for that failure was
to remove reset_control_assert/deassert from the tegra_i2c_init(). So I'd go for
a complete suspend/resume removal for now as it is causes problem.