linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 6/7] i2c: tegra: fix PIO rx/tx residual transfer check

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:28:02 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Bitan Biswas <bbiswas@...dia.com>,
        Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
        Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:     Shardar Mohammed <smohammed@...dia.com>,
        Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@...dia.com>,
        Mantravadi Karthik <mkarthik@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 6/7] i2c: tegra: fix PIO rx/tx residual transfer check

13.06.2019 14:30, Bitan Biswas пишет:
> 
> 
> On 6/12/19 7:30 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 11.06.2019 13:51, Bitan Biswas пишет:
>>> Fix expression for residual bytes(less than word) transfer
>>> in I2C PIO mode RX/TX.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bitan Biswas <bbiswas@...dia.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>           /*
>>> -         * Update state before writing to FIFO.  If this casues us
>>> +         * Update state before writing to FIFO.  If this causes us
>>>            * to finish writing all bytes (AKA buf_remaining goes to
>>> 0) we
>>>            * have a potential for an interrupt (PACKET_XFER_COMPLETE is
>>> -         * not maskable).  We need to make sure that the isr sees
>>> -         * buf_remaining as 0 and doesn't call us back re-entrantly.
>>> +         * not maskable).
>>>            */
>>>           buf_remaining -= words_to_transfer * BYTES_PER_FIFO_WORD;
>>
>> Looks like the comment could be removed altogether because it doesn't
>> make sense since interrupt handler is under xfer_lock which is kept
>> locked during of tegra_i2c_xfer_msg().
> I would push a separate patch to remove this comment because of
> xfer_lock in ISR now.
> 
>>
>> Moreover the comment says that "PACKET_XFER_COMPLETE is not maskable",
>> but then what I2C_INT_PACKET_XFER_COMPLETE masking does?
>>
> I2C_INT_PACKET_XFER_COMPLETE masking support available in Tegra chips
> newer than Tegra30 allows one to not see interrupt after Packet transfer
> complete. With the xfer_lock in ISR the scenario discussed in comment
> can be ignored.

Also note that xfer_lock could be removed and replaced with a just
irq_enable/disable() calls in tegra_i2c_xfer_msg() because we only care
about IRQ not firing during of the preparation process.

It also looks like tegra_i2c_[un]nmask_irq isn't really needed and all
IRQ's could be simply unmasked during the driver's probe, in that case
it may worth to add a kind of "in-progress" flag to catch erroneous
interrupts.