linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: geni-se: Do not bother about enable/disable of interrupts in secondary sequencer for non-uart modes

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Date:   Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:57:24 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi <quic_vnivarth@...cinc.com>
Cc:     agross@...nel.org, andersson@...nel.org, konrad.dybcio@...aro.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        quic_msavaliy@...cinc.com, mka@...omium.org, swboyd@...omium.org,
        quic_vtanuku@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: geni-se: Do not bother about enable/disable of
 interrupts in secondary sequencer for non-uart modes

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 9:07 AM Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi
<quic_vnivarth@...cinc.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On 6/12/2023 7:09 PM, Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the review...
> >
> >
> > On 6/7/2023 9:41 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 11:13 AM Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi
> >> <quic_vnivarth@...cinc.com> wrote:
> >>> The select_fifo/dma_mode() functions in geni driver enable/disable
> >>> interrupts (secondary included) conditionally for non-uart modes, while
> >>> uart is supposed to manage this internally.
> >>> However, only uart uses secondary IRQs while spi, i2c do not care about
> >>> these at all making their enablement (or disablement) totally
> >>> unnecessary
> >>> for these protos.
> >>>
> >>> Drop enabling/disabling secondary IRQs for non-uart modes.
> >>> This doesn't solve any observed problem but only gets rid of code
> >>> pieces
> >>> that are not required.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Vijaya Krishna Nivarthi <quic_vnivarth@...cinc.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>   drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c | 24 ++++--------------------
> >>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >> This seems like a nice cleanup to me. It's still odd that the general
> >> code has a special case for UART, but I guess the alternative is to
> >> duplicate the exact same logic for both the i2c and SPI drivers. I
> >> won't insist on that, though I wouldn't be opposed to it either.
> >>
> >> I guess one comment, though: should we also remove the code that
> >> messes with "SE_GENI_S_IRQ_EN" in geni_se_select_gpi_mode()?
> >
> >
> > Right now we have gpi-dma mode support for i2c and spi but not for uart.
> >
> > Even when gpi-dma support is added, uart driver's interrupt handler
> > would not be invoked so I believe it would be safe to drop that code
> > from geni_se_select_gpi_mode() too.
> >
> > I will post v2 dropping same after some more lookup.
>
>
> Looking at this once again, I am more inclined towards leaving alone
> gpi_mode() for now.
>
> It probably needs cleanup but we want to take that up at a later time.
>
> Meanwhile its not causing much harm as we don't switch modes dynamically
> for gpi case, so we are not losing much time there reading from and
> writing to registers.
>
> Please let know your thoughts.

It's not really about the time needed for the extra register writes,
but just someone trying to understand the code who might be trying to
figure out what bits are relevant. The bits related to the secondary
sequencer's interrupts don't do anything useful when we're using the
controller for i2c/spi, so why not delete them?

-Doug