[ 36/42] mfd: Clear twl6030 IRQ status register only once

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 11 2012 - 19:32:30 EST


3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>

commit 3f8349e6e98ba0455437724589072523865eae5e upstream.

TWL6030 family of PMIC use a shadow interrupt status register
while kernel processes the current interrupt event.
However, any write(0 or 1) to register INT_STS_A, INT_STS_B or
INT_STS_C clears all 3 interrupt status registers.

Since clear of the interrupt is done on 32k clk, depending on I2C
bus speed, we could in-adverently clear the status of a interrupt
status pending on shadow register in the current implementation.
This is due to the fact that multi-byte i2c write operation into
three seperate status register could result in multiple load
and clear of status and result in lost interrupts.

Instead, doing a single byte write to INT_STS_A register with 0x0
will clear all three interrupt status registers without the related
risk.

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c
@@ -145,8 +145,17 @@ static int twl6030_irq_thread(void *data
}
local_irq_enable();
}
- ret = twl_i2c_write(TWL_MODULE_PIH, sts.bytes,
- REG_INT_STS_A, 3); /* clear INT_STS_A */
+
+ /*
+ * NOTE:
+ * Simulation confirms that documentation is wrong w.r.t the
+ * interrupt status clear operation. A single *byte* write to
+ * any one of STS_A to STS_C register results in all three
+ * STS registers being reset. Since it does not matter which
+ * value is written, all three registers are cleared on a
+ * single byte write, so we just use 0x0 to clear.
+ */
+ ret = twl_i2c_write_u8(TWL_MODULE_PIH, 0x00, REG_INT_STS_A);
if (ret)
pr_warning("twl6030: I2C error in clearing PIH ISR\n");



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