Re: [PATCH] i2c: davinci: fix the cpufreq transition

From: Sekhar Nori
Date: Tue Jan 23 2018 - 07:40:21 EST


On Monday 22 January 2018 08:12 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> i2c_davinci_cpufreq_transition() is implemented in a way that will
> block if it ever gets called while no transfer is in progress.

true!

>
> Not only that, but reinit_completion() is never called for xfr_complete.

reinit_completion() use is must only with complete_all(). At least that
bug is not obvious so needs more detail to be added here.

> Use the fact that cpufreq uses an srcu_notifier (running in process
> context) for transitions and that the bus_lock is taken during the call
> to master_xfer() and simplify the code by removing the transfer
> completion entirely and protecting i2c_davinci_cpufreq_transition()
> with i2c_lock/unlock_adapter().
>
> Reported-by: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I assume you tested this on a board where I2C-controlled PMIC changes
voltage during CPUfreq (DA850 LogicPD EVM should have this hardware
support).

Perhaps also add:

Fixes: 82c0de11b734 ("i2c: davinci: Add cpufreq support")

Apart from that:

Reviewed-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx>

Thanks,
Sekhar