Re: [RESEND PATCH] pinctrl: rockchip: Disable interrupt when changing it's capability

From: JeffyChen
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 22:21:56 EST


Hi Doug,

On 05/09/2018 03:46 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
One note is that in the case Brian points at (where we need to
simulate EDGE_BOTH by swapping edges) we purposely ignored the TRM and
we needed to do that to avoid losing interrupts. For details, see
commit 53b1bfc76df2 ("pinctrl: rockchip: Avoid losing interrupts when
supporting both edges"). We did this because:

1. We believed that the IP block in Rockchip SoCs has nearly the same
logic as "gpio-dwapb.c" and that's what "gpio-dwapb.c" did.


hmm, but i saw the gpio-dwapb.c actually toggle trigger after handle irq, which might avoid the race Brian mentioned:
+ generic_handle_irq(gpio_irq);
+ irq_status &= ~BIT(hwirq);
+
+ if ((irq_get_trigger_type(gpio_irq) & IRQ_TYPE_SENSE_MASK)
+ == IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH)
+ dwapb_toggle_trigger(gpio, hwirq);


and i also saw ./qcom/pinctrl-msm.c do the toggle(msm_gpio_update_dual_edge_pos) at the end of msm_gpio_irq_set_type and msm_gpio_irq_ack, that seems can avoid the polarity races too.

2. We were actually losing real interrupts and this was the only way
we could figure out how to fix it.

When I tested that back in the day I was fairly convinced that we
weren't losing any interrupts in the EDGE_BOTH case after my fix, but
I certainly could have messed up.


For the EDGE_BOTH case it was important not to lose an interrupt
because, as you guys are talking about, we could end up configured the
wrong way. I think in your case where you're just picking one
polarity losing an interrupt shouldn't matter since it's undefined
exactly if an edge happens while you're in the middle of executing
rockchip_irq_set_type(). Is that right?

right, so we now have 2 cases: rockchip_irq_demux/ rockchip_irq_set_type

if i'm right about the spurious irq(only happen when set rising for a high gpio, or set falling for a low gpio), then:

1/ rockchip_irq_demux
it's important to not losing irqs in this case, maybe we can

a) ack irq
b) update polarity for edge both irq

we don't need to disable irq in b), since we would not hit the spurious irq cases here(always check gpio level to toggle it)


2/ rockchip_irq_set_type
it's important to not having spurious irqs

so we can disable irq during changing polarity only in these case:
((rising && gpio is heigh) || (falling && gpio is low))

i'm still confirming the spurious irq with IC guys.



-Doug