[PATCH] soundwire: cadence: Clear message complete before signaling waiting thread
From: Richard Fitzgerald
Date: Tue Mar 10 2026 - 07:46:48 EST
Clear the CDNS_MCP_INT_RX_WL interrupt before signaling completion.
This is to prevent the potential race where:
- The main thread is scheduled immediately the completion is signaled,
and starts a new message
- The RX_WL IRQ for this new message happens before sdw_cdns_irq() has
been re-scheduled.
- When sdw_cdns_irq() is re-scheduled it clears the new RX_WL interrupt.
MAIN THREAD | IRQ THREAD
|
_cdns_xfer_msg() |
{ |
write data to FIFO |
wait_for_completion_timeout() |
<BLOCKED> | <---- RX_WL IRQ
| sdw_cdns_irq()
| {
| signal completion
<== RESCHEDULE <==
Handle message completion |
} |
|
Start new message |
_cdns_xfer_msg() |
{ |
write data to FIFO |
wait_for_completion_timeout() |
<BLOCKED> | <---- RX_WL IRQ
==> RESCHEDULE ==>
| // New RX_WL IRQ is cleared before
| // it has been handled.
| clear CDNS_MCP_INTSTAT
| return IRQ_HANDLED;
| }
Before this change, this error message was sometimes seen on kernels
that have large amounts of debugging enabled:
SCP Msg trf timed out
This error indicates that the completion has not been signalled after
500ms.
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 956baa1992f9 ("soundwire: cdns: Add sdw_master_ops and IO transfer support")
Reported-by: Norman Bintang <normanbt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/477099834
---
drivers/soundwire/cadence_master.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/cadence_master.c b/drivers/soundwire/cadence_master.c
index f245c3ffb9e9..b8b62735c893 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/cadence_master.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/cadence_master.c
@@ -933,6 +933,14 @@ irqreturn_t sdw_cdns_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
cdns_read_response(cdns);
+ /*
+ * Clear interrupt before signalling the completion to avoid
+ * a race between this thread and the main thread starting
+ * another TX.
+ */
+ cdns_writel(cdns, CDNS_MCP_INTSTAT, CDNS_MCP_INT_RX_WL);
+ int_status &= ~CDNS_MCP_INT_RX_WL;
+
if (defer && defer->msg) {
cdns_fill_msg_resp(cdns, defer->msg,
defer->length, 0);
--
2.47.3