[PATCH v8 5/7] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - don't do unaligned reads in IRQ context
From: David Heidelberg via B4 Relay
Date: Tue Mar 24 2026 - 15:43:35 EST
From: Kaustabh Chakraborty <kauschluss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Some replacement displays include third-party touch ICs which incur a
significant penalty (1-2 seconds) when doing certain unaligned reads.
This is enough to break functionality when it happens in the hot path,
so adjust the interrupt handler to not read from an unaligned address.
Signed-off-by: Kaustabh Chakraborty <kauschluss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Casey Connolly <casey.connolly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c b/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c
index dea04cf076eb4..fc84799c36e04 100644
--- a/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c
@@ -137,9 +137,14 @@ static int rmi_process_interrupt_requests(struct rmi_device *rmi_dev)
return 0;
if (!data->attn_data.data) {
+ /*
+ * Read the device status register as well and ignore it.
+ * Some aftermarket ICs have issues with interrupt requests
+ * otherwise.
+ */
error = rmi_read_block(rmi_dev,
- data->f01_container->fd.data_base_addr + 1,
- data->irq_status, data->num_of_irq_regs);
+ data->f01_container->fd.data_base_addr,
+ (u8 *)data->irq_status - 1, data->num_of_irq_regs + 1);
if (error < 0) {
dev_err(dev, "Failed to read irqs, code=%d\n", error);
return error;
@@ -1078,16 +1083,17 @@ int rmi_probe_interrupts(struct rmi_driver_data *data)
data->num_of_irq_regs = (data->irq_count + 7) / 8;
size = BITS_TO_LONGS(data->irq_count) * sizeof(unsigned long);
- data->irq_memory = devm_kcalloc(dev, size, 4, GFP_KERNEL);
+ data->irq_memory = devm_kzalloc(dev, size * 4 + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!data->irq_memory) {
dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate memory for irq masks.\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}
- data->irq_status = data->irq_memory + size * 0;
- data->fn_irq_bits = data->irq_memory + size * 1;
- data->current_irq_mask = data->irq_memory + size * 2;
- data->new_irq_mask = data->irq_memory + size * 3;
+ /* The first byte is reserved for the device status register */
+ data->irq_status = data->irq_memory + size * 0 + 1;
+ data->fn_irq_bits = data->irq_memory + size * 1 + 1;
+ data->current_irq_mask = data->irq_memory + size * 2 + 1;
+ data->new_irq_mask = data->irq_memory + size * 3 + 1;
return retval;
}
--
2.53.0