Re: [PATCH] i2c: omap: fix NACK and Arbitration Lost irq handling

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Thu Nov 20 2014 - 16:10:52 EST


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:00:58PM +0400, Alexander Kochetkov wrote:
> commit 1d7afc95946487945cc7f5019b41255b72224b70 (i2c: omap: ack IRQ in parts)
> changed the interrupt handler to complete transfers without clearing
> XRDY (AL case) and ARDY (NACK case) flags. XRDY or ARDY interrupts will be
> fired again. As a result, ISR keep processing transfer after it was already
> complete (from the driver code point of view).
>
> A didn't see real impacts of the 1d7afc9, but it is really bad idea to
> have ISR running on user data after transfer was complete.
>
> It looks, what 1d7afc9 violate TI specs in what how AL and NACK should be
> handled (see Note 1, sprugn4r, Figure 17-31 and Figure 17-32).
>
> According to specs (if I understood correctly), in case of NACK and AL driver
> must reset NACK, AL, ARDY, RDR, and RRDY (Master Receive Mode), and
> NACK, AL, ARDY, and XDR (Master Transmitter Mode).
>
> All that is done down the code under the if condition:
> if (stat & (OMAP_I2C_STAT_ARDY | OMAP_I2C_STAT_NACK | OMAP_I2C_STAT_AL)) ...
>
> The patch restore pre 1d7afc9 logic of handling NACK and AL interrupts, so
> no interrupts is fired after ISR informs the rest of driver what transfer
> complete.
>
> Note: instead of removing break under NACK case, we could just replace 'break'
> with 'continue' and allow NACK transfer to finish using ARDY event. I found
> that NACK and ARDY bits usually set together. That case confirm TI wiki:
> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/I2C_Tips#Detecting_and_handling_NACK
>
> In order if someone interested in the event traces for NACK and AL cases,
> I sent them to mailing list.
>
> Tested on Beagleboard XM C.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 1d7afc9 i2c: omap: ack IRQ in parts
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.7+

I could not see any breakage or anything wrong on OMAP2 & OMAP3.
On OMAP1 I don't have anything on the OMAP I2C bus, so cannot really
test anything there.

Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
> index 90dcc2e..9af7095 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
> @@ -926,14 +926,12 @@ omap_i2c_isr_thread(int this_irq, void *dev_id)
> if (stat & OMAP_I2C_STAT_NACK) {
> err |= OMAP_I2C_STAT_NACK;
> omap_i2c_ack_stat(dev, OMAP_I2C_STAT_NACK);
> - break;
> }
>
> if (stat & OMAP_I2C_STAT_AL) {
> dev_err(dev->dev, "Arbitration lost\n");
> err |= OMAP_I2C_STAT_AL;
> omap_i2c_ack_stat(dev, OMAP_I2C_STAT_AL);
> - break;
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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