Re: BUG: support for at24 multi-slave-address eeproms is broken.

[Sakari Ailus]

Hi Sven,

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:03:23PM -0500, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Summary
> -------
> Some at24 eeproms have multiple i2c slave addresses. A patch introduced
> between 4.14-rc5 and 4.14-rc6 breaks support for these eeproms:
> reads/writes which start outside the first slave no longer work.
> 
> 98e8201039afad5d2af87df9ac682f62f69c0c2f
> (eeprom: at24: enable runtime pm support)
> 
> How to reproduce
> ----------------
> - I'm using the latest mainline at24 driver (4.15-rc1)
> - I have a 24AA16/24LC16B on board, which is a 2048-byte eeprom,
> 	made up of 8x 256-byte internal eeproms, all with their own i2c slave
> 	address. Base i2c address is 0x50, so this results in the following
> 	slave addresses: 0x50, 0x51, 0x52, 0x53, 0x54, 0x55, 0x56, 0x57 of
> 	256 bytes each.

Thank you for reporting this.

> 
> $ ls -l /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0050/eeprom
> -rw-------    1 root     root          2048 Nov 30 13:16 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0050/eeprom
> 
> Reading from the beginning to the end in one go works just fine:
> $ hexdump -C /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0050/eeprom 
> 00000000  f8 6e cf 01 ff 01 00 00  03 00 58 41 18 00 00 00  |.n........XA....|
> 00000010  53 61 74 20 4d 61 72 20  31 32 20 31 32 3a 35 35  |Sat Mar 12 12:55|
> 00000020  3a 31 32 20 32 30 31 36  01 00 58 41 0f 00 00 00  |:12 2016..XA....|
> 00000030  41 58 4d 2d 55 50 33 32  39 32 2d 30 38 32 34 00  |AXM-UP3292-0824.|
> 00000040  02 00 58 41 0d 00 00 00  41 58 53 2d 55 50 33 4b  |..XA....AXS-UP3K|
> 00000050  2d 30 32 30 34 00 00 00  04 00 58 41 09 00 00 00  |-0204.....XA....|
> 00000060  55 4e 54 31 34 30 30 42  34 00 00 00 0a 00 58 41  |UNT1400B4.....XA|
> 00000070  01 00 00 00 32 00 00 00  09 00 58 41 01 00 00 00  |....2.....XA....|
> 00000080  31 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  32 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  |1.......2.......|
> 00000090  32 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |2...............|
> 000000a0  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
> *
> 00000800
> 
> Reading from somewhere in the middle (outside of first slave) gives
> EACCESS:
> $ dd if=/sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0050/eeprom bs=1 skip=520 count=20
> dd: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0050/eeprom: Permission denied
> 
> Reading from somewhere in the middle (INSIDE of first slave) still works:
> $ dd if=/sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0050/eeprom bs=1 skip=20 count=20 | hexdump -C
> 00000000  4d 61 72 20 31 32 20 31  32 3a 35 35 3a 31 32 20  |Mar 12 12:55:12 |
> 00000010  32 30 31 36                                       |2016|
> 00000014
> 
> Additional questions for the patch authors
> ------------------------------------------
> 1. why is there a need to add pm_runtime support to a series of chips
> (at24) which do not have any power management registers, hardware or
> support ?

Power management is not a property of the chip itself, it's external to it.

The motivation for the patch was that the chip is powered together with
other chips in a camera module. If it is not powered off, all other devices
in the module will remain powered. This is undesirable.

> 
> 2. why is the at24's pm_runtime support operating on its parent i2c bus?
> Why can't the parent i2c bus driver be in charge of its own runtime pm?

This is device specific, the I²C bus driver doesn't know about it.

I have a patch that should address the problem, let me know if it works for
you.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx