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

[Brian Norris]

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:36:24AM +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> On 05/08/2018 06:15 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On the other hand...this also implies there may be a race condition
> > there, where we might lose an interrupt if there is an edge between the
> > re-configuration of the polarity in rockchip_irq_demux() and the
> > clearing/handling of the interrupt (handle_edge_irq() ->
> > chip->irq_ack()). If we have an edge between there, then we might ack
> > it, but leave the polarity such that we aren't ready for the next
> > (inverted) edge.
> 
> if let me guess, the unexpected irq we saw is the hardware trying to avoid
> losing irq? for example, we set a EDGE_RISING, and the hardware saw the gpio
> is already high, then though it might lost an irq, so fake one for safe?

I won't pretend to know what the IC designers were doing, but I don't
think that would resolve the problem I'm talking about. The sequence is
something like:
1. EDGE_BOTH IRQ occurs (e.g., low to high)
2. reconfigure polarity in rockchip_irq_demux() (polarity=low)
3. continue to handle_edge_irq()
4. another HW edge occurs (e.g., high to low)
5. handle_edge_irq() (from 3) acks (clears) IRQ (before a subsequent
   rockchip_irq_demux() gets a chance to run and flip the polarity)
...

Now the polarity is still low, but the next trigger should be a
low-to-high edge.

> i'll try to confirm it with IC guys.

Brian