Re: [PATCH v5 02/18] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Log more information if SCU IPC command fails

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Wed Feb 12 2020 - 06:36:56 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:41:38PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 04:25:47PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > Currently we only log an error if the command times out which makes it
> > hard to figure out the failing command. This changes the driver to log
> > command and subcommand with the error code which should make debugging
> > easier. This also allows us to simplify the callers as they don't need
> > to log these errors themselves.
> >
>
> Thanks, my comments below.
>
> ...
>
> > scu = ipcdev;
> > - ipc_command(scu, sub << 12 | cmd);
> > + cmdval = sub << 12 | cmd;
> > + ipc_command(scu, cmdval);
> > err = intel_scu_ipc_check_status(scu);
>
> > + if (err)
> > + dev_err(&scu->dev, "IPC command %#x failed with %d\n", cmdval,
> > + err);
>
> We may move it out of the mutex, right? Also, please keep it one line.

Yup.

> > mutex_unlock(&ipclock);
> > return err;
>
> ...
>
> > mutex_lock(&ipclock);
>
> > + cmdval = (inlen << 16) | (sub << 12) | cmd;
> > + ipc_command(scu, cmdval);
> > err = intel_scu_ipc_check_status(scu);
> > -
> > - if (!err) {
> > + if (err) {
> > + dev_err(&scu->dev, "IPC command %#x failed with %d\n", cmdval,
> > + err);
> > + } else {
> > for (i = 0; i < outlen; i++)
> > *out++ = ipc_data_readl(scu, 4 * i);
> > }
>
> It's not visible in this context but it looks like above applies here as well.

You mean move outside of the lock? This one calls ipc_data_readl()
which should be under the lock.