Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] i2c: tegra: Better handle case where CPU0 is busy for a long time

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 10:21:36 EST


27.04.2020 14:00, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:52:10PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 27.04.2020 10:48, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> ...
>>>> Maybe but all these other problems appear to have existed for sometime
>>>> now. We need to fix all, but for the moment we need to figure out what's
>>>> best for v5.7.
>>>
>>> To me it doesn't sound like we have a good handle on what exactly is
>>> going on here and we're mostly just poking around.
>>>
>>> And even if things weren't working quite properly before, it sounds to
>>> me like this patch actually made things worse.
>>
>> There is a plenty of time to work on the proper fix now. To me it sounds
>> like you're giving up on fixing the root of the problem, sorry.
>
> We're at -rc3 now and I haven't seen any promising progress in the last
> week. All the while suspend/resume is now broken on at least one board
> and that may end up hiding any other issues that could creep in in the
> meantime.
>
> Furthermore we seem to have a preexisting issue that may very well
> interfere with this patch, so I think the cautious thing is to revert
> for now and then fix the original issue first. We can always come back
> to this once everything is back to normal.
>
> Also, people are now looking at backporting this to v5.6. Unless we
> revert this from v5.7 it may get picked up for backports to other
> kernels and then I have to notify stable kernel maintainers that they
> shouldn't and they have to back things out again. That's going to cause
> a lot of wasted time for a lot of people.
>
> So, sorry, I disagree. I don't think we have "plenty of time".

There is about a month now before the 5.7 release. It's a bit too early
to start the panic, IMO :)

Jon already proposed a reasonable simple solution: to keep PCIe
regulators always-ON. In a longer run we may want to have I2C atomic
transfers supported for a late suspend phase.

This should fix yours problem and it should go into stable kernels:

--- >8 ---
diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c
b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c
index 3e64ba6a36a8..6ac76323ca70 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c
@@ -1533,8 +1533,16 @@ static int tegra_pcie_get_resources(struct
tegra_pcie *pcie)
goto phys_put;
}

+ err = regulator_bulk_enable(pcie->num_supplies, pcie->supplies);
+ if (err) {
+ dev_err(dev, "failed to enable regulators: %d\n", err);
+ goto irq_free;
+ }
+
return 0;

+irq_free:
+ free_irq(pcie->irq, pcie);
phys_put:
if (soc->program_uphy)
tegra_pcie_phys_put(pcie);
@@ -1545,6 +1553,12 @@ static int tegra_pcie_put_resources(struct
tegra_pcie *pcie)
{
const struct tegra_pcie_soc *soc = pcie->soc;

+ err = regulator_bulk_disable(pcie->num_supplies, pcie->supplies);
+ if (err) {
+ dev_err(pcie->dev, "failed to disable regulators: %d\n", err);
+ return err;
+ }
+
if (pcie->irq > 0)
free_irq(pcie->irq, pcie);
--- >8 ---