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

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:46:46PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 29.04.2020 16:57, Jon Hunter ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > 
> > On 29/04/2020 13:35, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> >> 29.04.2020 11:55, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> >> ...
> >>>>> It's not "papering over an issue". The bug can't be fixed properly
> >>>>> without introducing I2C atomic transfers support for a late suspend
> >>>>> phase, I don't see any other solutions for now. Stable kernels do not
> >>>>> support atomic transfers at all, that proper solution won't be backportable.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hm... on a hunch I tried something and, lo and behold, it worked. I can
> >>>> get Cardhu to properly suspend/resume on top of v5.7-rc3 with the
> >>>> following sequence:
> >>>>
> >>>> 	revert 9f42de8d4ec2 i2c: tegra: Fix suspending in active runtime PM state
> >>>> 	apply http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-tegra/patch/20191213134417.222720-1-thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx/
> >>>>
> >>>> I also ran that through our test farm and I don't see any other issues.
> >>>> At the time I was already skeptical about pm_runtime_force_suspend() and
> >>>> pm_runtime_force_resume() and while I'm not fully certain why exactly it
> >>>> doesn't work, the above on top of v5.7-rc3 seems like a good option.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll try to do some digging if I can find out why exactly force suspend
> >>>> and resume doesn't work.
> >>>
> >>> Ah... so it looks like pm_runtime_force_resume() never actually does
> >>> anything in this case and then disable_depth remains at 1 and the first
> >>> tegra_i2c_xfer() will then fail to runtime resume the controller.
> >>
> >> That's the exactly expected behaviour of the RPM force suspend/resume.
> >> The only unexpected part for me is that the tegra_i2c_xfer() runtime
> >> resume then fails in the NOIRQ phase.
> > 
> > From reading the changelog for commit 1e2ef05bb8cf ("PM: Limit race
> > conditions between runtime PM and system sleep (v2))", this is the
> > expected behaviour for runtime resume in the noirq phase.
> 
> I'm curious whether there is a way to tell RPM that it's okay to do it
> for a particular device, like I2C that uses IRQ-safe RPM + doesn't have
> parent devices that need to be resumed.

Been there, done that:

	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-tegra/patch/20191128160314.2381249-2-thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx/

Thierry

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