Re: [PATCH] spi: fsl-espi: Only process interrupts for expected events

From: Nicholas Piggin
Date: Sun Sep 13 2020 - 22:28:45 EST


Excerpts from Chris Packham's message of September 14, 2020 8:03 am:
> Hi All,
>
> On 4/09/20 12:28 pm, Chris Packham wrote:
>> The SPIE register contains counts for the TX FIFO so any time the irq
>> handler was invoked we would attempt to process the RX/TX fifos. Use the
>> SPIM value to mask the events so that we only process interrupts that
>> were expected.
>>
>> This was a latent issue exposed by commit 3282a3da25bd ("powerpc/64:
>> Implement soft interrupt replay in C").
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
> ping?

I don't know the code/hardware but thanks for tracking this down.

Was there anything more to be done with Jocke's observations, or would
that be a follow-up patch if anything?

If this patch fixes your problem it should probably go in, unless there
are any objections.

Thanks,
Nick

>>
>> Notes:
>> I've tested this on a T2080RDB and a custom board using the T2081 SoC. With
>> this change I don't see any spurious instances of the "Transfer done but
>> SPIE_DON isn't set!" or "Transfer done but rx/tx fifo's aren't empty!" messages
>> and the updates to spi flash are successful.
>>
>> I think this should go into the stable trees that contain 3282a3da25bd but I
>> haven't added a Fixes: tag because I think 3282a3da25bd exposed the issue as
>> opposed to causing it.
>>
>> drivers/spi/spi-fsl-espi.c | 5 +++--
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-espi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-espi.c
>> index 7e7c92cafdbb..cb120b68c0e2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-espi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-espi.c
>> @@ -574,13 +574,14 @@ static void fsl_espi_cpu_irq(struct fsl_espi *espi, u32 events)
>> static irqreturn_t fsl_espi_irq(s32 irq, void *context_data)
>> {
>> struct fsl_espi *espi = context_data;
>> - u32 events;
>> + u32 events, mask;
>>
>> spin_lock(&espi->lock);
>>
>> /* Get interrupt events(tx/rx) */
>> events = fsl_espi_read_reg(espi, ESPI_SPIE);
>> - if (!events) {
>> + mask = fsl_espi_read_reg(espi, ESPI_SPIM);
>> + if (!(events & mask)) {
>> spin_unlock(&espi->lock);
>> return IRQ_NONE;
>> }