Re: [v2] i2c: mediatek: Move suspend and resume handling to NOIRQ phase

[Grygorii Strashko]

On 07/12/2020 09:33, Qii Wang wrote:
> Hi:
> Thank you very much for your patience review.
> There are two main purposes of this patch:
> 1.i2c_mark_adapter_suspended&i2c_mark_adapter_resumed
> Avoid accessing the adapter while it is suspended by marking it
> suspended during suspend.  This allows the I2C core to catch this, and
> print a warning.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20181219164827.20985-2-wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> 2. IRQF_NO_SUSPEND.
> Having interrupts disabled means not only that an interrupt will not
> occur at an awkward time, but also that using any functionality that
> requires interrupts will not work. So if the driver uses an I2C bus or
> similar to tell the device to turn off, and if the I2C bus uses
> interrupts to indicate completion (which is normal), then either the
> device must be powered-off in suspend_late, so the I2C interrupt must be
> marked IRQF_NO_SUSPEND.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-acpi/patch/20180923135812.29574-8-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx/

Pls, do not top post.

> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 10:01 +0200, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> > On 03/12/2020 03:25, Qii Wang wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 16:35 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > > Some i2c device driver indirectly uses I2C driver when it is now
> > > > > being suspended. The i2c devices driver is suspended during the
> > > > > NOIRQ phase and this cannot be changed due to other dependencies.
> > > > > Therefore, we also need to move the suspend handling for the I2C
> > > > > controller driver to the NOIRQ phase as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Qii Wang <qii.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Is this a bugfix and should go into 5.10? Or can it wait for 5.11?
> > >
> > > Yes, Can you help to apply it into 5.10? Thanks
> >
> > To be honest if you still do have any i2c device which accessing i2c buss after _noirq
> > stage and your driver does not implement .master_xfer_atomic() - you definitely have a bigger problem.
> > So adding IRQF_NO_SUSPEND sound like a hack and probably works just by luck.
>
> At present, it is only a problem caused by missing interrupts,
> and .master_xfer_atomic() just a implement in polling mode. Why not set
> the interrupt to a state that can always be triggered?

Because you must not use any IRQ driven operations after _noirq suspend state as it might (and most probably will)
cause unpredictable behavior later  in suspend_enter():

	arch_suspend_disable_irqs();
	BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
^after this point any IRQ driven I2C transfer will cause IRQ to be re-enabled

if you need  turn off device from platform callbacks -  .master_xfer_atomic() has to be implemented and used.
 

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Best regards,
grygorii