Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] serial: sh-sci: Respect deferred probe when getting IRQ

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Günter,

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:58 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/7/21 3:17 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > With platform_get_irq() and its optional variant it's possible to get
> > a deferred probe error code. Since the commit ed7027fdf4ec ("driver core:
> > platform: Make platform_get_irq_optional() optional") the error code
> > can be distinguished from no IRQ case. With this, rewrite IRQ resource
> > handling in sh-sci driver to follow above and allow to respect deferred
> > probe.
> >
> > Fixes: ed7027fdf4ec ("driver core: platform: Make platform_get_irq_optional() optional")
> > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch alone causes a hard hang early during boot. It works if applied
> together with ed7027fdf4ec. Ultimately that means that ed7027fdf4ec introduces
> a functional change, and will need to be applied very carefully. A cursory
> glance through callers of platform_get_irq_optional() shows that many
> do not handle this correctly: various drivers handle a return value of 0
> as valid interrupt, and others treat errors other than -ENXIO as fatal.
>
> Also, each patch on its own causes failures on sh, which is problematic
> when applying them even as series. See below for an idea how to
> address that.
>
> > ---
> > v2: fixed a typo: i -> 0
> >  drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> > index ad2c189e8fc8..574f68ba50ff 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> > @@ -2899,13 +2899,6 @@ static int sci_init_single(struct platform_device *dev,
> >       port->mapbase = res->start;
> >       sci_port->reg_size = resource_size(res);
> >
> > -     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sci_port->irqs); ++i) {
> > -             if (i)
> > -                     sci_port->irqs[i] = platform_get_irq_optional(dev, i);
> > -             else
> > -                     sci_port->irqs[i] = platform_get_irq(dev, i);
> > -     }
> > -
> >       /* The SCI generates several interrupts. They can be muxed together or
> >        * connected to different interrupt lines. In the muxed case only one
> >        * interrupt resource is specified as there is only one interrupt ID.
> > @@ -2913,12 +2906,17 @@ static int sci_init_single(struct platform_device *dev,
> >        * from the SCI, however those signals might have their own individual
> >        * interrupt ID numbers, or muxed together with another interrupt.
> >        */
> > +     sci_port->irqs[0] = platform_get_irq(dev, 0);
> >       if (sci_port->irqs[0] < 0)
> > -             return -ENXIO;
> > +             return sci_port->irqs[0];
> >
> > -     if (sci_port->irqs[1] < 0)
> > -             for (i = 1; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sci_port->irqs); i++)
> > +     for (i = 1; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sci_port->irqs); ++i) {
> > +             sci_port->irqs[i] = platform_get_irq_optional(dev, i);
> > +             if (sci_port->irqs[i] < 0)
> > +                     return sci_port->irqs[i];
> > +             if (sci_port->irqs[i] == 0)
> >                       sci_port->irqs[i] = sci_port->irqs[0];
>
> Since sh never gets -EPROBE_DEFER, the following code can be applied
> on its own and does not depend on ed7027fdf4ec.

Note that the sh-sci driver is also used on ARM32/64 and H8/300.
On ARM, I don't expect GIC interrupts causing -EPROBE_DEFER, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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