Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] i2c: xiic: Add features, bug fixes.

[Marek Vasut]

On 7/20/21 4:19 PM, Raviteja Narayanam wrote:

Hi,

[...]

> > > I have tested this again on our boards with eeprom and other sensors, this
> > is working fine for us.
> >
> > Can you share details of how those tests were performed ?
>
> Stress test - 1:
> Heavy ethernet traffic running in the background.
> I2c commands script (like below) running. We can see visible stutter in the output as expected, but nothing failed.
>
> i=0
> while [ 1 ]
> do
> 		i2ctransfer -y -f 2 w1@0X54 0X00 r31@0X54
> 		i2ctransfer -y -f 2 w1@0X54 0X00 r32@0X54
> 		i2ctransfer -y -f 2 w1@0X54 0X00 r255@0X54
> 		i2ctransfer -y -f 2 w1@0X54 0X00 r273@0X54
>                               i2ctransfer -y -f 2 w1@0X54 0X00 r1@0X54

Could it be that you never see the problem because you always talk to 
one single device ?

Do you also test writes which are not 1 byte long ?

>          i=$(expr $i + 1)
>          echo "$i"
> done
>
> Stress test - 2:
> Two i2c scripts running in parallel with commands as shown above with different bus numbers (as a result of mux), but going into same XIIC adapter.
> This is also working fine.

Could it be the i2c-dev serializes each of those transfers , so no race 
can be triggered ?

> Stress test - 3:
> Two i2c scripts running in parallel with same commands in separate terminals. This is also working fine.
>
>  From your log, the race condition is occurring at boot time during i2c clients registration. I am starting a similar test at my setup
> to reproduce this issue at boot time.

Thank you