RE: [PATCH] i2c: aspeed: Update the stop sw state when the bus recovry occurs

[Tommy Huang]

Hi Paul,

	Thanks for your comments.

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> From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2024 3:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: aspeed: Update the stop sw state when the bus
> recovry occurs
> 
> Dear Tommy,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your patch.
> 
> Am 30.05.24 um 09:06 schrieb Tommy Huang:
> > When the i2c bus recovey occurs, driver will send i2c stop command
> 
> recove*r*y

I will fix this spelling typo on next patch. Thanks.

> 
> > in the scl low condition. In this case the sw state will still keep
> > original situation. Under multi-master usage, i2c bus recovery will
> 
> What is the user visible problem?
> 

In the multi-master case, the i2c transfer timeout will execute the aspeed_i2c_recover_bus.
What we noticed when timeout appears, and kernel panic is observed:
-	xfer goes through aspeed_i2c_recovery_bus 
-	inside recovery we can see “SCL hung (state ec0b0000), attempting recovery”. 
-	STOP_CMD is performed but time_left = 0 what causes that aspeed_i2c_reset is called (and returns 0)
-	Going out of timeout handling, release memory, irq handler is invoked and rise interrupt causing that released memory is used.

> > be called when i2c transfer timeout occurs. Update the stop command
> > calling with aspeed_i2c_do_stop function to update master_state.
> 
> How can this be tested?

It just updates master_state for usage safety. The original stop command still be triggered.
> 
> > Fixes: f327c686d3ba ("i2c: aspeed: added driver for Aspeed I2C")
> >
> 
> The blank line can be removed.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Tommy Huang <tommy_huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c | 3 ++-
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> > b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c index ce8c4846b7fa..32f8b0c1c174
> > 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> > @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ struct aspeed_i2c_bus {
> >   };
> >
> >   static int aspeed_i2c_reset(struct aspeed_i2c_bus *bus);
> > +static void aspeed_i2c_do_stop(struct aspeed_i2c_bus *bus);
> >
> >   static int aspeed_i2c_recover_bus(struct aspeed_i2c_bus *bus)
> >   {
> > @@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ static int aspeed_i2c_recover_bus(struct
> aspeed_i2c_bus *bus)
> >   			command);
> >
> >   		reinit_completion(&bus->cmd_complete);
> > -		writel(ASPEED_I2CD_M_STOP_CMD, bus->base +
> ASPEED_I2C_CMD_REG);
> > +		aspeed_i2c_do_stop(bus);
> >   		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bus->lock, flags);
> >
> >   		time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul

BR,

Tommy