Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] pinctrl: qcom: No need to read-modify-write the interrupt status

[Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>]

Quoting Douglas Anderson (2021-01-08 09:35:14)
> When the Qualcomm pinctrl driver wants to Ack an interrupt, it does a
> read-modify-write on the interrupt status register.  On some SoCs it
> makes sure that the status bit is 1 to "Ack" and on others it makes
> sure that the bit is 0 to "Ack".  Presumably the first type of
> interrupt controller is a "write 1 to clear" type register and the
> second just let you directly set the interrupt status register.
> 
> As far as I can tell from scanning structure definitions, the
> interrupt status bit is always in a register by itself.  Thus with
> both types of interrupt controllers it is safe to "Ack" interrupts
> without doing a read-modify-write.  We can do a simple write.
> 
> It should be noted that if the interrupt status bit _was_ ever in a
> register with other things (like maybe status bits for other GPIOs):
> a) For "write 1 clear" type controllers then read-modify-write would
>    be totally wrong because we'd accidentally end up clearing
>    interrupts we weren't looking at.
> b) For "direct set" type controllers then read-modify-write would also
>    be wrong because someone setting one of the other bits in the
>    register might accidentally clear (or set) our interrupt.
> I say this simply to show that the current read-modify-write doesn't
> provide any sort of "future proofing" of the code.  In fact (for
> "write 1 clear" controllers) the new code is slightly more "future
> proof" since it would allow more than one interrupt status bits to
> share a register.
> 
> NOTE: this code fixes no bugs--it simply avoids an extra register
> read.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>