From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Alok Chauhan <alokc@codeaurora.org>,
skakit@codeaurora.org, Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Dilip Kota <dkota@codeaurora.org>,
Girish Mahadevan <girishm@codeaurora.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-spi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Mo' betta locking
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:52:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <159250274581.62212.7220017192299709142@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618080459.v4.2.I752ebdcfd5e8bf0de06d66e767b8974932b3620e@changeid>
Quoting Douglas Anderson (2020-06-18 08:06:23)
> If you added a bit of a delay (like a trace_printk) into the ISR for
> the spi-geni-qcom driver, you would suddenly start seeing some errors
> spit out. The problem was that, though the ISR itself held a lock,
> other parts of the driver didn't always grab the lock.
>
> One example race was this:
> CPU0 CPU1
> ---- ----
> spi_geni_set_cs()
> mas->cur_mcmd = CMD_CS;
> geni_se_setup_m_cmd(...)
> wait_for_completion_timeout(&xfer_done);
> <INTERRUPT>
> geni_spi_isr()
> complete(&xfer_done);
> <wakeup>
> pm_runtime_put(mas->dev);
> ... // back to SPI core
> spi_geni_transfer_one()
> setup_fifo_xfer()
> mas->cur_mcmd = CMD_XFER;
> mas->cur_cmd = CMD_NONE; // bad!
> return IRQ_HANDLED;
>
> Let's fix this. Before we start messing with hardware, we'll grab the
> lock to make sure that the IRQ handler from some previous command has
> really finished. We don't need to hold the lock unless we're in a
> state where more interrupts can come in, but we at least need to make
> sure the previous IRQ is done. This lock is used exclusively to
> prevent the IRQ handler and non-IRQ from stomping on each other. The
> SPI core handles all other mutual exclusion.
>
> As part of this, we change the way that the IRQ handler detects
> spurious interrupts. Previously we checked for our state variable
> being set to IRQ_NONE, but that was done outside the spinlock. We
> could move it into the spinlock, but instead let's just change it to
> look for the lack of any IRQ status bits being set. This can be done
> outside the lock--the hardware certainly isn't grabbing or looking at
> the spinlock when it updates its status register.
>
> It's possible that this will fix real (but very rare) errors seen in
> the field that look like:
> irq ...: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>
> NOTE: an alternate strategy considered here was to always make the
> complete() / spi_finalize_current_transfer() the very last thing in
> our IRQ handler. With such a change you could consider that we could
> be "lockless". In that case, though, we'd have to be very careful w/
> memory barriers so we made sure we didn't have any bugs with weakly
> ordered memory. Using spinlocks makes the driver much easier to
> understand.
>
> Fixes: 561de45f72bd ("spi: spi-geni-qcom: Add SPI driver support for GENI based QUP")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-18 15:06 [PATCH v4 0/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Fixes / perf improvements Douglas Anderson
2020-06-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: No need for irqsave variant of spinlock calls Douglas Anderson
2020-06-18 15:15 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Mo' betta locking Douglas Anderson
2020-06-18 17:52 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2020-06-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Check for error IRQs Douglas Anderson
2020-06-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Actually use our FIFO Douglas Anderson
2020-06-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Don't keep a local state variable Douglas Anderson
2020-06-18 17:53 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-18 18:05 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-18 20:09 ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-18 21:52 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-18 22:00 ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-18 23:37 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-19 0:34 ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-18 23:39 ` [PATCH 6/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Simplify setup_fifo_xfer() Stephen Boyd
2020-06-19 0:40 ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-20 2:16 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-19 9:54 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-18 23:39 ` [PATCH 7/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Don't set {tx,rx}_rem_bytes unnecessarily Stephen Boyd
2020-06-19 0:40 ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-19 15:24 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-19 13:28 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Fixes / perf improvements Mark Brown
2020-06-22 14:59 ` Mark Brown
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