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Subject: Re: [PATCH i2c-next v6] i2c: aspeed: Handle master/slave combined irq
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From:   Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com>
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On 9/11/2018 4:33 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Looking into the patch, clearing the interrupt status at the end of an
> interrupt handler is always suspicious and tends to result in race
> conditions (because additional interrupts may have arrived while handling
> the existing interrupts, or because interrupt handling itself may trigger
> another interrupt). With that in mind, the following patch fixes the
> problem for me.
> 
> Guenter
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> index c258c4d9a4c0..c488e6950b7c 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c
> @@ -552,6 +552,8 @@ static irqreturn_t aspeed_i2c_bus_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
>   
>   	spin_lock(&bus->lock);
>   	irq_received = readl(bus->base + ASPEED_I2C_INTR_STS_REG);
> +	/* Ack all interrupt bits. */
> +	writel(irq_received, bus->base + ASPEED_I2C_INTR_STS_REG);
>   	irq_remaining = irq_received;
>   
>   #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_I2C_SLAVE)
> @@ -584,8 +586,6 @@ static irqreturn_t aspeed_i2c_bus_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
>   			"irq handled != irq. expected 0x%08x, but was 0x%08x\n",
>   			irq_received, irq_handled);
>   
> -	/* Ack all interrupt bits. */
> -	writel(irq_received, bus->base + ASPEED_I2C_INTR_STS_REG);
>   	spin_unlock(&bus->lock);
>   	return irq_remaining ? IRQ_NONE : IRQ_HANDLED;
>   }
> 

My intention of putting the code at the end of interrupt handler was,
to reduce possibility of combined irq calls which is explained in this
patch. But YES, I agree with you. It could make a potential race
condition as you pointed out. I tested your code change and checked that
it works well. Let me take more sufficient test on real H/W. Will share
the test result.

Thanks a lot!

Jae