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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Fix DMA transfer race
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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From:   Akash Asthana <akashast@codeaurora.org>
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Date:   Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:18:23 +0530
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On 7/21/2020 5:54 AM, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> When I have KASAN enabled on my kernel and I start stressing the
> touchscreen my system tends to hang.  The touchscreen is one of the
> only things that does a lot of big i2c transfers and ends up hitting
> the DMA paths in the geni i2c driver.  It appears that KASAN adds
> enough delay in my system to tickle a race condition in the DMA setup
> code.
>
> When the system hangs, I found that it was running the geni_i2c_irq()
> over and over again.  It had these:
>
> m_stat   = 0x04000080
> rx_st    = 0x30000011
> dm_tx_st = 0x00000000
> dm_rx_st = 0x00000000
> dma      = 0x00000001
>
> Notably we're in DMA mode but are getting M_RX_IRQ_EN and
> M_RX_FIFO_WATERMARK_EN over and over again.
>
> Putting some traces in geni_i2c_rx_one_msg() showed that when we
> failed we were getting to the start of geni_i2c_rx_one_msg() but were
> never executing geni_se_rx_dma_prep().
>
> I believe that the problem here is that we are writing the transfer
> length and setting up the geni command before we run
> geni_se_rx_dma_prep().  If a transfer makes it far enough before we do
> that then we get into the state I have observed.  Let's change the
> order, which seems to work fine.
>
> Fixes: 37692de5d523 ("i2c: i2c-qcom-geni: Add bus driver for the Qualcomm GENI I2C controller")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Akash Asthana <akashast@codeaurora.org>

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