Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: cherryview: Serialize all register access

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:24:13PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > There is a hardware issue in Intel Braswell/Cherryview where concurrent
> > GPIO register access might results reads of 0xffffffff and writes might get
> > dropped.
> >
> > Prevent this from happening by taking the serializing lock for all places
> > where it is possible that more than one thread might be accessing the
> > hardware concurrently.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Patch applied.

Thanks!

> When we are on the topic of this spinlock, I noticed that you
> take it in some IRQ functions:
> 
> static void chv_gpio_irq_ack(struct irq_data *d)
> {
>         struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
>         struct chv_pinctrl *pctrl = gpiochip_to_pinctrl(gc);
>         int pin = chv_gpio_offset_to_pin(pctrl, irqd_to_hwirq(d));
>         u32 intr_line;
> 
>         spin_lock(&pctrl->lock);
> (...)
> 
> The Realtime tree have recently started to push raw spinlocks
> into GPIO drivers that handle IRQs. Can you look into this
> for the Intel drivers, I think maybe this needs to be a raw
> spinlock to play nicely with realtime.
> 
> Cf:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=143749603401220&w=2

Sure, I'll look into that.