[PATCH v1 0/3] i2c: imx: prevent rescheduling in non-dma mode

Stefan Eichenberger
2024-07-15T15:18:27Z

While running tests on an i.MX8M Mini connected to a TI ADS1015 ADC, we
found that the ADC would stop responding to i2c requests because it
would timeout after the bus was idle for 25ms. This timeout could be
traced back to the rescheduling events in the i2c-imx driver. The
problem is that if the system is under heavy load, the schedule call and
the wait_event_timeout may be rescheduled too late to reach the 25ms
timeout. The same problem may occur with other SMBus devices. Therefore,
this patchset removes the scheduling calls for non-DMA mode by handling
the interrupt events directly in the ISR instead of scheduling a task to
handle the events.

This patch will introduce some bigger changes because the logic for
handling events in the ISR had to be rewritten. Therefore we have tested
the following combinations:
- i.MX8M Mini with dma
- i.MX8M Mini without dma
- i.MX8M Plus with dma
- i.MX8M Plus without dma
- i.MX7D with dma
- i.MX7D without dma
- i.MX7D atomic mode

Because we do not have any devices that use the SMBus block transfer
mode, we were not able to test it.

The ideas are based on the RFC:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240531142437.74831-1-eichest@gmail.com/
However, the handling of events in the ISR is new, because further
testing showed that it was not enough to simply remove the schedule
call.

Stefan Eichenberger (3):
i2c: imx: only poll for bus busy in multi master mode
i2c: imx: separate atomic, dma and non-dma use case
i2c: imx: prevent rescheduling in non dma mode

drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 353 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 303 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

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