Re: [PATCH v7 3/5] misc: fuse: Add efuse driver for Tegra

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 06/11/2014 10:19 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 05:58:28PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 06/11/2014 09:25 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 02:47:31PM +0200, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
>>>> On 05/06/14 16:09, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> +int tegra_fuse_readl(u32 offset, u32 *val)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +       if (!fuse_readl)
>>>>> +               return -ENXIO;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +       *val = fuse_readl(offset);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +       return 0;
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> -EPROBE_DEFER would be a better error value, so that drivers can work 
>>>
>>> Ok.
>>>
>>>> even if they are initially probed before the fuse driver. Of course, if 
>>>> the fuse initialization is moved into machine init then this is a non-issue.
>>>
>>> The exported function will always be initialized later because on Tegra20 it
>>> requires APB DMA to be available. If you read the fuses directly, the system
>>> sometimes hangs.
>>
>> That's not true in the current code. IIRC, the bug was that *if* an APB
>> DMA access to anything and a CPU access to the fuses happen at the same
>> time, then there can be a hang. As such, the current fuse code accesses
>> the fuses directly (without potential for a hang) if the APB DMA driver
>> is not available, but once the driver becomes available, it reads the
>> fuses through DMA instead. Does the new code not do that?
>>
> 
> I'm not so sure about that. I have seen the hang when dumping all fuses using
> sysfs in an otherwise idle system booted from initrd. I don't think there
> should be any APB DMA activity going on then?

Hmm. Perhaps I'm misremembering the trigger for the bug then. Still, the
existing code works as I described. Perhaps that's dangerous and it
shouldn't though. Either way, I think we should have a standalone commit
that removes tegra_apb_readl_using_dma()'s fallback to
tegra_apb_readl_direct(), so any behaviour change that causes a problem
can be bisected easily.