Re: [PATCH] i2c: spacemit: fix spurious IRQ handling returning IRQ_HANDLED

["Troy Mitchell" <troy.mitchell@linux.spacemit.com>]

On Thu Jul 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM PDT, Pei Xiao wrote:
> When the interrupt status register reads zero (no interrupt pending
> from this device), the handler should return IRQ_NONE. Returning
> IRQ_HANDLED incorrectly claims the interrupt was serviced, which can
> prevent other devices sharing the same IRQ line from receiving their
> interrupts.
>
> Fix this by returning IRQ_NONE instead of IRQ_HANDLED when the
> status register is zero.
The change goes in the right direction, but the rationale in the
commit message doesn't hold, and I think the check itself can be
improved.

This driver requests its IRQ without IRQF_SHARED (see
spacemit_i2c_probe(), which passes only IRQF_NO_SUSPEND), so there
are no "other devices sharing the same IRQ line" to begin with.
Even on a genuinely shared line, the kernel invokes every handler
registered on the line regardless of what previous handlers return,
so IRQ_HANDLED cannot prevent other handlers from running.

What the return value actually feeds into is the spurious interrupt
accounting in note_interrupt(): falsely claiming IRQ_HANDLED defeats
the "irq XX: nobody cared" detection, so a stuck interrupt source
would never be caught. That applies to dedicated lines as well, and
is the real justification for this change.

Could you rework the check and the commit message and send a v2?

                                  - Troy