Panda ES board hang when using GPIO as interrupt

Franky Lin frankyl at broadcom.com
Wed Jun 27 20:41:56 EDT 2012


On 06/26/2012 08:37 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> "Franky Lin" <frankyl at broadcom.com> writes:
>> I noticed Kevin raised some similar cases on other platforms and also
>> provided two patches in the patch mail thread. But unfortunately those
>> two patches doesn't help in our case. I tested the driver with 3.5-rc3
>> mainline kernel and the issue is still there. I can only "fix" the
>> hang by either reverting the commit or disabling
>> CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME. Also, the hang only happens on Panda ES board. Old
>> Panda with 4430 works good.
>>
>> Any thoughts and suggestions?
>
> If reverting the patch fixes your problem, can you isolate down to which
> part of that patch causes the problem?  IOW, can you fix your problem if
> you undo just the hunk added in runtime_suspend or undo just the moved
> hunk runtime_resume?  Or is reverting both required?
>
> I suspect the added runtime_suspend hunk is causing the problems, so can
> you see if just undoing that part works[1].  If that works, I will give
> a bit more of a thinking on it tomorrow.

runtime_suspend hunk is fine. The hang still exist after reverting it. 
The culprit is the moved hunk in runtime_resume. Reverting it makes the 
hang disappear.

>
> Thanks for reporting the problem!   Bug reports like this that have
> clearly been thoroughly researched and bisected are greatly appreciated!
>
> Kevin
>

You are welcome.

Regards,
Franky




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