Panda ES board hang when using GPIO as interrupt

Franky Lin frankyl at broadcom.com
Thu Jun 28 17:24:33 EDT 2012


On 06/28/2012 08:42 AM, Jon Hunter wrote:
>
> On 06/27/2012 07:41 PM, Franky Lin wrote:
>> 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. From reviewing the code the only thing that appears suspect based
> upon your findings is the return if we find the context has not been lost.
> We are not checking if "workaround_enabled" is set before we return.
>
> Could you try the following change on top of v3.5-rc3?
>

The patch doesn't help. And I also managed to probe the signal. It's 
active when it hung.

> Also, could you add a print in the runtime_suspend/resume() functions so
> we can see how often these are being called. In my case, I really don't see
> these being exercised and I am wondering how often you see suspend/resume
> being called in your setup.

Well, the runtime_suspend/resume never get called during the test.

Thanks,
Franky




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