[PATCH] rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: fix lost ACKUPD interrupt
Bryan Evenson
bevenson at melinkcorp.com
Tue May 6 05:22:07 PDT 2014
Boris,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris BREZILLON [mailto:boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 4:23 PM
> To: Bryan Evenson
> Cc: Andrew Victor; Nicolas Ferre; Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard; linux-arm-
> kernel at lists.infradead.org; Alessandro Zummo; rtc-
> linux at googlegroups.com; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Boris BREZILLON
> Subject: [PATCH] rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: fix lost ACKUPD interrupt
>
> If an alarm interrupt raises just after the CR register is written and before the
> ACKUPD is unmasked the ACKUPD bit might be cleaned up without waking
> up the waiting thread.
>
> Unmask the ACKUPD interrupt before writing the CR register so that the
> ACKUPD cannot be lost.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> Reported-by: Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>
> ---
> Hello Bryan,
>
> Could you try to apply this patch and tell me if it fixes your bug ?
>
I have a little more information for you. On my system hwclock is part of Busybox (version 1.20.2 of Busybox). On my build I do not have CONFIG_ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP enabled for Busybox, so it does not close the file descriptor to the RTC after it is done with it. Here is the relevant section in the Busybox code that is setting the RTC time: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/util-linux/hwclock.c?h=1_20_stable#n224. Per a suggestion from someone on the Busybox forum, I applied a patch which added a flock() with LOCK_EX on the file descriptor and I still had the same issue. Running two instances of the previously mentioned test scripts in the background, here are the two strace outputs from the point when one access hung:
Instance #1
----------
1256 execve("/sbin/hwclock", ["/sbin/hwclock", "-w", "-u"], [/* 13 vars */]) = 0
1256 brk(0) = 0x9c000
1256 uname({sys="Linux", node="at91sam9x5ek", ...}) = 0
1256 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1256 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
1256 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7053, ...}) = 0
1256 mmap2(NULL, 7053, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb6f47000
1256 close(3) = 0
1256 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
1256 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0(\0\1\0\0\0\354\225JJ4\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
1256 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1245200, ...}) = 0
1256 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6f46000
1256 mmap2(0x4a490000, 1284496, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4a490000
1256 mprotect(0x4a5bc000, 32768, PROT_NONE) = 0
1256 mmap2(0x4a5c4000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12c) = 0x4a5c4000
1256 mmap2(0x4a5c8000, 6544, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4a5c8000
1256 close(3) = 0
1256 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6f45000
1256 set_tls(0xb6f454c0, 0xb6f45b98, 0x4a487058, 0xb6f454c0, 0x4a487058) = 0
1256 mprotect(0x4a5c4000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
1256 mprotect(0x4a486000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
1256 munmap(0xb6f47000, 7053) = 0
1256 getuid32() = 0
1256 open("/dev/rtc", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
1256 gettimeofday({1399376901, 241610}, NULL) = 0
1256 brk(0) = 0x9c000
1256 brk(0xbd000) = 0xbd000
1256 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
1256 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
1256 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
1256 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
1256 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6f48000
1256 read(4, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 3519
1256 _llseek(4, -24, [3495], SEEK_CUR) = 0
1256 read(4, "\nEST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0\n", 4096) = 24
1256 close(4) = 0
1256 munmap(0xb6f48000, 4096) = 0
1256 flock(3, LOCK_EX) = 0
1256 ioctl(3, RTC_SET_TIME, {tm_sec=21, tm_min=48, tm_hour=11, tm_mday=6, tm_mon=4, tm_year=114, ...}) = 0
1256 flock(3, LOCK_UN) = 0
1256 exit_group(0) = ?
1256 +++ exited with 0 +++
----------
Instance #2
----------
1261 execve("/sbin/hwclock", ["/sbin/hwclock", "-w", "-u"], [/* 13 vars */]) = 0
1261 brk(0) = 0x9c000
1261 uname({sys="Linux", node="at91sam9x5ek", ...}) = 0
1261 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1261 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
1261 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7053, ...}) = 0
1261 mmap2(NULL, 7053, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb6f4b000
1261 close(3) = 0
1261 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
1261 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0(\0\1\0\0\0\354\225JJ4\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
1261 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1245200, ...}) = 0
1261 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6f4a000
1261 mmap2(0x4a490000, 1284496, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4a490000
1261 mprotect(0x4a5bc000, 32768, PROT_NONE) = 0
1261 mmap2(0x4a5c4000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x12c) = 0x4a5c4000
1261 mmap2(0x4a5c8000, 6544, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4a5c8000
1261 close(3) = 0
1261 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6f49000
1261 set_tls(0xb6f494c0, 0xb6f49b98, 0x4a487058, 0xb6f494c0, 0x4a487058) = 0
1261 mprotect(0x4a5c4000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0
1261 mprotect(0x4a486000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
1261 munmap(0xb6f4b000, 7053) = 0
1261 getuid32() = 0
1261 open("/dev/rtc", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
1261 gettimeofday({1399376901, 655559}, NULL) = 0
1261 brk(0) = 0x9c000
1261 brk(0xbd000) = 0xbd000
1261 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
1261 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
1261 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
1261 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
1261 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6f4c000
1261 read(4, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 3519
1261 _llseek(4, -24, [3495], SEEK_CUR) = 0
1261 read(4, "\nEST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0\n", 4096) = 24
1261 close(4) = 0
1261 munmap(0xb6f4c000, 4096) = 0
1261 flock(3, LOCK_EX) = 0
1261 ioctl(3, RTC_SET_TIME, {tm_sec=21, tm_min=48, tm_hour=11, tm_mday=6, tm_mon=4, tm_year=114, ...}
----------
For the second instance, I had to "cat" the file that is still open by the strace process that has not yet returned. If I open the strace output file with vi, the ioctl() call is not present. If I understand flock() correctly, I think we can assume one ioctl() completes before the other ioctl() begins. Is it possible there is something else going on in which the RTC is not yet ready for time to be set again? Or is it a problem with setting the RTC to the same time twice?
If there is a different kernel version you would like me to try, or if you would like my kernel binary for your testing, let me know.
Regards,
Bryan
> Best Regards,
>
> Boris
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c index
> 3281c90..c16c423 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c
> @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ static int at91_rtc_settime(struct device *dev, struct
> rtc_time *tm)
>
> /* Stop Time/Calendar from counting */
> cr = at91_rtc_read(AT91_RTC_CR);
> + at91_rtc_write_ier(AT91_RTC_ACKUPD);
> at91_rtc_write(AT91_RTC_CR, cr | AT91_RTC_UPDCAL |
> AT91_RTC_UPDTIM);
>
> - at91_rtc_write_ier(AT91_RTC_ACKUPD);
> wait_for_completion(&at91_rtc_updated); /* wait for ACKUPD
> interrupt */
> at91_rtc_write_idr(AT91_RTC_ACKUPD);
>
> --
> 1.8.3.2
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