[PATCH v02] mailbox: pcc: report errors for PCC clients
Adam Young
admiyo at amperemail.onmicrosoft.com
Fri Jun 5 10:19:25 PDT 2026
On 6/3/26 11:15, Adam Young wrote:
>
> On 5/19/26 09:23, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 03:30:06PM -0400, Adam Young wrote:
>>> The tx_done callback function has a return code (rc) parameter
>>> that the tx_done callback can use to determine how to handle an error.
>>> However the IRQ handler was not setting that value if there is an
>>> error.
>>>
>>> The following clients are affected:
>>>
>>> drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
>>> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xgene-slimpro.c
>>> drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c
>>> drivers/soc/hisilicon/kunpeng_hccs.c
>>> drivers/devfreq/hisi_uncore_freq.c
>>>
>>> All of these only use the error code to report, so they
>>> are expecting an error code to come thorugh, but they
>>> do not modify behavior based on this code.
>>>
>>> In the case of an error code in the IRQ, the handler was returning
>>> IRQ_NONE which is not correct: the IRQ handler was matched
>>> to the IRQ. This mean that multiple error codes returned from
>>> a PCC triggered interrupt would end up disabling the device.
>>>
>>> In addition, if the error code IRQ was coming from a Type4 Device
>>> that was
>>> expecting an IRQ response, that device would then be hung.
>>>
>>> Fixes: c45ded7e1135 ("mailbox: pcc: Add support for PCCT extended
>>> PCC subspaces(type 3/4)")
>>> Signed-off-by: Adam Young <admiyo at os.amperecomputing.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> ---
>>> drivers/mailbox/pcc.c | 9 +++++----
>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
>>> index 636879ae1db7..16b9ce087b9e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
>>> @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ static irqreturn_t pcc_mbox_irq(int irq, void *p)
>>> {
>>> struct pcc_chan_info *pchan;
>>> struct mbox_chan *chan = p;
>>> + int rc;
>>> pchan = chan->con_priv;
>>> @@ -327,8 +328,7 @@ static irqreturn_t pcc_mbox_irq(int irq, void *p)
>>> if (!pcc_mbox_cmd_complete_check(pchan))
>>> return IRQ_NONE;
>>> - if (pcc_mbox_error_check_and_clear(pchan))
>>> - return IRQ_NONE;
>>> + rc = pcc_mbox_error_check_and_clear(pchan);
>> I think we may have to skip the check inside
>> pcc_mbox_error_check_and_clear()
>> for Type 4 channel as the spec expects OSPM to ignore it. It is a
>> separate
>> fix, just noting that here.
>
> I think that should be in this patch, for correctness. It is a small
> enough change. I'll update.
>
Actually, it is a fix in its own right, and can be merged regardless of
this patch, so:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260604163306.160017-1-admiyo@os.amperecomputing.com/
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