[PATCH] gpio/omap: fix invalid context restore of gpio bank-0

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Mon Jul 2 20:05:35 EDT 2012


NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> writes:

> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:26:38 -0500 Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On 07/02/2012 01:07 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > + Neil Brown
>> > 
>> > Hi Jon,
>> > 
>> > Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com> writes:
>> > 
>> >> Currently the gpio _runtime_resume/suspend functions are calling the
>> >> get_context_loss_count() platform function if the function is populated for
>> >> a gpio bank. This function is used to determine if the gpio bank logic state
>> >> needs to be restored due to a power transition. This function will be populated
>> >> for all banks, but it should only be called for banks that have the
>> >> "loses_context" variable set. It is pointless to call this if loses_context is
>> >> false as we know the context will never be lost and will not need restoring.
>> >>
>> >> For all OMAP2+ devices gpio bank-0 is in an always-on power domain and so will
>> >> never lose context. We found that the get_context_loss_count() was being called
>> >> for bank-0 during the probe and returning 1 instead of 0 indicating that the
>> >> context had been lost. This was causing the context restore function to be
>> >> called at probe time for this bank and because the context had never been saved,
>> >> was restoring an invalid state. This ultimately resulted in a crash [1].
>> >>
>> >> There are multiple bugs here that need to be addressed ...
>> >>
>> >> 1. Why the always-on power domain returns a context loss count of 1? This needs
>> >>    to be fixed in the power domain code. However, the gpio driver should not
>> >>    assume the loss count is 0 to begin with.
>> >> 2. The omap gpio driver should never be calling get_context_loss_count for a
>> >>    gpio bank in a always-on domain. This is pointless and adds unneccessary
>> >>    overhead.
>> >> 3. The OMAP gpio driver assumes that the initial power domain context loss count
>> >>    will be 0 at the time the gpio driver is probed. However, it could be
>> >>    possible that this is not the case and an invalid context restore could be
>> >>    performed during the probe. To avoid this otherwise only populated the
>> > 
>> > The 'To avoid this...' sentence here doesn't read well.  Looks like you
>> > need to:
>> > 
>> > s/otherwise//
>> 
>> Yes, I meant to have dropped "otherwise" here. Thanks!
>> 
>> > s/populated/populate/
>> 
>> Yes that too! I must have re-worded and screwed it up royally :-(
>> 
>> > ?
>> > 
>> >>    get_context_loss_count() function pointer after the initial call to
>> >>    pm_runtime_get() has occurred. This will ensure that the first
>> >>    pm_runtime_put() initialised the loss count correctly.
>> >>
>> >> This patch addresses issues 2 and 3 above.
>> >> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=134065775323775&w=2
>> >>
>> >> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
>> >> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at stericsson.com>
>> >> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>
>> >> Cc: Tarun Kanti DebBarma <tarun.kanti at ti.com>
>> >> Cc: Franky Lin <frankyl at broadcom.com>
>> >>
>> >> Reported-by: Franky Lin <frankyl at broadcom.com>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com>
>> > 
>> > Thanks for digging inot this bug Jon.  The same bug was brought up by
>> > Neil Brown (Cc'd) in a different thread.
>> > 
>> > Neil, it looks to me that this fix will address the problems you were
>> > seeing as well.  Care to test, and respond with your ack/tested-by if it
>> > works for you?  Thanks.
>> 
>> Neil let me know your thoughts and if you are ok, I can clean-up the
>> changelog and re-send.
>
> Yes, works for me and looks sensible.
>
>  Tested-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
>

Great!  Thanks for testing.

Jon, please make the minor changelog edits, collect the reviewed-by and
tested-by tags and repost.  I'll then queue this up for Grant.

Based on your earlier comments, this only affects v3.5, so no
need to push it into stable, correct?

Kevin



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