Re: [PATCH] i2c: qup: Add shutdown method

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This patch is designed to address a possible issue where an interrupt is fired but not yet handled by the i2c-qup driver and the kernel goes down as kexec prepares to start a secondary kernel. In this case it is possible the interrupt will be left unhandled.

This is not unique to the i2c-qup driver, similar patches have gone into other drivers such as the following for the arm-smmu-v3 driver.

commit 7aa8619a66aea52b145e04cbab4f8d6a4e5f3f3b
Author: Nate Watterson <nwatters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Jun 29 18:18:15 2017 -0400

    iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Implement shutdown method

    The shutdown method disables the SMMU to avoid corrupting a new kernel
    started with kexec.

    Signed-off-by: Nate Watterson <nwatters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>



On 2/2/2018 4:36 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
On Tue 16 Jan 13:35 PST 2018, Austin Christ wrote:

This shutdown method disables I2C to avoid corrupting a new kernel
started with kexec.


Can you elaborate on the issue you're seeing here? In what way is the
i2c-qup driver special, will there be similar patches for all other
drivers in the system?

Regards,
Bjorn


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