Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] irqchip: qcom-pdc: Fix phantom irq when changing between rising/falling

[Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:47 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have a problem if we use gpio-keys and configure wakeups such that
> we only want one edge to wake us up.  AKA:
>   wakeup-event-action = <EV_ACT_DEASSERTED>;
>   wakeup-source;
>
> Specifically we end up with a phantom interrupt that blocks suspend if
> the line was already high and we want wakeups on rising edges (AKA we
> want the GPIO to go low and then high again before we wake up).  The
> opposite is also problematic.
>
> Specifically, here's what's happening today:
> 1. Normally, gpio-keys configures to look for both edges.  Due to the
>    current workaround introduced in commit c3c0c2e18d94 ("pinctrl:
>    qcom: Handle broken/missing PDC dual edge IRQs on sc7180"), if the
>    line was high we'd configure for falling edges.
> 2. At suspend time, we change to look for rising edges.
> 3. After qcom_pdc_gic_set_type() runs, we get a phantom interrupt.
>
> We can solve this by just clearing the phantom interrupt.
>
> NOTE: it is possible that this could cause problems for a client with
> very specific needs, but there's not much we can do with this
> hardware.  As an example, let's say the interrupt signal is currently
> high and the client is looking for falling edges.  The client now
> changes to look for rising edges.  The client could possibly expect
> that if the line has a short pulse low (and back high) that it would
> always be detected.  Specifically no matter when the pulse happened,
> it should either have tripped the (old) falling edge trigger or the
> (new) rising edge trigger.  We will simply not trip it.  We could
> narrow down the race a bit by polling our parent before changing
> types, but no matter what we do there will still be a period of time
> where we can't tell the difference between a real transition (or more
> than one transition) and the phantom.
>
> Fixes: f55c73aef890 ("irqchip/pdc: Add PDC interrupt controller for QCOM SoCs")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

NOTE: even though this has Maulik's tags, he has requested [1] that we
should wait before landing while he talks with HW folks.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/603c691f-3614-d87b-075a-0889e9ffc453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/


-Doug