When the system is under heavy load, there can be a significant delay between the getscl() and time_after() calls inside sclhi(). That delay may cause the time_after() check to trigger after SCL has gone high, causing sclhi() to return -ETIMEDOUT. To fix the problem, double check that SCL is still low after the timeout has been reached, before deciding to return -ETIMEDOUT. Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@xxxxxx> --- I can easily reproduce these spurious timeouts on my HP-compaq nc6000 laptop with the radeon kms driver. It's enough to have a -j2 kernel build running, and simultaneosly issue xrandr commands in a terminal. Calling xrandr will cause the driver to re-read the EDID from the display. A significant number of the EDID reads will fail. With this fix I have yet to see any failed EDID reads. drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c index 525c734..d25112e 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c @@ -104,9 +104,11 @@ static int sclhi(struct i2c_algo_bit_data *adap) * are processing data internally. */ if (time_after(jiffies, start + adap->timeout)) - return -ETIMEDOUT; + break; cond_resched(); } + if (!getscl(adap)) + return -ETIMEDOUT; #ifdef DEBUG if (jiffies != start && i2c_debug >= 3) pr_debug("i2c-algo-bit: needed %ld jiffies for SCL to go " -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html