Hi Mika, In current driver implementation, I2c controller is enabled, then disabled every time inside i2c_dw_xfer. So I think the interrupt masking should be done inside i2c_dw_xfer_init, where the controller is enabled. i2c_dw_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msgs[], int num) { ... /* start the transfers */ i2c_dw_xfer_init(dev); ... /* * We must disable the adapter before unlocking the &dev->lock mutex * below. Otherwise the hardware might continue generating interrupts * which in turn causes a race condition with the following transfer. * Needs some more investigation if the additional interrupts are * a hardware bug or this driver doesn't handle them correctly yet. */ __i2c_dw_enable(dev, false); ... } Thanks, Wenkai -----Original Message----- From: Westerberg, Mika Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 11:16 AM To: Du, Wenkai Cc: linux-i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wolfram Sang; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c-designware: Mask interrupts during i2c controller enable On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:05:23PM +0300, Du, Wenkai wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-core.c > b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-core.c > index 14c4b30..71a3fa9 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-core.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-core.c > @@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ static void i2c_dw_xfer_init(struct dw_i2c_dev *dev) > */ > dw_writel(dev, msgs[dev->msg_write_idx].addr | ic_tar, DW_IC_TAR); > > + /* disable interrupts */ > + i2c_dw_disable_int(dev); > + Please move this to i2c_dw_init() as I previously commented. This can only happen once the controller comes out of reset (either boot, or resume from system sleep). > /* Enable the adapter */ > __i2c_dw_enable(dev, true); > > -- > 1.7.9.5 -- 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