Am 13.05.2015 um 08:55 schrieb ext Uwe Kleine-König:
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:19:59AM +0200, Michael Lawnick wrote:
Am 12.05.2015 um 21:12 schrieb Wolfram Sang:
Doesn't look right. -EAGAIN means arbitration lost which is not a
condition to reset the bus in a multi-master setup.
IMHO in multi-master scenario bus recovery is never save. There is
need of higher level synchronization to find out whether any master
is active.
Right. But you might be lucky and it's ok when done on error conditions
like "sda is low since 300 ms". But on arbitration loss it's definitely
wrong. Consider two masters where one resets the bus while the other
does a transfer. That results in a arbitration loss for the latter. So
the latter resets the bus and in the meantime the first one does a transfer
now that the bus should be free. You see the loop?
Of course.
The question is: do/can controllers properly distinguish between
arbitration loss and permanent SDL low? I always worked with single
master assumption in last 10 years and /feel/ /to/ /remember/ to have
observed situations were bus lock was signaled as arbitration loss.
I'm simply in doubt that multi master can be handled at driver level at
all. This might mean in consequence that unlocking the bus should not be
done automatically, but by an extra I2C method triggered by application
level.
--
JM2C
Michael
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