The MV64XXX hardware can act as either a bus controller or target device. In order to protect target devices from a glitching bus (apparently), the core listens on the lines even when idle and moves the hardware FSM to the "BUS_ERR" state if an invalid transition is detected. The hardware then does not exit this state until reset. This feature is actually counterproductive when using the hardware as a controller (as this driver does): we do not actually *care* what happened on the bus previously, as long as it's ready for use when the new transfer starts. However, the controller will remember a previous glitch and trip up the driver after it attempts to send the start command. The driver logs and error and resets the controller, recovering from the BUS_ERR state, but not without erroring back the transfer with errno EAGAIN. Clients generally do not handle this gracefully. This is easily fixed by checking for the BUS_ERR condition upfront and issuing the hardware reset before beginning the transfer. This patch does NOT also call i2c_recover_bus(): the assumption is that the bus is fine, just the hardware is upset; if the bus is also in a bad state, this should not pass silently. Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c index fd8403b07fa6..cfc16909fba3 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c @@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ mv64xxx_i2c_xfer_core(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msgs[], int num) { struct mv64xxx_i2c_data *drv_data = i2c_get_adapdata(adap); int rc, ret = num; + u32 status; rc = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(&adap->dev); if (rc) @@ -762,6 +763,11 @@ mv64xxx_i2c_xfer_core(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg msgs[], int num) drv_data->msgs = msgs; drv_data->num_msgs = num; + /* Calm down the hardware if it was upset by a bus glitch while idle */ + status = readl(drv_data->reg_base + drv_data->reg_offsets.status); + if (status == MV64XXX_I2C_STATUS_BUS_ERR) + mv64xxx_i2c_hw_init(drv_data); + if (mv64xxx_i2c_can_offload(drv_data) && !drv_data->atomic) rc = mv64xxx_i2c_offload_xfer(drv_data); else -- 2.43.2