Hi Prabhakar,
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 7:19 PM Lad, Prabhakar
<prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Introduce a new `riic_bus_barrier()` function to verify bus availability
> > > before initiating an I2C transfer. This function enhances the bus
> > > arbitration check by ensuring that the SDA and SCL lines are not held low,
> > > in addition to checking the BBSY flag using `readb_poll_timeout()`.
> > >
> > > Previously, only the BBSY flag was checked to determine bus availability.
> > > However, it is possible for the SDA line to remain low even when BBSY = 0.
> > > This new implementation performs an additional check on the SDA and SCL
> > > lines to avoid potential bus contention issues.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-riic.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-riic.c
> >
> > > @@ -135,6 +138,27 @@ static inline void riic_clear_set_bit(struct riic_dev *riic, u8 clear, u8 set, u
> > > riic_writeb(riic, (riic_readb(riic, reg) & ~clear) | set, reg);
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static int riic_bus_barrier(struct riic_dev *riic)
> > > +{
> > > + int ret;
> > > + u8 val;
> > > +
> > > + /*
> > > + * The SDA line can still be low even when BBSY = 0. Therefore, after checking
> > > + * the BBSY flag, also verify that the SDA and SCL lines are not being held low.
> > > + */
> > > + ret = readb_poll_timeout(riic->base + riic->info->regs[RIIC_ICCR2], val,
> > > + !(val & ICCR2_BBSY), 10, riic->adapter.timeout);
> > > + if (ret)
> > > + return -EBUSY;
> > > +
> > > + if (!(riic_readb(riic, RIIC_ICCR1) & ICCR1_SDAI) ||
> > > + !(riic_readb(riic, RIIC_ICCR1) & ICCR1_SCLI))
> >
> > Surely you can read the register once, and check both bits?
> >
> Agreed, I will add a helper func for this something like below, as
> this can be re-used in patch 9/9
>
> static inline bool riic_lines_ok(struct riic_dev *riic)
> {
> u8 reg = riic_readb(riic, RIIC_ICCR1);
>
> if (!(reg & ICCR1_SDAI) || !(reg & ICCR1_SCLI))
> return false;
>
> return true;
> }
A helper might be overkill...
if ((riic_readb(riic, RIIC_ICCR1) & (ICCR1_SDAI | ICCR1_SCLI)) !=
ICCR1_SDAI | ICCR1_SCLI)
...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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