Re: [PATCH] iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: irq not handled unless data pushed to buffers

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> On 07/11/2018 02:29 PM, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > > Currently IRQ_NONE is returned only when there is no data on the fifo.
> > > 
> > > When there is no data on the fifo the driver can not push to the
> > > buffers and therefore user space readers polling for data available
> > > will not be awoken and continue to wait.
> > > 
> > > This commit just extends the same semantics to fifo read errors.
> > Hi Jorge,
> > 
> > IRQ_NONE is used to indicate this interrupt is not intended for this driver
> > (this could happen if the irq line is in open-drain). If the interrupt is for
> > st_lsm6dsx I would prefer to return IRQ_HANDLED even in case of error.
> 
> yes I understand.
> 
> This was just a trivial attempt (I guess a really bad idea) to get some
> debug info (via /proc/irq/.../spurious) any time the driver read (spi/i2c)
> fails when processing the data ready irq.

No worries, but it is not a good idea to add that info in irq/spurious

> do you think it would make sense to add a dev_err to
> st_lsm6dsx_i2c_read/st_lsm6dsx_spi_read? at the moment the driver would fail
> silently

Could be usefull, afaiu you need to know if fifo read fails for any reason, correct?

> 
> thanks for coming back to me despite the bad patch

No worries :)

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Lorenzo
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jramirez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
> > > index 4994f92..4959923 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c
> > > @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ static irqreturn_t st_lsm6dsx_handler_thread(int irq, void *private)
> > >   	count = st_lsm6dsx_read_fifo(hw);
> > >   	mutex_unlock(&hw->fifo_lock);
> > > -	return !count ? IRQ_NONE : IRQ_HANDLED;
> > > +	return (!count || count < 0) ? IRQ_NONE : IRQ_HANDLED;
> > >   }
> > >   static int st_lsm6dsx_buffer_preenable(struct iio_dev *iio_dev)
> > > -- 
> > > 2.7.4
> > > 
> 
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