Re: [PATCH resend v2] Input: goodix - Poll the 'buffer status' bit before reading data

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On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 13:19 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> From: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The Goodix panel triggers an interrupt on touch events. However, its
> registers will contain the valid values a short time after the
> interrupt, and not when it's raised. At that moment, the 'buffer
> status'
> bit is set.
> 
> Previously, if the 'buffer status' bit was not set when the registers
> were read, the data was discarded and no input event was emitted,
> causing "finger down" or "finger up" events to be missed sometimes.
> 
> This went unnoticed until v4.9, as the DesignWare I2C driver commonly
> used with this driver had enough latency for that bug to never
> trigger.

Link to the bug fix?

> Now, in the IRQ handler we will poll (with a timeout) the 'buffer
> status'
> bit and process the data of the panel as soon as this bit gets set.
> 
> Note that the Goodix panel will send a few spurious interrupts after
> the
> 'finger up' event, in which the 'buffer status' bit will never be
> set.
> 
> Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: russianneuromancer@xxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx: Change poll loop to use jiffies,
>                       add comment about typical poll time]
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c | 36
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> b/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> index 32d2762448aa..a2071c132a2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> @@ -195,18 +195,38 @@ static int goodix_get_cfg_len(u16 id)
>  
>  static int goodix_ts_read_input_report(struct goodix_ts_data *ts, u8
> *data)
>  {
> +	unsigned long timeout;
>  	int touch_num;
>  	int error;
>  
> -	error = goodix_i2c_read(ts->client, GOODIX_READ_COOR_ADDR,
> data,
> -				GOODIX_CONTACT_SIZE + 1);
> -	if (error) {
> -		dev_err(&ts->client->dev, "I2C transfer error:
> %d\n", error);
> -		return error;
> -	}
> +	/*
> +	 * The 'buffer status' bit, which indicates that the data is
> valid, is
> +	 * not set as soon as the interrupt is raised, but slightly
> after.
> +	 * This takes around 10 ms to happen, so we poll for 20 ms.
> +	 */
> +	timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(20);

around 16msec is the time between 2 frames on a 60Hz display. Is 20msec
what we want? Does this looping block below any other parts of the
kernel, or does it run in its own thread?

> +	do {
> +		error = goodix_i2c_read(ts->client,
> GOODIX_READ_COOR_ADDR,
> +					data, GOODIX_CONTACT_SIZE +
> 1);
> +		if (error) {
> +			dev_err(&ts->client->dev, "I2C transfer
> error: %d\n",
> +					error);
> +			return error;
> +		}
>  
> -	if (!(data[0] & 0x80))
> -		return -EAGAIN;
> +		if (data[0] & 0x80)
> +			break;
> +
> +		usleep_range(1000, 2000); /* Poll every 1 - 2 ms */
> +	} while (time_before(jiffies, timeout));
> +
> +	if (!(data[0] & 0x80)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * The Goodix panel will send spurious interrupts
> after a
> +		 * 'finger up' event, which will always cause a
> timeout.
> +		 */
> +		return 0;
> +	}
>  
>  	touch_num = data[0] & 0x0f;
>  	if (touch_num > ts->max_touch_num)
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