Re: [PATCH 1/4] regmap: irq: Fix lost interrupts by introducing handle_reread

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:41:22AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [170321 02:24]:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 08:33:42AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > * Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [170320 08:15]:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:36:30PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > That sounds a lot like a level triggered IRQ. If they are
> > repeatedly reading the GPIO line until it returns to high to know
> > they need to process more IRQs, that implies the line is staying
> > low whilst IRQs need handling which is level triggered.
> 
> Yeah.. Actually my description above is a bit wrong sorry. It seems
> the GPIO line changes status too early in some cases meaning the
> interrupts stop. So it's like a buggy implementation of level IRQ
> that stops driving the GPIO interrupt line to the SoC in some cases
> even with PMIC interrupts pending. So it seems like a bug in the
> CPCAP PMIC.
> 
> So the handling needs to be "read while CPCAP interrupts in the
> registers even if the GPIO line to SoC has cleared stopped
> signaling interrupts" :)
> 

Ah ok thanks for taking the time to explain that. Yeah that
sounds like the PMIC hardware is a bit buggy so you will
presumably need something to support this.

Thanks,
Charles
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