To make sure people can understand the lockless design of this driver
without the need to dive into git history, add a comment giving an
overview of the situation.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c
index 6410896f717b..3ce74edcd70c 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c
@@ -611,6 +611,15 @@ static bool rcar_i2c_slave_irq(struct rcar_i2c_priv *priv)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * This driver has a lock-free design because there are IP cores (at least
+ * R-Car Gen2) which have an inherent race condition in their hardware design.
+ * There, we need to clear RCAR_BUS_MASK_DATA bits as soon as possible after
+ * the interrupt was generated, otherwise an unwanted repeated message gets
+ * generated. It turned out that taking a spinlock at the beginning of the ISR
+ * was already causing repeated messages. Thus, this driver was converted to
+ * the now lockless behaviour. Please keep this in mind when hacking the driver.
+ */
static irqreturn_t rcar_i2c_irq(int irq, void *ptr)
{
struct rcar_i2c_priv *priv = ptr;
--
2.11.0
