Re: [PATCH] serial: sc16is7xx: fix missing requested irq type setting

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Hi Jakub,

On 10.10.2015 16:02, Jakub Kiciński wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 22:12:20 +0100, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> On 03.10.2015 19:23, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:57:57 +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>>>> Hardcode IC irq type to IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING for both platform and OF
>>>> cases. According to the datasheet IC irq line is active low, reflect
>>>> this fact in the driver.
>>>>
>>>> If sc16is7xx device is described in devicetree, the change fixes
>>>> the following problem and makes the driver working correctly:
>>>>
>>>>     root@devkit3250:~# stty -F /dev/ttySC1 115200
>>>>     INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
>>>>     	0: (2100 ticks this GP) idle=a79/140000000000002/0 softirq=1759/1759 fqs=0
>>>>     	 (t=2100 jiffies g=910 c=909 q=2)
>>>>     rcu_preempt kthread starved for 2100 jiffies! g910 c909 f0x0 s3 ->state=0x1
>>>>     Task dump for CPU 0:
>>>>     stty            R running      0   698    696 0x00000002
>>>>     ......
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> NAK
>>>
>>> I'm with Alexander on this one.  Did you honestly configure the device
>>> in a wrong way by mistake or is it a hypothetical problem?
>>
>> this is an actually met problem, but I do admit that it might be a
>> misconfiguration on my side, problem in the discussed driver or an
>> indicator of another IRQ chip platform problem, I know at least one
>> critical issue within the current implementation of IRQ controller
>> driver on LPC32xx. To give you more evidence I have to retest sc16is7xx
>> driver, and unfortunately I don't have access to the hardware for one week.

the problem was on my side, the change in the driver is not needed.

> OK, my thougth was that maybe we should improve the documentation
> somehow.  Although, I'm not sure where to put it, the binding file
> is probably not right for the IRQ information.
> 
>> Meanwhile I would be glad to get answers to two questions regarding
>> sc16is7xx / irq type:
>>
>> 1) how is it intended to specify proper IRQ type in the driver, if
>> interrupt controller's #interrupt-cells property has only one cell?
> 
> Do you mean the controller does not provide a way to specify the
> triggering edge etc.?

Yes.

>> 2) if you stay for flexibility, why does sc16is7xx realization in
>> platform device description case hardcode IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING?
> 
> AFAIR it's the default.  I did not write that code, though.
> 

Well, according to the code this is an only option.

--
With best wishes,
Vladimir
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