Re: [PATCH 1/4] spi: lantiq: Synchronize interrupt handlers and transfers

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On 4/24/2020 7:25 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 06:42:30PM +0800, Dilip Kota wrote:

Synchronize tx, rx and error interrupts by registering to the
same interrupt handler. Interrupt handler will recognize and process
the appropriate interrupt on the basis of interrupt status register.
Also, establish synchronization between the interrupt handler and
transfer operation by taking the locks and registering the interrupt
handler as thread IRQ which avoids the bottom half.
Fixes the wrongly populated interrupt register offsets too.
This sounds like at least three different changes mixed together in one
commit, it makes it quite hard to tell what's going on.  If nothing else
the conversion from a workqueue to threaded interrupts should probably
be split out from merging the interrupts.
While preparing the patches, i got puzzled to go with separate patches (for threaded interrupts, unified interrupt handler and fixing the register offset) or as a single patch!!. Finally i choose to go with single patch, because establishing synchronization is the major reason for this change, for that reason threaded interrupts and unified interrupts changes are done. And the fixing offset is a single line change, so included in this patch itself. And, on a lighter note, the whole patch is coming under 45 lines of code changes.
Please let me know your view.

-static irqreturn_t lantiq_ssc_err_interrupt(int irq, void *data)
+static irqreturn_t lantiq_ssc_err_interrupt(struct lantiq_ssc_spi *spi)
  {
-	struct lantiq_ssc_spi *spi = data;
  	u32 stat = lantiq_ssc_readl(spi, LTQ_SPI_STAT);
- if (!(stat & LTQ_SPI_STAT_ERRORS))
-		return IRQ_NONE;
-
Why drop this?
lantiq_ssc_err_interrupt() getting called, only if LTQ_SPI_IRNEN_E is set in the interrupt status register. Once the 'LTQ_SPI_IRNEN_E' bit is set, there is no chance of all error bits being unset in the SPI_STAT register, so the 'if condition' will never be successful. Hence dropped it.

-	err = devm_request_irq(dev, rx_irq, lantiq_ssc_xmit_interrupt,
-			       0, LTQ_SPI_RX_IRQ_NAME, spi);
+	err = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, rx_irq, NULL, lantiq_ssc_isr,
+					IRQF_ONESHOT, LTQ_SPI_RX_IRQ_NAME, spi);
  	if (err)
  		goto err_master_put;
- err = devm_request_irq(dev, tx_irq, lantiq_ssc_xmit_interrupt,
-			       0, LTQ_SPI_TX_IRQ_NAME, spi);
+	err = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, tx_irq, NULL, lantiq_ssc_isr,
+					IRQF_ONESHOT, LTQ_SPI_TX_IRQ_NAME, spi);
  	if (err)
  		goto err_master_put;
- err = devm_request_irq(dev, err_irq, lantiq_ssc_err_interrupt,
-			       0, LTQ_SPI_ERR_IRQ_NAME, spi);
+	err = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, err_irq, NULL, lantiq_ssc_isr,
+					IRQF_ONESHOT, LTQ_SPI_ERR_IRQ_NAME, spi);
It's not clear to me that it's a benefit to combine all the interrupts
unconditionally - obviously where they're shared we need to but could
that be accomplished with IRQF_SHARED and even if it can't it seems like
something conditional would be better.

Lets take a case where Tx/Rx transfer interrupt got triggered and followed by error interrupt(before finishing the tx/rx interrupt execution) which is very less likely to occur, unified interrupt handler establishes synchronization. Comparatively, unified interrupt handler is better for adding support to the latest SoCs on which SPI have single interrupt line for tx,rx and errors.
On basis of these two points i felt to go with unified interrupt handler.

Regards,
Dilip




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