Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: designware: Fix corrupted memory seen in the ISR

[Jan Bottorff]

On 10/26/2023 4:18 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> So, someone wants to come up with a patch to move to non-relaxed io
> accessors?
Is the current thinking to just make writes to DW_IC_INTR_MASK use the 
non-relaxed variant or something more broad?

From a safest functioning viewpoint, we talked about making all 
accessors default to non-relaxed variants. A couple of pretty good 
arguments from knowledgeable people favored this. I know there also was 
some concerns about potential performance impact this might have 
although the counter argument was this is a pretty low speed device so 
some extra cpu cycles on register accesses were not likely to degrade 
overall performance.

I could make the patch if we have consensus (or maintainers decision) on 
which way to go: 1) only writes to DW_IC_INTR_MASK are non-relaxed, 2) 
make all read/write accessors use the non-relaxed version.

I'm personally in camp #2, safety first, performance fine tuning later 
if needed. Latent missing barrier bugs are difficult and time consuming 
to find.

- Jan