Re: [PATCH] clk: renesas: cpg-mssr: Fix reset control race condition

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Jul 22 2019 - 18:05:17 EST


Quoting Geert Uytterhoeven (2019-07-11 06:03:59)
> The module reset code in the Renesas CPG/MSSR driver uses
> read-modify-write (RMW) operations to write to a Software Reset Register
> (SRCRn), and simple writes to write to a Software Reset Clearing
> Register (SRSTCLRn), as was mandated by the R-Car Gen2 and Gen3 Hardware
> User's Manuals.
>
> However, this may cause a race condition when two devices are reset in
> parallel: if the reset for device A completes in the middle of the RMW
> operation for device B, device A may be reset again, causing subtle
> failures (e.g. i2c timeouts):
>
> thread A thread B
> -------- --------

Applied to clk-fixes