Re: [RFC][PATCH] usb: typec: tcpci_rt1711h: Try to avoid screaming irq causing boot hangs

From: Jun Li
Date: Sat May 30 2020 - 06:30:12 EST


Hi John,

John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> ä2020å5æ30æåå äå12:02åéï
>
> I've recently (since 5.7-rc1) started noticing very rare hangs
> pretty early in bootup on my HiKey960 board.
>
> They have been particularly difficult to debug, as the system
> seems to not respond at all to sysrq- commands. However, the
> system is alive as I'll occaionally see firmware loading timeout
> errors after awhile. Adding changes like initcall_debug and
> lockdep weren't informative, as it tended to cause the problem
> to hide.
>
> I finally tried to dig in a bit more on this today, and noticed
> that the last dmesg output before the hang was usually:
> "random: crng init done"
>
> So I dumped the stack at that point, and saw it was being called
> from the pl061 gpio irq, and the hang always occurred when the
> crng init finished on cpu 0. Instrumenting that more I could see
> that when the issue triggered, we were getting a stream of irqs.
>
> Chasing further, I found the screaming irq was for the rt1711h,
> and narrowed down that we were hitting the !chip->tcpci check
> which immediately returns IRQ_HANDLED, but does not stop the
> irq from triggering immediately afterwards.
>
> This patch slightly reworks the logic, so if we hit the irq
> before the chip->tcpci has been assigned, we still read and
> write the alert register, but just skip calling tcpci_irq().
>
> With this change, I haven't managed to trip over the problem
> (though it hasn't been super long - but I did confirm I hit
> the error case and it didn't hang the system).
>
> I still have some concern that I don't know why this cropped
> up since 5.7-rc, as there haven't been any changes to the
> driver since 5.4 (or before). It may just be the initialization
> timing has changed due to something else, and its just exposed
> this issue? I'm not sure, and that's not super re-assuring.
>
> Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts if this looks like a sane
> fix or not.

I think a better solution may be move the irq request after port register,
we should fire the irq after everything is setup.
does below change works for you?

diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
index 0173890..b56a088 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
@@ -179,26 +179,6 @@ static irqreturn_t rt1711h_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
return tcpci_irq(chip->tcpci);
}

-static int rt1711h_init_alert(struct rt1711h_chip *chip,
- struct i2c_client *client)
-{
- int ret;
-
- /* Disable chip interrupts before requesting irq */
- ret = rt1711h_write16(chip, TCPC_ALERT_MASK, 0);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
-
- ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(chip->dev, client->irq, NULL,
- rt1711h_irq,
- IRQF_ONESHOT | IRQF_TRIGGER_LOW,
- dev_name(chip->dev), chip);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
- enable_irq_wake(client->irq);
- return 0;
-}
-
static int rt1711h_sw_reset(struct rt1711h_chip *chip)
{
int ret;
@@ -260,7 +240,8 @@ static int rt1711h_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
if (ret < 0)
return ret;

- ret = rt1711h_init_alert(chip, client);
+ /* Disable chip interrupts before requesting irq */
+ ret = rt1711h_write16(chip, TCPC_ALERT_MASK, 0);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;

@@ -271,6 +252,14 @@ static int rt1711h_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(chip->tcpci))
return PTR_ERR(chip->tcpci);

+ ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(chip->dev, client->irq, NULL,
+ rt1711h_irq,
+ IRQF_ONESHOT | IRQF_TRIGGER_LOW,
+ dev_name(chip->dev), chip);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ enable_irq_wake(client->irq);
+
return 0;
}

Li Jun
>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: YongQin Liu <yongqin.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
> index 017389021b96..530fd2c111ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c
> @@ -159,9 +159,6 @@ static irqreturn_t rt1711h_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
> u8 status;
> struct rt1711h_chip *chip = dev_id;
>
> - if (!chip->tcpci)
> - return IRQ_HANDLED;
> -
> ret = rt1711h_read16(chip, TCPC_ALERT, &alert);
> if (ret < 0)
> goto out;
> @@ -176,6 +173,9 @@ static irqreturn_t rt1711h_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
> }
>
> out:
> + if (!chip->tcpci)
> + return IRQ_HANDLED;
> +
> return tcpci_irq(chip->tcpci);
> }
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>