Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: allwinner: minimize irq debounce filter per default

[Andre Przywara]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:06:20 +0100
Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 09:44:25AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:29:36 +0100
> > Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Maxime,
> > 
> > thanks for the reply!
> >   
> > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 08:29:52PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:  
> > > > > >>   &pio {
> > > > > >> +	/* 1�s debounce filter on both IRQ banks */    
> > > > > > Is that supposed to be <micro> in UTF-8? It seems to have got lost in
> > > > > > translation, or is that just me?    
> > > > > O yes, the Greek character slipped into the comment.    
> > > > > >> +	input-debounce = <1 1>;    
> > > > > > As mentioned above, I am not so sure this is generic enough to put it
> > > > > > here for PA. And what is the significance of "1 us", in particular? Is
> > > > > > that just the smallest value?      
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes indeed it's a bit more complicated than I feel it needs to be. The
> > > > > configuration is taken as microseconds and translated into the best
> > > > > matching clock and divider by the driver. However, 0 is not translated
> > > > > to the lowest divider of the high speed clock as would be logical if
> > > > > you ask for zero microseconds, but to "leave at default". The default
> > > > > of the board is 0 in the register, translating to lowest divider on the
> > > > > _low_ speed clock.    
> > > > 
> > > > I'd say the "if (!debounce) continue;" code is just to defend against
> > > > the division by zero, which would be the next statement to execute.
> > > > 
> > > > We might want to change that to interpret 0 as "lowest possible", which
> > > > would be 24MHz/1. Please feel free to send a patch in this regard, and
> > > > CC: Maxime, to get some input on that idea.    
> > > 
> > > I never had any complaint on that part either, so the default looks sane
> > > to me.
> > > 
> > > If some board needs a higher debouncing rate, then we should obviously
> > > set it up in the device tree of that board, but changing it for every
> > > user also introduces the risk of breaking other boards that actually
> > > require a lower debouncing frequency.  
> > 
> > Yeah, we definitely should keep the default at 32KHz/1, as this is also
> > the hardware reset value.
> > 
> > Not sure if you were actually arguing this, but the change I sketched
> > above (interpreting 0 as 24MHz/1) is separate though, as the current
> > default is "no DT property", and not 0. There is no input-debounce
> > property user in the kernel tree at the moment, so we wouldn't break
> > anyone. The only thing that would change is if a downstream user was
> > relying on "0" being interpreted as "skip the setup", which isn't
> > really documented and could be argued to be an implementation detail.
> > 
> > So I'd suggest to implement 0 as "lowest possible", and documenting that
> > and the 32KHz/1 default if no property is given.  
> 
> Ah, my bad.
> 
> There's another thing to consider: there's already a generic per-pin
> input-debounce property in pinctrl.
> 
> Since we can't control it per pin but per bank, we moved it to the
> controller back then, but there's always been this (implicit)
> expectation that it was behaving the same way.
> 
> And the generic, per-pin, input-debounce documentation says:
> 
> > Takes the debounce time in usec as argument or 0 to disable debouncing  
> 
> I agree that silently ignoring it is not great, but interpreting 0 as
> the lowest possible is breaking that behaviour which, I believe, is a
> worse outcome.

Is it really? If I understand the hardware manuals correctly, we cannot
really turn that feature off, so isn't the lowest possible time period (24
MHz/1 at the moment) the closest we can get to "turn it off"? So
implementing this would bring us actually closer to the documented
behaviour? Or did I get the meaning of this time period wrong?
At least that's my understanding of how it fixed Andreas' problem: 1µs
is still not "off", but much better than the 31µs of the default. The new
0 would then be 0.041µs.

Cheers,
Andre

> So I'm not sure what's the best course of action here. Rejecting the
> configuration entirely would prevent the entire pinctrl driver from
> probing which sounds really bad. Maybe we could just print an error that
> we rejected it to make it more obvious?
> 
> Maxime