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i2c: designware: Fix corrupted memory seen in the ISR
authorJan Bottorff <[email protected]>
Thu, 9 Nov 2023 03:19:27 +0000 (03:19 +0000)
committerWolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:51:14 +0000 (04:51 -0500)
commitf726eaa787e9f9bc858c902d18a09af6bcbfcdaf
treede9e6ddd5b2cab1e3a7bd8f56c33f4e12badcca6
parent7b211c7671212cad0b83603c674838c7e824d845
i2c: designware: Fix corrupted memory seen in the ISR

When running on a many core ARM64 server, errors were
happening in the ISR that looked like corrupted memory. These
corruptions would fix themselves if small delays were inserted
in the ISR. Errors reported by the driver included "i2c_designware
APMC0D0F:00: i2c_dw_xfer_msg: invalid target address" and
"i2c_designware APMC0D0F:00:controller timed out" during
in-band IPMI SSIF stress tests.

The problem was determined to be memory writes in the driver were not
becoming visible to all cores when execution rapidly shifted between
cores, like when a register write immediately triggers an ISR.
Processors with weak memory ordering, like ARM64, make no
guarantees about the order normal memory writes become globally
visible, unless barrier instructions are used to control ordering.

To solve this, regmap accessor functions configured by this driver
were changed to use non-relaxed forms of the low-level register
access functions, which include a barrier on platforms that require
it. This assures memory writes before a controller register access are
visible to all cores. The community concluded defaulting to correct
operation outweighed defaulting to the small performance gains from
using relaxed access functions. Being a low speed device added weight to
this choice of default register access behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jan Bottorff <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jarkko Nikula <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Serge Semin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-common.c
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