Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Move clearing pending IRQ to .irq_request_resources callback

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:38 AM Maulik Shah <mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When GPIOs that are routed to PDC are used as output they can still latch
> the IRQ pending at GIC. As a result the spurious IRQ was handled when the
> client driver change the direction to input to starts using it as IRQ.
>
> Currently such erroneous latched IRQ are cleared with .irq_enable callback
> however if the driver continue to use GPIO as interrupt and invokes
> disable_irq() followed by enable_irq() then everytime during enable_irq()
> previously latched interrupt gets cleared.
>
> This can make edge IRQs not seen after enable_irq() if they had arrived
> after the driver has invoked disable_irq() and were pending at GIC.
>
> Move clearing erroneous IRQ to .irq_request_resources callback as this is
> the place where GPIO direction is changed as input and its locked as IRQ.
>
> While at this add a missing check to invoke msm_gpio_irq_clear_unmask()
> from .irq_enable callback only when GPIO is not routed to PDC.
>
> Fixes: e35a6ae0eb3a ("pinctrl/msm: Setup GPIO chip in hierarchy")
> Signed-off-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This looks critical so I applied it for fixes so we get some
rotation in linux-next.

If Bjorn has other opinions he will tell us :)

Yours,
Linus Walleij