Re: [PATCH] Fix freeze in lm8333 i2c keyboard driver

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi Jeff, Tomas,

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 10:39:49AM -0500, Jeff LaBundy wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 03:00:53PM +0200, Tomas Mudrunka wrote:
> > LM8333 uses gpio interrupt line which is active-low.
> > When interrupt is set to FALLING edge and button is pressed
> > before driver loads, driver will miss the edge and never respond.
> > To fix this we handle ONESHOT LOW interrupt rather than edge.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/input/keyboard/lm8333.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/lm8333.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/lm8333.c
> > index 7457c3220..c5770ebb2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/lm8333.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/lm8333.c
> > @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int lm8333_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	err = request_threaded_irq(client->irq, NULL, lm8333_irq_thread,
> > -				   IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING | IRQF_ONESHOT,
> > +				   IRQF_TRIGGER_LOW | IRQF_ONESHOT,
> >  				   "lm8333", lm8333);
> >  	if (err)
> >  		goto free_mem;
> 
> Thanks for the patch, but this is a NAK in my opinion.
> 
> First of all, we should not be hard-coding interrupt polarity in the
> first place; that is an existing piece of technical debt in this driver.

Yes, I wonder if the original hardware was limited to the edge
interrupts.

> 
> Second, changing from edge-triggered to level-triggered interrupts runs
> the risk of creating an interrupt storm depending on the time it takes
> the device to deassert the irq following the I2C read and the point at
> which the threaded handler returns. Have you measured this?

IRQF_ONESHOT ensures that the level interrupt is unmasked only when the
threaded handler returns.

> 
> Can we not simply read the interrupt status registers once at start-up
> to clear any pending status? This is essentially what your change does
> anyway, albeit indirectly.
> 

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry