Re: [PATCH 6/6] i3c: master: svc: fix random hot join failure since timeout error

From: Miquel Raynal
Date: Tue Oct 17 2023 - 10:33:43 EST


Hi Frank,

Frank.Li@xxxxxxx wrote on Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:32:32 -0400:

> master side report:
> silvaco-i3c-master 44330000.i3c-master: Error condition: MSTATUS 0x020090c7, MERRWARN 0x00100000
>
> BIT 20: TIMEOUT error
> The module has stalled too long in a frame. This happens when:
> - The TX FIFO or RX FIFO is not handled and the bus is stuck in the
> middle of a message,
> - No STOP was issued and between messages,
> - IBI manual is used and no decision was made.
> The maximum stall period is 10 KHz or 100 μs.
>
> This is a just warning. System irq thread schedule latency is possible

can be bigger
> bigger than 100us. Just omit this waring.

I'm not sure this is the correct approach. It's a real issue but there
is not much we can do about it. Perhaps dev_err is too high, but I
would not entirely drop this message. Maybe a comment and turning the
message into a dbg printk would be more appropriate?

> Fixes: dd3c52846d59 ("i3c: master: svc: Add Silvaco I3C master driver")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/i3c/master/svc-i3c-master.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/svc-i3c-master.c b/drivers/i3c/master/svc-i3c-master.c
> index 5bca369d6912..18bc277edc8a 100644
> --- a/drivers/i3c/master/svc-i3c-master.c
> +++ b/drivers/i3c/master/svc-i3c-master.c
> @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
> #define SVC_I3C_MINTMASKED 0x098
> #define SVC_I3C_MERRWARN 0x09C
> #define SVC_I3C_MERRWARN_NACK BIT(2)
> +#define SVC_I3C_MERRWARN_TIMEOUT BIT(20)
> #define SVC_I3C_MDMACTRL 0x0A0
> #define SVC_I3C_MDATACTRL 0x0AC
> #define SVC_I3C_MDATACTRL_FLUSHTB BIT(0)
> @@ -225,6 +226,11 @@ static bool svc_i3c_master_error(struct svc_i3c_master *master)
> if (SVC_I3C_MSTATUS_ERRWARN(mstatus)) {
> merrwarn = readl(master->regs + SVC_I3C_MERRWARN);
> writel(merrwarn, master->regs + SVC_I3C_MERRWARN);
> +
> + /* ignore timeout error */
> + if (merrwarn & SVC_I3C_MERRWARN_TIMEOUT)
> + return false;
> +
> dev_err(master->dev,
> "Error condition: MSTATUS 0x%08x, MERRWARN 0x%08x\n",
> mstatus, merrwarn);


Thanks,
Miquèl