On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:51:04PM +0530, Shashank Sharma wrote:
> From the CI builds, its been observed that during a driver
> reload/insert, dp dual mode read function sometimes fails to
> read from dual mode devices (like LSPCON) over i2c-over-aux
> channel.
> 
> This patch:
> - adds some delay and few retries, allowing a scope for these
>   devices to settle down and respond.
> - changes one error log's level from ERROR->DEBUG as we want
>   to call it an error only after all the retries are exhausted.
> 
> V2: Addressed review comments from Jani (for loop for retry)
> V3: Addressed review comments from Imre (break on partial read too)
> 
> Cc: Ville Syrjala <[email protected]>
> Cc: Imre Deak <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Shashank Sharma <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c
> index 0ef9011..725b298 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c
> @@ -75,8 +75,16 @@ ssize_t drm_dp_dual_mode_read(struct i2c_adapter *adapter,
>               },
>       };
>       int ret;
> +     int retry;
> +
> +     for (retry = 0; retry < 6; retry++) {
> +             if (retry)
> +                     usleep_range(500, 1000);
> +             ret = i2c_transfer(adapter, msgs, ARRAY_SIZE(msgs));
> +             if (ret >= 0)
> +                     break;
> +     }
>  
> -     ret = i2c_transfer(adapter, msgs, ARRAY_SIZE(msgs));
>       if (ret < 0)
>               return ret;
>       if (ret != ARRAY_SIZE(msgs))
> @@ -420,7 +428,7 @@ int drm_lspcon_get_mode(struct i2c_adapter *adapter,
>       ret = drm_dp_dual_mode_read(adapter, DP_DUAL_MODE_LSPCON_CURRENT_MODE,
>                                   &data, sizeof(data));
>       if (ret < 0) {
> -             DRM_ERROR("LSPCON read(0x80, 0x41) failed\n");
> +             DRM_DEBUG_KMS("LSPCON read(0x80, 0x41) failed\n");
>               return -EFAULT;
>       }

Ville's comment about the penalty for well working adapters still holds.
Also I don't think we should care about possibly faulty external
adapters until we see one.

So this probably means moving the retry to drm_lspcon_get_mode() and
lspcon_probe().

--Imre

>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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