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    i2c: mediatek: Optimize master_xfer() and avoid circular locking · 8b4fc246
    AngeloGioacchino Del Regno authored
    Especially (but not only) during probe, it may happen that multiple
    devices are communicating via i2c (or multiple i2c busses) and
    sometimes while others are probing asynchronously.
    For example, a Cr50 TPM may be filling entropy (or userspace may be
    reading random data) while the rt5682 (i2c) codec driver reads/sets
    some registers, like while getting/setting a clock's rate, which
    happens both during probe and during system operation.
    
    In this driver, the mtk_i2c_transfer() function (which is the i2c
    .master_xfer() callback) was granularly managing the clocks by
    performing a clk_bulk_prepare_enable() to start them and its inverse.
    This is not only creating possible circular locking dependencies in
    the some cases (like former explanation), but it's also suboptimal,
    as clk_core prepare/unprepare operations are using mutex locking,
    which creates a bit of unwanted overhead (for example, i2c trackpads
    will call master_xfer() every few milliseconds!).
    
    With this commit, we avoid both the circular locking and additional
    overhead by changing how we handle the clocks in this driver:
    - Prepare the clocks during probe (and PM resume)
    - Enable/disable clocks in mtk_i2c_transfer()
    - Unprepare the clocks only for driver removal (and PM suspend)
    
    For the sake of providing a full explanation: during probe, the
    clocks are not only prepared but also enabled, as this is needed
    for some hardware initialization but, after that, we are disabling
    but not unpreparing them, leaving an expected state for the
    aforementioned clock handling strategy.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarNícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarQii Wang <qii.wang@mediatek.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
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