On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:53:48AM +0100, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:
> Thanks Sean for the comments.
> On 16/08/13 09:38, Sean Young wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:27:01PM +0100, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:
> [...]
> >> +                  /* discard the entire collection in case of errors!  */
> >> +                  dev_info(dev->dev, "IR RX overrun\n");
> >> +                  writel(IRB_RX_OVERRUN_INT,
> >> +                                  dev->rx_base + IRB_RX_INT_CLEAR);
> >> +                  continue;
> >> +          }
> >> +
> >> +          symbol = readl(dev->rx_base + IRB_RX_SYS);
> >> +          mark = readl(dev->rx_base + IRB_RX_ON);
> >> +
> >> +          if (symbol == IRB_TIMEOUT)
> >> +                  last_symbol = 1;
> >> +
> >> +           /* Ignore any noise */
> >> +          if ((mark > 2) && (symbol > 1)) {
> >> +                  symbol -= mark;
> >> +                  if (dev->overclocking) { /* adjustments to timings */
> >> +                          symbol *= dev->sample_mult;
> >> +                          symbol /= dev->sample_div;
> >> +                          mark *= dev->sample_mult;
> >> +                          mark /= dev->sample_div;
> >> +                  }
> >> +
> >> +                  ev.duration = US_TO_NS(mark);
> >> +                  ev.pulse = true;
> >> +                  ir_raw_event_store(dev->rdev, &ev);
> >> +
> >> +                  if (!last_symbol) {
> >> +                          ev.duration = US_TO_NS(symbol);
> >> +                          ev.pulse = false;
> >> +                          ir_raw_event_store(dev->rdev, &ev);
> > 
> > Make sure you call ir_raw_event_handle() once a while (maybe every time
> > the interrupt handler is called?) to prevent the ir kfifo from 
> > overflowing in case of very long IR. ir_raw_event_store() just adds
> > new edges to the kfifo() but does not flush them to the decoders or
> > lirc.
> I agree, but Am not sure it will really help in this case because, we
> are going to stay in this interrupt handler till we get a
> last_symbol(full key press/release event).. So calling
> ir_raw_event_store mulitple times might not help because the
> ir_raw_event kthread(which is clearing kfifo) which is only scheduled
> after returning from this interrupt.

If I read it correctly, then this is only true if the fifo contains an 
IRB_TIMEOUT symbol. If not yet, then the interrupt handlers is not 
waiting around for those symbols to arrive.

Thanks
Sean
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