Re: [PATCH] mailbox: PCC: Fix lockdep warning when request PCC channel

[Prakash, Prashanth]

Hi Hoan,

On 10/14/2016 4:52 PM, Hoan Tran wrote:
> This patch fixes the lockdep warning below
>
> [    7.229767] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags))
> [    7.229776] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    7.229787] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at linux-next/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2876 loc
> kdep_trace_alloc+0xe0/0xf0
> [    7.229790] Modules linked in:
> [    7.229793]
> [    7.229798] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.8.0-11756-g86c5152 #46
> ...
> [    7.229900] Call trace:
> [    7.229903] Exception stack(0xffff8007da837890 to 0xffff8007da8379c0)
> [    7.229906] 7880:                                   ffff8007da834000 0001000000000000
> [    7.229909] 78a0: ffff8007da837a70 ffff0000081111a0 00000000600000c5 000000000000003d
> [    7.229912] 78c0: 9374bc6a7f3c7832 0000000000381878 ffff000009db7ab8 000000000000002f
> [    7.229915] 78e0: ffff00000811aabc ffff000008be2548 ffff8007da837990 ffff00000811adf8
> [    7.229918] 7900: ffff8007da834000 00000000024080c0 00000000000000c0 ffff000009021000
> [    7.229921] 7920: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff000008c8f7c8 ffff8007da579810
> [    7.229923] 7940: 000000000000002f ffff8007da858000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
> [    7.229926] 7960: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff00000811a468 0000000000000002
> [    7.229929] 7980: 656c62617369645f 0000000000038187 00000000000000ee ffff8007da837850
> [    7.229932] 79a0: ffff000009db50c0 ffff000009db569d 0000000000000006 ffff000089db568f
> [    7.229936] [<ffff0000081111a0>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xe0/0xf0
> [    7.229940] [<ffff0000081f4950>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x50/0x250
> [    7.229945] [<ffff00000857c088>] devres_alloc_node+0x28/0x60
> [    7.229949] [<ffff0000081220e0>] devm_request_threaded_irq+0x50/0xe0
> [    7.229955] [<ffff0000087e6220>] pcc_mbox_request_channel+0x110/0x170
> [    7.229960] [<ffff0000084b2660>] acpi_cppc_processor_probe+0x264/0x414
> [    7.229963] [<ffff0000084ae9f4>] __acpi_processor_start+0x28/0xa0
> [    7.229966] [<ffff0000084aeab0>] acpi_processor_start+0x44/0x54
> [    7.229970] [<ffff00000857897c>] driver_probe_device+0x1fc/0x2b0
> [    7.229974] [<ffff000008578ae4>] __driver_attach+0xb4/0xc0
> [    7.229977] [<ffff00000857683c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0xa0
> [    7.229980] [<ffff000008578110>] driver_attach+0x20/0x30
> [    7.229983] [<ffff000008577c20>] bus_add_driver+0x110/0x230
> [    7.229987] [<ffff000008579320>] driver_register+0x60/0x100
> [    7.229991] [<ffff000008d478b8>] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x2c/0xb0
> [    7.229996] [<ffff000008083168>] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x130
> [    7.230000] [<ffff000008d20d6c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x2b4
> [    7.230004] [<ffff000008945d90>] kernel_init+0x10/0x110
> [    7.230007] [<ffff000008082e80>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50
>
> It's because the spinlock inside pcc_mbox_request_channel() is
> kept too long. Adding a mutex to protect critical section of this
> function. Beside of that, spinlock is still used to protect the
> data of channel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mailbox/pcc.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> index 08c87fa..b6cece0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@
>  static int *pcc_doorbell_irq;
>  
>  static struct mbox_controller pcc_mbox_ctrl = {};
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcc_con_mutex);
I am not sure this will work. If we are not taking the channel lock, we don't have a good
way to synchronize with the mailbox framework while we are accessing the same data.

Why don't we just move out the devm_request_irq and devm_free_irq outside the
critical section? In pcc_mbox_request_channel, we can call devm_request_irq after
releasing the spin_lock and in pcc_mbox_free_channel we can call devm_free_irq and
then take the spin_lock to access the shared data.

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Thanks,
Prashanth