Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix race condition inatc_advance_work()

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:49:34PM +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The BUG_ON() directive is triggered probably due to a latency modification
> following inclusion of c10d736 (softirq: reduce latencies).
> This condition has not been met before 3.9-rc1 and doesn't trigger without
> this patch.
> 
> We now make sure that DMA channel is idle before calling atc_complete_all()
> which makes the BUG_ON() "protection" useless.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Linus,
> 
> We have identified a race condition on the Atmel ARM-based AT91 DMA controller
> driver that leads to hitting a BUG_ON() directive.
> This error, only triggered after the inclusion of a patch that reduces the
> softirq latency, is affecting several AT91 SoCs and can be seen
> as a regression by people using the dmaengine driver (on NAND flash
> accesses for instance).
> 
> I know that it is late in the development cycle but can you please consider
> including it in your tree before 3.9-final?
> 
> This patch can also go through dmaengine tree (Vinod Koul) but I do not know if
> there is enough time remaining.
> 
> Thanks a lot, best regards,
> 
> Nicolas Ferre
> 
> 
>  drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c b/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
> index 6e13f26..88cfc61 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
> @@ -310,8 +310,6 @@ static void atc_complete_all(struct at_dma_chan *atchan)
>  
>  	dev_vdbg(chan2dev(&atchan->chan_common), "complete all\n");
>  
> -	BUG_ON(atc_chan_is_enabled(atchan));
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Submit queued descriptors ASAP, i.e. before we go through
>  	 * the completed ones.
> @@ -368,6 +366,9 @@ static void atc_advance_work(struct at_dma_chan *atchan)
>  {
>  	dev_vdbg(chan2dev(&atchan->chan_common), "advance_work\n");
>  
> +	if (atc_chan_is_enabled(atchan))
> +		return;
> +
>  	if (list_empty(&atchan->active_list) ||
>  	    list_is_singular(&atchan->active_list)) {
>  		atc_complete_all(atchan);
> @@ -1078,9 +1079,7 @@ static void atc_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan)
>  		return;
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&atchan->lock, flags);
> -	if (!atc_chan_is_enabled(atchan)) {
> -		atc_advance_work(atchan);
> -	}
> +	atc_advance_work(atchan);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&atchan->lock, flags);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.0
> 
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