Re: [PATCH] of: Fix locking vs. interrupts

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 10:25 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > The OF code uses irqsafe locks everywhere except in a handful of functions
> > for no obvious reasons. Since the conversion from the old rwlocks, this
> > now triggers lockdep warnings when used at interrupt time. At least one
> > driver (ibmvscsi) seems to be doing that from softirq context.
> > 
> > This converts the few non-irqsafe locks into irqsafe ones, making them
> > consistent with the rest of the code.
> 
> Fun. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/4/416 seems to have got lost 
>  
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [v3.9+]
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > Note: It's silly to access the device-tree at interrupt time in most cases,
> > and we should probably fix ibmvscsi, but for the time being, let's fix the
> 
> Right.
> 
> > obvious bug. Thomas, this can probably still go into 3.10... If not, I've
> > CCed stable.
> 
> Should go through Grant I think.

Right, thinko. Sent to you due to the bug being exposed by your
conversion to spinlocks. Anyway, Grant got it now.

Cheers,
Ben.



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