Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] iio: Fix ABBA deadlock in inv-mpu6050

[Daniel Baluta]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:53:05PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> Sending this as an RFC because I don't know if style fixes are appropriate
>> for this driver and also not sure if deadlock fix is the best solution.
>>
>> I2C people should only look at patches 8/9 and 9/9.
>>
>> The mpu6050 accel+gyro combo has an auxiliary I2C bus, allowing for
>> an auxiliary sensor to be connected (eg. a magnetometer).
>>
>> The mpu can either act as an I2C master (functionality not currently
>> implemented in the driver) or it can use a bypass multiplexer which
>> directly connects the auxiliary I2C bus pins to the main I2C bus pins [1]
>> Currently the driver implements the bypass mode via an I2C mux.
>>
>> This patchset fixes a deadlock in inv-mpu6050 IMU which happens when
>> magnetometer (on auxiliary I2C bus) runs in parallel with accel or gyro.
>>
>> First 7 patches do some cleanup in order to make INV MPU6050 code easier
>> to read.
>>
>> Patch number 8 allows passing NULL select callbacks to i2c_mux_master_xfer
>> and i2c_mux_smbus_xfer.
>>
>> Patch number 9 actually fixes the deadlock.
>
> We recently had a bigger patch series fixing locking problems related to
> muxes. I sadly didn't have the time to review it. Can you have a look if
> it helps your case?
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.i2c/26169

Thanks Wolfram,

Will look into it.