Re: [PATCH v4 20/36] media: imx: Add CSI subdev driver

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Thu Feb 16 2017 - 07:41:36 EST


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:52:06AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 06:19:22PM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > +static const struct platform_device_id imx_csi_ids[] = {
> > + { .name = "imx-ipuv3-csi" },
> > + { },
> > +};
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, imx_csi_ids);
> > +
> > +static struct platform_driver imx_csi_driver = {
> > + .probe = imx_csi_probe,
> > + .remove = imx_csi_remove,
> > + .id_table = imx_csi_ids,
> > + .driver = {
> > + .name = "imx-ipuv3-csi",
> > + },
> > +};
> > +module_platform_driver(imx_csi_driver);
> > +
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("i.MX CSI subdev driver");
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@xxxxxxxxxx>");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:imx-ipuv3-csi");
>
> Just a reminder that automatic module loading of this is completely
> broken right now (not your problem) due to this stupid idea in the
> IPUv3 code:
>
> if (!ret)
> ret = platform_device_add(pdev);
> if (ret) {
> platform_device_put(pdev);
> goto err_register;
> }
>
> /*
> * Set of_node only after calling platform_device_add. Otherwise
> * the platform:imx-ipuv3-crtc modalias won't be used.
> */
> pdev->dev.of_node = of_node;
>
> setting pdev->dev.of_node changes the modalias exported to userspace,
> so udev sees a DT based modalias, which causes it to totally miss any
> driver using a non-DT based modalias.
>
> The IPUv3 code needs fixing, not only for imx-media-csi, but also for
> imx-ipuv3-crtc too, because that module will also suffer the same
> issue.
>
> The only solution is... don't fsck with dev->of_node assignment. In
> this case, it's probably much better to pass it in via platform data.
> If you then absolutely must have dev->of_node, doing it in the driver
> means that you avoid the modalias mess before the appropriate driver
> is loaded. However, that's still not a nice solution because the
> modalias file still ends up randomly changing its contents.
>
> As I say, not _your_ problem, but it's still a problem that needs
> solving, and I don't want it forgotten about.

I've just hacked up a solution to this, and unfortunately it reveals a
problem with Steve's code. Picking out the imx & media-related messages:

[ 8.012191] imx_media_common: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 8.018175] imx_media: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 8.748345] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_csi0_mux
[ 8.753451] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_csi1_mux
[ 9.055196] imx219 0-0010: detected IMX219 sensor
[ 9.090733] imx6_mipi_csi2: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.092247] imx-media: Registered subdev imx219 0-0010
[ 9.334338] imx-media: Registered subdev imx6-mipi-csi2
[ 9.372452] imx_media_capture: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.378163] imx_media_capture: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.390033] imx_media_csi: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.394362] imx-media: Received unknown subdev ipu1_csi0
[ 9.394699] imx-ipuv3-csi: probe of imx-ipuv3-csi.0 failed with error -22
[ 9.394840] imx-media: Received unknown subdev ipu1_csi1
[ 9.394887] imx-ipuv3-csi: probe of imx-ipuv3-csi.1 failed with error -22
[ 9.394992] imx-media: Received unknown subdev ipu2_csi0
[ 9.395026] imx-ipuv3-csi: probe of imx-ipuv3-csi.4 failed with error -22
[ 9.395119] imx-media: Received unknown subdev ipu2_csi1
[ 9.395159] imx-ipuv3-csi: probe of imx-ipuv3-csi.5 failed with error -22
[ 9.411722] imx_media_vdic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.412820] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_vdic
[ 9.424687] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_vdic
[ 9.436074] imx_media_ic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.437455] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_prp
[ 9.437788] imx_media_ic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.447542] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_prpenc
[ 9.455225] ipu1_ic_prpenc: Registered ipu1_ic_prpenc capture as /dev/video3
[ 9.459203] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu1_ic_prpvf
[ 9.460484] imx_media_ic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 9.460726] ipu1_ic_prpvf: Registered ipu1_ic_prpvf capture as /dev/video4
[ 9.460983] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_prp
[ 9.461161] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_prpenc
[ 9.461737] ipu2_ic_prpenc: Registered ipu2_ic_prpenc capture as /dev/video5
[ 9.463767] imx-media: Registered subdev ipu2_ic_prpvf
[ 9.464294] ipu2_ic_prpvf: Registered ipu2_ic_prpvf capture as /dev/video6
[ 9.464345] imx-media: imx_media_create_link: (null):1 -> ipu1_ic_prp:0
[ 9.464413] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 9.469134] kernel BUG at /home/rmk/git/linux-rmk/drivers/media/media-entity.c:628!
[ 9.476924] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
[ 9.482246] Modules linked in: imx_media_ic(C+) imx_media_vdic(C) imx_media_csi(C) imx_media_capture(C) uvcvideo imx6_mipi_csi2(C) snd_soc_imx_audmux imx219 snd_soc_sgtl5000 video_multiplexer caam imx_sdma imx2_wdt snd_soc_fsl_ssi snd_soc_fsl_spdif imx_pcm_dma coda imx_thermal v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_dma_contig videobuf2_core videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops imx_media(C) imx_media_common(C) rc_pinnacle_pctv_hd nfsd dw_hdmi_cec dw_hdmi_ahb_audio etnaviv
[ 9.524500] CPU: 1 PID: 263 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G C 4.10.0-rc7+ #2112
[ 9.532995] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree)
[ 9.539619] task: edef1880 task.stack: d03ca000
[ 9.544313] PC is at media_create_pad_link+0x134/0x140
[ 9.549541] LR is at imx_media_probe_complete+0x164/0x24c [imx_media]
[ 9.556080] pc : [<c04f0eb0>] lr : [<bf052524>] psr: 60070013
sp : d03cbbc8 ip : d03cbbf8 fp : d03cbbf4
[ 9.567712] r10: 00000001 r9 : 00000000 r8 : d0170d14
[ 9.573007] r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00000001 r5 : 00000000 r4 : d0170d14
[ 9.579612] r3 : 00000000 r2 : d0170d14 r1 : 00000001 r0 : 00000000
[ 9.586256] Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none[ 9.593486] Control: 10c5387d Table: 3e77c04a DAC: 00000051
[ 9.599317] Process systemd-udevd (pid: 263, stack limit = 0xd03ca210)
[ 9.605950] Stack: (0xd03cbbc8 to 0xd03cc000)
[ 9.610368] bbc0: 00000000 00000000 ee980410 00000000 00000000 d0170d14
[ 9.618658] bbe0: 00000000 00000001 d03cbc54 d03cbbf8 bf052524 c04f0d88 00000000 d0170d88
[ 9.626961] bc00: 00000000 c0a57dc4 0004a364 ee98011c 00000000 00000003 00000001 ee980230
[ 9.635267] bc20: ee980274 ee980010 d03cbc54 d0170f14 ee9ca4cc ee9974c4 bf0523c0 c0a57dc4
[ 9.643539] bc40: f184bb30 00000026 d03cbc74 d03cbc58 c0502f50 bf0523cc ee9ca4cc d0170f14
[ 9.651824] bc60: c0a57e08 d0170fc0 d03cbc9c d03cbc78 c0502fdc c0502e70 00000000 d0170f10
[ 9.660132] bc80: 00000000 d02c0c10 bf122cd0 d0170f14 d03cbcc4 d03cbca0 bf121154 c0502f68
[ 9.668423] bca0: bf12104c ffffffed d02c0c10 fffffdfb bf123248 00000000 d03cbce4 d03cbcc8
[ 9.676713] bcc0: c041aeb4 bf121058 d02c0c10 c1419d70 00000000 bf123248 d03cbd0c d03cbce8
[ 9.684992] bce0: c0418ec4 c041ae68 d02c0c10 bf123248 d02c0c44 00000000 00000001 00000124
[ 9.693282] bd00: d03cbd2c d03cbd10 c0419044 c0418ccc 00000000 00000000 bf123248 c0418f88
[ 9.701618] bd20: d03cbd54 d03cbd30 c04172e4 c0418f94 ef0f64a4 d01b8cd0 d03d9858 bf123248
[ 9.709900] bd40: d03d9c00 c0a45e10 d03cbd64 d03cbd58 c0418728 c0417294 d03cbd8c d03cbd68
[ 9.718203] bd60: c0418428 c0418710 bf122e48 d03cbd78 bf123248 c0a704a8 bf126000 00000000
[ 9.729180] bd80: d03cbda4 d03cbd90 c0419ec4 c0418340 bf123480 c0a704a8 d03cbdb4 d03cbda8
[ 9.739950] bda0: c041ad88 c0419e50 d03cbdc4 d03cbdb8 bf126018 c041ad4c d03cbe34 d03cbdc8
[ 9.751089] bdc0: c00098ac bf12600c d03cbdec d03cbdd8 c00a8888 c0087240 00000000 ed4a9440
[ 9.761941] bde0: d03cbe34 d03cbdf0 c016c690 c00a8814 c016b554 c016aa60 00000001 c015f3f8
[ 9.772940] be00: 00000005 0000000c edef1880 bf123480 c0a704a8 bf123480 c0a704a8 ed4a9440
[ 9.784008] be20: bf123480 00000001 d03cbe5c d03cbe38 c011b1e4 c0009874 d03cbe5c d03cbe48
[ 9.795017] be40: c09f5ea7 c0a704a8 c09e04ec bf123480 d03cbf14 d03cbe60 c00d2dd0 c011b188
[ 9.806069] be60: bf12348c 00007fff bf123480 c00d09f0 f1847000 bf12792c f18495c0 bf123680
[ 9.817194] be80: bf12348c bf1236f0 00000000 bf1234c8 c017c1d0 c017bfac f1847000 00004f68
[ 9.828347] bea0: c017c2e8 00000000 edef1880 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 9.839542] bec0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 9.850754] bee0: 00000000 00000000 00000003 7fffffff 00000000 00000000 00000007 b6c9e63c
[ 9.861991] bf00: d03ca000 00000000 d03cbfa4 d03cbf18 c00d36cc c00d1480 7fffffff 00000000
[ 9.873266] bf20: 00000003 ee0384d4 d03cbf74 f1847000 00004f68 00000000 00000002 f1847000
[ 9.884593] bf40: 00004f68 f184bb30 f184989b f184a7d8 000026f0 00002dd0 00000000 00000000
[ 9.895998] bf60: 00000000 0000192c 00000019 0000001a 00000011 00000000 0000000a 00000000
[ 9.907408] bf80: c008b848 80c36630 00000000 2529fc00 0000017b c000ff04 00000000 d03cbfa8
[ 9.918858] bfa0: c000fd60 c00d3644 80c36630 00000000 00000007 b6c9e63c 00000000 80c38178
[ 9.930354] bfc0: 80c36630 00000000 2529fc00 0000017b 00020000 7f96eb0c 80c37848 00000000
[ 9.941900] bfe0: bed55928 bed55918 b6c988ff b6bea572 600f0030 00000007 3fffd861 3fffdc61
[ 9.953532] Backtrace:
[ 9.959442] [<c04f0d7c>] (media_create_pad_link) from [<bf052524>] (imx_media_probe_complete+0x164/0x24c [imx_media])
[ 9.973644] r10:00000001 r9:00000000 r8:d0170d14 r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:ee980410
[ 9.985112] r4:00000000 r3:00000000
[ 9.992696] [<bf0523c0>] (imx_media_probe_complete [imx_media]) from [<c0502f50>] (v4l2_async_test_notify+0xec/0xf8)
[ 10.007413] r10:00000026 r9:f184bb30 r8:c0a57dc4 r7:bf0523c0 r6:ee9974c4 r5:ee9ca4cc
[ 10.019212] r4:d0170f14
[ 10.025650] [<c0502e64>] (v4l2_async_test_notify) from [<c0502fdc>] (v4l2_async_register_subdev+0x80/0xdc)
[ 10.039736] r7:d0170fc0 r6:c0a57e08 r5:d0170f14 r4:ee9ca4cc
[ 10.049613] [<c0502f5c>] (v4l2_async_register_subdev) from [<bf121154>] (imx_ic_probe+0x108/0x144 [imx_media_ic])
[ 10.063953] r8:d0170f14 r7:bf122cd0 r6:d02c0c10 r5:00000000 r4:d0170f10 r3:00000000
[ 10.075786] [<bf12104c>] (imx_ic_probe [imx_media_ic]) from [<c041aeb4>] (platform_drv_probe+0x58/0xb8)
[ 10.089118] r8:00000000 r7:bf123248 r6:fffffdfb r5:d02c0c10 r4:ffffffed r3:bf12104c
[ 10.100683] [<c041ae5c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c0418ec4>] (driver_probe_device+0x204/0x2c8)
[ 10.113279] r7:bf123248 r6:00000000 r5:c1419d70 r4:d02c0c10
[ 10.122765] [<c0418cc0>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0419044>] (__driver_attach+0xbc/0xc0)
[ 10.135098] r10:00000124 r8:00000001 r7:00000000 r6:d02c0c44 r5:bf123248 r4:d02c0c10
[ 10.146785] [<c0418f88>] (__driver_attach) from [<c04172e4>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0x90)
[ 10.158811] r6:c0418f88 r5:bf123248 r4:00000000 r3:00000000
[ 10.168375] [<c0417288>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c0418728>] (driver_attach+0x24/0x28)
[ 10.180413] r6:c0a45e10 r5:d03d9c00 r4:bf123248
[ 10.188959] [<c0418704>] (driver_attach) from [<c0418428>] (bus_add_driver+0xf4/0x200)
[ 10.200775] [<c0418334>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c0419ec4>] (driver_register+0x80/0xfc)
[ 10.212707] r7:00000000 r6:bf126000 r5:c0a704a8 r4:bf123248
[ 10.222254] [<c0419e44>] (driver_register) from [<c041ad88>] (__platform_driver_register+0x48/0x4c)
[ 10.235212] r5:c0a704a8 r4:bf123480
[ 10.242694] [<c041ad40>] (__platform_driver_register) from [<bf126018>] (imx_ic_driver_init+0x18/0x24 [imx_media_ic])
[ 10.257308] [<bf126000>] (imx_ic_driver_init [imx_media_ic]) from [<c00098ac>] (do_one_initcall+0x44/0x170)
[ 10.271043] [<c0009868>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c011b1e4>] (do_init_module+0x68/0x1d8)
[ 10.283139] r8:00000001 r7:bf123480 r6:ed4a9440 r5:c0a704a8 r4:bf123480
[ 10.293849] [<c011b17c>] (do_init_module) from [<c00d2dd0>] (load_module+0x195c/0x2080)
[ 10.305867] r7:bf123480 r6:c09e04ec r5:c0a704a8 r4:c09f5ea7
[ 10.315523] [<c00d1474>] (load_module) from [<c00d36cc>] (SyS_finit_module+0x94/0xa0)
[ 10.327382] r10:00000000 r9:d03ca000 r8:b6c9e63c r7:00000007 r6:00000000 r5:00000000
[ 10.339238] r4:7fffffff
[ 10.345766] [<c00d3638>] (SyS_finit_module) from [<c000fd60>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
[ 10.357994] r8:c000ff04 r7:0000017b r6:2529fc00 r5:00000000 r4:80c36630
[ 10.368747] Code: e1a01007 ebfffce1 e3e0000b e89daff8 (e7f001f2)
[ 10.378883] ---[ end trace 2051fac455b36c5a ]---
[ 11.228961] imx_media_ic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 11.247536] imx_media_ic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 11.301366] imx_media_ic: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

So there's probably some sort of race going on.

However, the following is primerily directed at Laurent as the one who
introduced the BUG_ON() in question...

NEVER EVER USE BUG_ON() IN A PATH THAT CAN RETURN AN ERROR.

It's possible to find Linus rants about this, eg,
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg146439.html

I should have reacted to the damn added BUG_ON() lines. I suspect I
will have to finally just remove the idiotic BUG_ON() concept once and
for all, because there is NO F*CKING EXCUSE to knowingly kill the
kernel.

Also: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/BUG.html

Rule of thumb: BUG() is only good for something that never happens and
that we really have no other option for (ie state is so corrupt that
continuing is deadly).

So, _unless_ people want to see BUG_ON() removed from the kernel, I
strongly suggest to _STOP_ using it as "we didn't like the function
arguments, let's use it as an assert() statement instead of returning
an error."

There's no excuse what so ever to be killing the machine in
media_create_pad_link(). If it doesn't like a NULL pointer, it's damn
well got an error path to report that fact. Use that mechanism and
stop needlessly killing the kernel.

BUG_ON() IS NOT ASSERT(). DO NOT USE IT AS SUCH.

Linus is absolutely right about BUG_ON() - it hurts debuggability,
because now the only way to do further tests is to reboot the damned
machine after removing those fscking BUG_ON()s that should *never*
have been there in the first place.

As Linus went on to say:

And dammit, if anybody else feels that they had done "debugging
messages with BUG_ON()", I would suggest you

(a) rethink your approach to programming

(b) send me patches to remove the crap entirely, or make them real
*DEBUGGING* messages, not "kill the whole machine" messages.

I've ranted against people using BUG_ON() for debugging in the past.
Why the f*ck does this still happen? And Andrew - please stop taking
those kinds of patches! Lookie here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/13183/

so excuse me for being upset that people still do this shit almost 15
years later.

So I suggest people heed that advice and start fixing these stupid
BUG_ON()s that they've created.

Thanks.

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