Re: [PATCH] serial: sh-sci: Use spin_{try}lock_irqsave instead of open coding version

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Daniel Wagner <wagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 40f70c03e33a ("serial: sh-sci: add locking to console write
> function to avoid SMP lockup") copied the strategy to avoid locking
> problems in conjuncture with the console from the UART8250
> driver. Instead using directly spin_{try}lock_irqsave(),
> local_irq_save() followed by spin_{try}lock() was used. While this is
> correct on mainline, for -rt it is a problem. spin_{try}lock() will
> check if it is running in a valid context. Since the local_irq_save()
> has already been executed, the context has changed and
> spin_{try}lock() will complain. The reason why spin_{try}lock()
> complains is that on -rt the spin locks are turned into mutexes and
> therefore can sleep. Sleeping with interrupts disabled is not valid.

> Cc: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
> @@ -2516,13 +2516,12 @@ static void serial_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
>         unsigned long flags;
>         int locked = 1;
>
> -       local_irq_save(flags);

Hence the below now runs with local interrupts enabled.

For checking port->sysrq or oops_in_progress that probably isn't an issue.
If oops_in_progress is set, you have other problems, and the race condition
between checking the flag and calling spin_lock{,_irqsave}() existed before,
and is hard to avoid.

For actual console printing, I think you want to keep interrupts disabled.

>         if (port->sysrq)
>                 locked = 0;
>         else if (oops_in_progress)
> -               locked = spin_trylock(&port->lock);
> +               locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
>         else
> -               spin_lock(&port->lock);
> +               spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);

Add

        if (!locked
                local_irq_save(flags)

here?

>         /* first save the SCSCR then disable the interrupts */
>         ctrl = serial_port_in(port, SCSCR);
> @@ -2539,8 +2538,7 @@ static void serial_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
>         serial_port_out(port, SCSCR, ctrl);
>
>         if (locked)
> -               spin_unlock(&port->lock);
> -       local_irq_restore(flags);
> +               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);

        else
                local_irq_restore(flags);

>  }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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