[PATCH v3 2/3] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Simplify locking by eliminating the per-TCS lock

From: Douglas Anderson
Date: Tue Apr 21 2020 - 13:29:53 EST


The rpmh-rsc code had both a driver-level lock (sometimes referred to
in comments as drv->lock) and a lock per-TCS. The idea was supposed
to be that there would be times where you could get by with just
locking a TCS lock and therefor other RPMH users wouldn't be blocked.

The above didn't work out so well.

Looking at tcs_write() the bigger drv->lock was held for most of the
function anyway. Only the __tcs_buffer_write() and
__tcs_set_trigger() calls were called without it the drv->lock. It
actually turns out that in tcs_write() we don't need to hold the
drv->lock for those function calls anyway even if the per-TCS lock
isn't there anymore. Thus, from a tcs_write() point of view, the
per-TCS lock was useless.

Looking at rpmh_rsc_write_ctrl_data(), only the per-TCS lock was held.
It turns out, though, that this function already needs to be called
with the equivalent of the drv->lock held anyway (we either need to
hold drv->lock as we will in a future patch or we need to know no
other CPUs could be running as happens today). Specifically
rpmh_rsc_write_ctrl_data() might be writing to a TCS that has been
borrowed for writing an active transation but it never checks this.

Let's eliminate this extra overhead and avoid possible AB BA locking
headaches.

Suggested-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v3:
- ("soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Simplify locking...") new for v3.

Changes in v2: None

drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-internal.h | 13 ++------
drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-rsc.c | 54 ++++++++++++++------------------
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-internal.h b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-internal.h
index dba8510c0669..1f2857b3f38e 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-internal.h
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-internal.h
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ struct rsc_drv;
* @offset: Start of the TCS group relative to the TCSes in the RSC.
* @num_tcs: Number of TCSes in this type.
* @ncpt: Number of commands in each TCS.
- * @lock: Lock for synchronizing this TCS writes.
* @req: Requests that are sent from the TCS; only used for ACTIVE_ONLY
* transfers (could be on a wake/sleep TCS if we are borrowing for
* an ACTIVE_ONLY transfer).
@@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ struct tcs_group {
u32 offset;
int num_tcs;
int ncpt;
- spinlock_t lock;
const struct tcs_request *req[MAX_TCS_PER_TYPE];
DECLARE_BITMAP(slots, MAX_TCS_SLOTS);
};
@@ -103,14 +101,9 @@ struct rpmh_ctrlr {
* @tcs_in_use: S/W state of the TCS; only set for ACTIVE_ONLY
* transfers, but might show a sleep/wake TCS in use if
* it was borrowed for an active_only transfer. You
- * must hold both the lock in this struct and the
- * tcs_lock for the TCS in order to mark a TCS as
- * in-use, but you only need the lock in this structure
- * (aka the drv->lock) to mark one freed.
- * @lock: Synchronize state of the controller. If you will be
- * grabbing this lock and a tcs_lock at the same time,
- * grab the tcs_lock first so we always have a
- * consistent lock ordering.
+ * must hold the lock in this struct (AKA drv->lock) in
+ * order to update this.
+ * @lock: Synchronize state of the controller.
* @pm_lock: Synchronize during PM notifications.
* Used when solver mode is not present.
* @client: Handle to the DRV's client.
diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-rsc.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-rsc.c
index a9e15699f55f..992c79920e69 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-rsc.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh-rsc.c
@@ -179,11 +179,7 @@ static void write_tcs_reg_sync(struct rsc_drv *drv, int reg, int tcs_id,
*
* Returns true if nobody has claimed this TCS (by setting tcs_in_use).
*
- * Context: Must be called with the drv->lock held or the tcs_lock for the TCS
- * being tested. If only the tcs_lock is held then it is possible that
- * this function will return that a tcs is still busy when it has been
- * recently been freed but it will never return free when a TCS is
- * actually in use.
+ * Context: Must be called with the drv->lock held.
*
* Return: true if the given TCS is free.
*/
@@ -242,8 +238,6 @@ void rpmh_rsc_invalidate(struct rsc_drv *drv)
* This is normally pretty straightforward except if we are trying to send
* an ACTIVE_ONLY message but don't have any active_only TCSes.
*
- * Called without drv->lock held and with no tcs_lock locks held.
- *
* Return: A pointer to a tcs_group or an ERR_PTR.
*/
static struct tcs_group *get_tcs_for_msg(struct rsc_drv *drv,
@@ -581,24 +575,19 @@ static int tcs_write(struct rsc_drv *drv, const struct tcs_request *msg)
if (IS_ERR(tcs))
return PTR_ERR(tcs);

- spin_lock_irqsave(&tcs->lock, flags);
- spin_lock(&drv->lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&drv->lock, flags);
/*
* The h/w does not like if we send a request to the same address,
* when one is already in-flight or being processed.
*/
ret = check_for_req_inflight(drv, tcs, msg);
- if (ret) {
- spin_unlock(&drv->lock);
- goto done_write;
- }
+ if (ret)
+ goto err;

- tcs_id = find_free_tcs(tcs);
- if (tcs_id < 0) {
- ret = tcs_id;
- spin_unlock(&drv->lock);
- goto done_write;
- }
+ ret = find_free_tcs(tcs);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err;
+ tcs_id = ret;

tcs->req[tcs_id - tcs->offset] = msg;
set_bit(tcs_id, drv->tcs_in_use);
@@ -612,13 +601,21 @@ static int tcs_write(struct rsc_drv *drv, const struct tcs_request *msg)
write_tcs_reg_sync(drv, RSC_DRV_CMD_WAIT_FOR_CMPL, tcs_id, 0);
enable_tcs_irq(drv, tcs_id, true);
}
- spin_unlock(&drv->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drv->lock, flags);

+ /*
+ * These two can be done after the lock is released because:
+ * - We marked "tcs_in_use" under lock.
+ * - Once "tcs_in_use" has been marked nobody else could be writing
+ * to these registers until the interrupt goes off.
+ * - The interrupt can't go off until we trigger.
+ */
__tcs_buffer_write(drv, tcs_id, 0, msg);
__tcs_set_trigger(drv, tcs_id, true);

-done_write:
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tcs->lock, flags);
+ return 0;
+err:
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drv->lock, flags);
return ret;
}

@@ -673,8 +670,6 @@ int rpmh_rsc_send_data(struct rsc_drv *drv, const struct tcs_request *msg)
* Only for use on sleep/wake TCSes since those are the only ones we maintain
* tcs->slots for.
*
- * Must be called with the tcs_lock for the group held.
- *
* Return: -ENOMEM if there was no room, else 0.
*/
static int find_slots(struct tcs_group *tcs, const struct tcs_request *msg,
@@ -709,25 +704,25 @@ static int find_slots(struct tcs_group *tcs, const struct tcs_request *msg,
* This should only be called for for sleep/wake state, never active-only
* state.
*
+ * The caller must ensure that no other RPMH actions are happening and the
+ * controller is idle when this function is called since it runs lockless.
+ *
* Return: 0 if no error; else -error.
*/
int rpmh_rsc_write_ctrl_data(struct rsc_drv *drv, const struct tcs_request *msg)
{
struct tcs_group *tcs;
int tcs_id = 0, cmd_id = 0;
- unsigned long flags;
int ret;

tcs = get_tcs_for_msg(drv, msg);
if (IS_ERR(tcs))
return PTR_ERR(tcs);

- spin_lock_irqsave(&tcs->lock, flags);
/* find the TCS id and the command in the TCS to write to */
ret = find_slots(tcs, msg, &tcs_id, &cmd_id);
if (!ret)
__tcs_buffer_write(drv, tcs_id, cmd_id, msg);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tcs->lock, flags);

return ret;
}
@@ -756,8 +751,8 @@ static bool rpmh_rsc_ctrlr_is_busy(struct rsc_drv *drv)
* should be checked for not busy, because we used wake TCSes for
* active requests in this case.
*
- * Since this is called from the last cpu, need not take drv or tcs
- * lock before checking tcs_is_free().
+ * Since this is called from the last cpu, need not take drv->lock
+ * before checking tcs_is_free().
*/
if (!tcs->num_tcs)
tcs = &drv->tcs[WAKE_TCS];
@@ -879,7 +874,6 @@ static int rpmh_probe_tcs_config(struct platform_device *pdev,
tcs->type = tcs_cfg[i].type;
tcs->num_tcs = tcs_cfg[i].n;
tcs->ncpt = ncpt;
- spin_lock_init(&tcs->lock);

if (!tcs->num_tcs || tcs->type == CONTROL_TCS)
continue;
--
2.26.1.301.g55bc3eb7cb9-goog