Re: [RESEND PATCH] soc: qcom: smp2p: Safely acquire spinlock without IRQs

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Evan Green (2020-09-29 13:30:57)
> smp2p_update_bits() should disable interrupts when it acquires its
> spinlock. This is important because without the _irqsave, a priority
> inversion can occur.
> 
> This function is called both with interrupts enabled in
> qcom_q6v5_request_stop(), and with interrupts disabled in
> ipa_smp2p_panic_notifier(). IRQ handling of spinlocks should be
> consistent to avoid the panic notifier deadlocking because it's
> sitting on the thread that's already got the lock via _request_stop().
> 
> Found via lockdep.
> 
> Fixes: 50e99641413e7 ("soc: qcom: smp2p: Qualcomm Shared Memory Point to Point")
> Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>