"BUG: Invalid wait context" in ls_extirq_set_type

[Vladimir Oltean]

Hi,

Apologies for my novice level of understanding. I see a stack trace on
my system and would like to understand what is the correct way to get
rid of it.

I have a consumer of the drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c driver which
calls request_threaded_irq.

struct irq_desc has a lock which is a raw spinlock.
The __setup_irq function takes this desc->lock raw spinlock, then calls
__irq_set_trigger. Finally this calls chip->irq_set_type which is
implemented by ls_extirq_set_type.

The problem is that ls_extirq_set_type uses regmap_update_bits, which
ends up taking a non-raw spin lock, the kind that becomes sleepable on RT
(this system is not RT, but still).
So that's kind of bad, and this is what the stack trace below is saying:

[    7.530319] =============================
[    7.534316] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
[    7.538313] 5.14.0-rc6-07010-ga9b9500ffaac-dirty #603 Not tainted
[    7.544394] -----------------------------
[    7.548391] swapper/0/1 is trying to lock:
[    7.552475] ffff15fa400ef018 (syscon:110:(&syscon_config)->lock){....}-{3:3}, at: regmap_lock_spinlock+0x18/0x30
[    7.562652] other info that might help us debug this:
[    7.567690] context-{5:5}
[    7.570299] 4 locks held by swapper/0/1:
[    7.574209]  #0: ffff15fa4188e9b0 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: __driver_attach+0xf8/0x1a0
[    7.582558]  #1: ffff15fa449431b0 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: __device_attach+0x3c/0x180
[    7.590903]  #2: ffff15fa4491f688 (&desc->request_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __setup_irq+0xb8/0x790
[    7.599683]  #3: ffff15fa4491f4f8 (&irq_desc_lock_class){-...}-{2:2}, at: __setup_irq+0xdc/0x790
[    7.608462] stack backtrace:
[    7.611331] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc6-07010-ga9b9500ffaac-dirty #603
[    7.625837] Call trace:
[    7.642190]  __lock_acquire+0x91c/0x1cfc
[    7.646103]  lock_acquire.part.0+0xe4/0x220
[    7.650275]  lock_acquire+0x68/0x8c
[    7.653753]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x88/0x144
[    7.658185]  regmap_lock_spinlock+0x18/0x30
[    7.662358]  regmap_update_bits_base+0x44/0xa0
[    7.666791]  ls_extirq_set_type+0x7c/0xbc
[    7.670791]  __irq_set_trigger+0x60/0x18c
[    7.674789]  __setup_irq+0x2b0/0x790
[    7.678352]  request_threaded_irq+0xec/0x1b0
[    7.682611]  devm_request_threaded_irq+0x80/0xfc
[    7.687219]  pcf2127_probe.constprop.0+0x2e8/0x470
[    7.691999]  pcf2127_i2c_probe+0x90/0xdc
[    7.695910]  i2c_device_probe+0x320/0x360

Now, the complication is that the regmap_config for the ls-extirq driver
is not even managed by itself, it is provided by syscon_node_to_regmap().

In __regmap_init, I see the various locking options are:
- Disable locking. Again, with the regmap_config provided by the generic
  syscon driver, I think making this change would be rather overreaching.
- Use a spinlock. This is what we have now, but cannot be used from a
  context that holds a raw spinlock.
- Use a mutex. Doesn't help.
- Use a hwspinlock. Never used one, don't know what it's about?!

Either way, there seems to be no option to use a raw spinlock. "Disable
locking" sounds like the best bet, but regmap offers regmap_bulk_read()
and regmap_bulk_write() and those would be broken without locking taken
at the syscon driver level, I think?

I did google for fixes for this kind of issues that were sent in the
past, but in my limited search I did not find any other driver which
uses regmap while under a raw spinlock.

What to do?