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[v4,10/10] i2x: pnx: Use threaded irq to fix warning from del_timer_sync()

Message ID 20240620175657.358273-11-piotr.wojtaszczyk@timesys.com
State New
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Series Add audio support for LPC32XX CPUs | expand

Commit Message

Piotr Wojtaszczyk June 20, 2024, 5:56 p.m. UTC
When del_timer_sync() is called in an interrupt context it throws a warning
because of potential deadlock. Threaded irq handler fixes the potential
problem.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Wojtaszczyk <piotr.wojtaszczyk@timesys.com>
---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pnx.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Piotr Wojtaszczyk June 21, 2024, 12:08 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Andi,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:57 AM Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:56:41PM GMT, Piotr Wojtaszczyk wrote:
> > When del_timer_sync() is called in an interrupt context it throws a warning
> > because of potential deadlock. Threaded irq handler fixes the potential
> > problem.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Piotr Wojtaszczyk <piotr.wojtaszczyk@timesys.com>
>
> did you run into a lockdep splat?
>
> Anything against using del_timer(), instead? Have you tried?

I didn't get a lockdep splat but console was flooded with warnings from
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.10-rc4/kernel/time/timer.c#L1655
In the linux kernel v5.15 I didn't see these warnings.

I'm not a maintainer of the driver and I didn't do any research on
what kind of impact
would have using del_timer() instad. Maybe Vladimir Zapolskiy will know that.
Piotr Wojtaszczyk June 27, 2024, 11:05 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:12 PM Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Piotr,
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:08:03PM GMT, Piotr Wojtaszczyk wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:57 AM Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:56:41PM GMT, Piotr Wojtaszczyk wrote:
> > > > When del_timer_sync() is called in an interrupt context it throws a warning
> > > > because of potential deadlock. Threaded irq handler fixes the potential
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Piotr Wojtaszczyk <piotr.wojtaszczyk@timesys.com>
> > >
> > > did you run into a lockdep splat?
> > >
> > > Anything against using del_timer(), instead? Have you tried?
> >
> > I didn't get a lockdep splat but console was flooded with warnings from
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.10-rc4/kernel/time/timer.c#L1655
> > In the linux kernel v5.15 I didn't see these warnings.
> >
> > I'm not a maintainer of the driver and I didn't do any research on
> > what kind of impact
> > would have using del_timer() instad. Maybe Vladimir Zapolskiy will know that.
>
> Your patch is definitely correct, no doubt about that.
>
> And I don't have anything aginast changing irq handlers to
> threaded handlers. But I would be careful at doing that depending
> on the use of the controller and for accepting such change I
> would need an ack from someone who knows the device. Vladimir,
> perhaps?
>
> There are cases where using threaded handlers are not totally
> right, for example when the controller is used at early boot for
> power management handling. I don't think it's the case for this
> driver, but I can't be 100% sure.
>
> If you were able to see the flood of WARN_ON's, would be
> interesting to know how it behaves with del_timer(). Mind
> giving it a test?
>
> Thanks,
> Andi

I took some time to take a closer look at this and it turns out that the
timer is used only to exit from the wait_for_completion(), after each
del_timer_sync() there is a complete() call. So I will remove the timer
all together and replace wait_for_completion() with
wait_for_completion_timeout()
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pnx.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pnx.c
index a12525b3186b..b2ab6fb168bf 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pnx.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pnx.c
@@ -718,8 +718,8 @@  static int i2c_pnx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		ret = alg_data->irq;
 		goto out_clock;
 	}
-	ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, alg_data->irq, i2c_pnx_interrupt,
-			       0, pdev->name, alg_data);
+	ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(&pdev->dev, alg_data->irq, NULL, i2c_pnx_interrupt,
+					IRQF_ONESHOT, pdev->name, alg_data);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_clock;