On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:12 PM Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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() -- Piotr Wojtaszczyk Timesys
