Hi Hoan, On 10/14/2016 4:52 PM, Hoan Tran wrote: > This patch fixes the lockdep warning below > > [ 7.229767] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) > [ 7.229776] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 7.229787] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at linux-next/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2876 loc > kdep_trace_alloc+0xe0/0xf0 > [ 7.229790] Modules linked in: > [ 7.229793] > [ 7.229798] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.8.0-11756-g86c5152 #46 > ... > [ 7.229900] Call trace: > [ 7.229903] Exception stack(0xffff8007da837890 to 0xffff8007da8379c0) > [ 7.229906] 7880: ffff8007da834000 0001000000000000 > [ 7.229909] 78a0: ffff8007da837a70 ffff0000081111a0 00000000600000c5 000000000000003d > [ 7.229912] 78c0: 9374bc6a7f3c7832 0000000000381878 ffff000009db7ab8 000000000000002f > [ 7.229915] 78e0: ffff00000811aabc ffff000008be2548 ffff8007da837990 ffff00000811adf8 > [ 7.229918] 7900: ffff8007da834000 00000000024080c0 00000000000000c0 ffff000009021000 > [ 7.229921] 7920: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff000008c8f7c8 ffff8007da579810 > [ 7.229923] 7940: 000000000000002f ffff8007da858000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 > [ 7.229926] 7960: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff00000811a468 0000000000000002 > [ 7.229929] 7980: 656c62617369645f 0000000000038187 00000000000000ee ffff8007da837850 > [ 7.229932] 79a0: ffff000009db50c0 ffff000009db569d 0000000000000006 ffff000089db568f > [ 7.229936] [<ffff0000081111a0>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xe0/0xf0 > [ 7.229940] [<ffff0000081f4950>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x50/0x250 > [ 7.229945] [<ffff00000857c088>] devres_alloc_node+0x28/0x60 > [ 7.229949] [<ffff0000081220e0>] devm_request_threaded_irq+0x50/0xe0 > [ 7.229955] [<ffff0000087e6220>] pcc_mbox_request_channel+0x110/0x170 > [ 7.229960] [<ffff0000084b2660>] acpi_cppc_processor_probe+0x264/0x414 > [ 7.229963] [<ffff0000084ae9f4>] __acpi_processor_start+0x28/0xa0 > [ 7.229966] [<ffff0000084aeab0>] acpi_processor_start+0x44/0x54 > [ 7.229970] [<ffff00000857897c>] driver_probe_device+0x1fc/0x2b0 > [ 7.229974] [<ffff000008578ae4>] __driver_attach+0xb4/0xc0 > [ 7.229977] [<ffff00000857683c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0xa0 > [ 7.229980] [<ffff000008578110>] driver_attach+0x20/0x30 > [ 7.229983] [<ffff000008577c20>] bus_add_driver+0x110/0x230 > [ 7.229987] [<ffff000008579320>] driver_register+0x60/0x100 > [ 7.229991] [<ffff000008d478b8>] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x2c/0xb0 > [ 7.229996] [<ffff000008083168>] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x130 > [ 7.230000] [<ffff000008d20d6c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x2b4 > [ 7.230004] [<ffff000008945d90>] kernel_init+0x10/0x110 > [ 7.230007] [<ffff000008082e80>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50 > > It's because the spinlock inside pcc_mbox_request_channel() is > kept too long. Adding a mutex to protect critical section of this > function. Beside of that, spinlock is still used to protect the > data of channel. > > Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/mailbox/pcc.c | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c > index 08c87fa..b6cece0 100644 > --- a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c > +++ b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c > @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ > static int *pcc_doorbell_irq; > > static struct mbox_controller pcc_mbox_ctrl = {}; > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcc_con_mutex); I am not sure this will work. If we are not taking the channel lock, we don't have a good way to synchronize with the mailbox framework while we are accessing the same data. Why don't we just move out the devm_request_irq and devm_free_irq outside the critical section? In pcc_mbox_request_channel, we can call devm_request_irq after releasing the spin_lock and in pcc_mbox_free_channel we can call devm_free_irq and then take the spin_lock to access the shared data. -- Thanks, Prashanth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html