On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 06:02:45PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > If an I2C GPIO multiplexer is driven by a GPIO provided by an expander > when there's a second expander using the same device driver on one of > the I2C bus segments, lockdep prints a deadlock warning when trying to > set the direction or the value of the GPIOs provided by the second > expander. > > The below diagram presents the setup: > > - - - - - > ------- --------- Bus segment 1 | | > | | | |--------------- Devices > | | SCL/SDA | | | | > | Linux |-----------| I2C MUX | - - - - - > | | | | | Bus segment 2 > | | | | |------------------- > ------- | --------- | > | | - - - - - > ------------ | MUX GPIO | | > | | | Devices > | GPIO | | | | > | Expander 1 |---- - - - - - > | | | > ------------ | SCL/SDA > | > ------------ > | | > | GPIO | > | Expander 2 | > | | > ------------ > > The reason for lockdep warning is that we take the chip->i2c_lock in > pca953x_gpio_set_value() or pca953x_gpio_direction_output() and then > come right back to pca953x_gpio_set_value() when the GPIO mux kicks > in. The locks actually protect different expanders, but for lockdep > both are of the same class, so it says: > > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 > ---- > lock(&chip->i2c_lock); > lock(&chip->i2c_lock); > > *** DEADLOCK *** > > May be due to missing lock nesting notation > > In order to get rid of the warning, retrieve the adapter nesting depth > and use it as lockdep subclass for chip->i2c_lock. > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Linus, we'd like that in 4.9. Can I get your ack for the gpio part?
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