Re: [PATCH 3/15] qd65xx: fix deadlock on error handling

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

Stop abusing ide_lock lock (switch to a private locking).

Fixes same issue as fixed by Alan Cox in atiixp host driver with
commit 6c5f8cc33eb2e10b6ab788bbe259fc142a068627.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: b/drivers/ide/legacy/qd65xx.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/legacy/qd65xx.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/legacy/qd65xx.c
@@ -89,13 +89,15 @@
static int timings[4]={-1,-1,-1,-1}; /* stores current timing for each timer */ +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(qd65xx_lock);
+
 static void qd_write_reg (u8 content, unsigned long reg)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&qd65xx_lock, flags);
 	outb(content,reg);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qd65xx_lock, flags);
 }
static u8 __init qd_read_reg (unsigned long reg)
@@ -103,9 +105,9 @@ static u8 __init qd_read_reg (unsigned l
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u8 read;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&qd65xx_lock, flags);
 	read = inb(reg);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qd65xx_lock, flags);
 	return read;
 }

I don't see why all the locking above is needed at all -- isn't these atomic functions? :-/

@@ -301,16 +303,15 @@ static void qd6580_set_pio_mode(ide_driv
static int __init qd_testreg(int port)
 {
-	u8 savereg;
-	u8 readreg;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	u8 savereg, readreg;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&qd65xx_lock, flags);
 	savereg = inb_p(port);
 	outb_p(QD_TESTVAL, port);	/* safe value */
 	readreg = inb_p(port);
 	outb(savereg, port);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qd65xx_lock, flags);
if (savereg == QD_TESTVAL) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Outch ! the probe for qd65xx isn't reliable !\n");

Heh, 486 with VLB hardly needed spinlocks at all... although there *were* 486 SMP machines -- with external LAPICs.

MBR, Sergei
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