Hi Baolin and Geert, Geert - thanks for the heads-up. Baolin - thanks for the quick fix. Applied to the fixes-for-4.20-rc2 branch of linux-leds.git Best regards, Jacek Anaszewski On 11/07/2018 08:59 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Baolin, > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 6:43 AM Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We will meet below issue due to mutex_lock() is called in interrupt context. >> The mutex lock is used to protect the pattern trigger data, but before changing >> new pattern trigger data (pattern values or repeat value) by users, we always >> cancel the timer firstly to clear previous patterns' performance. That means >> there is no race in pattern_trig_timer_function(), so we can drop the mutex >> lock in pattern_trig_timer_function() to avoid this issue. >> >> Moreover we can move the timer cancelling into mutex protection, since there >> is no deadlock risk if we remove the mutex lock in pattern_trig_timer_function(). >> >> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:254 >> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1 >> CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted >> 4.20.0-rc1-koelsch-00841-ga338c8181013c1a9 #171 >> Hardware name: Generic R-Car Gen2 (Flattened Device Tree) >> [<c020f19c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c020aecc>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) >> [<c020aecc>] (show_stack) from [<c07affb8>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x9c) >> [<c07affb8>] (dump_stack) from [<c02417d4>] (___might_sleep+0xf4/0x158) >> [<c02417d4>] (___might_sleep) from [<c07c92c4>] (mutex_lock+0x18/0x60) >> [<c07c92c4>] (mutex_lock) from [<c067b28c>] (pattern_trig_timer_function+0x1c/0x11c) >> [<c067b28c>] (pattern_trig_timer_function) from [<c027f6fc>] (call_timer_fn+0x1c/0x90) >> [<c027f6fc>] (call_timer_fn) from [<c027f944>] (expire_timers+0x94/0xa4) >> [<c027f944>] (expire_timers) from [<c027fc98>] (run_timer_softirq+0x108/0x15c) >> [<c027fc98>] (run_timer_softirq) from [<c02021cc>] (__do_softirq+0x1d4/0x258) >> [<c02021cc>] (__do_softirq) from [<c0224d24>] (irq_exit+0x64/0xc4) >> [<c0224d24>] (irq_exit) from [<c0268dd0>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x80/0xb4) >> [<c0268dd0>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<c045e1b0>] (gic_handle_irq+0x58/0x90) >> [<c045e1b0>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c02019f8>] (__irq_svc+0x58/0x74) >> Exception stack(0xeb483f60 to 0xeb483fa8) >> 3f60: 00000000 00000000 eb9afaa0 c0217e80 00000000 ffffe000 00000000 c0e06408 >> 3f80: 00000002 c0e0647c c0c6a5f0 00000000 c0e04900 eb483fb0 c0207ea8 c0207e98 >> 3fa0: 60020013 ffffffff >> [<c02019f8>] (__irq_svc) from [<c0207e98>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x1c/0x38) >> [<c0207e98>] (arch_cpu_idle) from [<c0247ca8>] (do_idle+0x138/0x268) >> [<c0247ca8>] (do_idle) from [<c0248050>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x18/0x1c) >> [<c0248050>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<402022ec>] (0x402022ec) >> >> Fixes: 5fd752b6b3a2 ("leds: core: Introduce LED pattern trigger") >> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks! > > Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert >