On 6/19/19 4:29 AM, Keith Pyle wrote: > On 06/18/19 02:16, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> Hi Keith, >> >> On 6/18/19 6:17 AM, Keith Pyle wrote: >>> We made the suggested change, compiled, installed, and rebooted. There was some progress - test 2 (turning the HD-PVR off) no longer produces a splat. Test 1 (start capture) and test 3 (run capture >>> and trigger HD-PVR to stop streaming) both still produce a traceback (see below). Test 3 also still results in the unkillable process. >> Try the following patch. Test 2 was caused by locking when it shouldn't, test 3 was caused by not >> locking when it should :-) and I think test 1 was caused by locking when it is not allowed. >> >> Let me know if this works! >> >> Regards, >> >> Hans > Good news! With these patches, lockdep does not report any of the prior problems and the capture process does not deadlock for my test3. > > There is one item I noted: hdpvr_read has the line > > msec_to_jiffies(4000); Oops! > > that doesn't really do anything. This should be a 4 second sleep, based on our discussion back in 2014 (https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg75163.html), since the restart will > certainly fail unless the HD-PVR is given at least 3 seconds to reset after the stop. I think a msleep(4000) at that point is solving only one use-case. I assume the same problem will occur if you read() from the video device, then close() it, re-open it and read() again, all within 4 seconds. The real fix would be to store a timestamp (jiffies) when you stop streaming, and in start_streaming check if there are less than 4 seconds between the last stop and new start, and then sleep until 4 seconds have passed. Is this something you can work on and provide a patch? For now I'll post a patch fixing the deadlocks etc. so you can develop your patch for this on top. Regards, Hans
