On 02/11/2013 01:29 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 04:09 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On 02/06/2013 02:30 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> With the locking cleanup in place (from "OF: Fixup resursive
>>> locking code paths"), we can now do the conversion from the
>>> rw_lock to a raw spinlock as required for preempt-rt.
>>>
>>> The previous cleanup and this conversion were originally
>>> separate since they predated when mainline got raw spinlock (in
>>> commit c2f21ce2e31286a "locking: Implement new raw_spinlock").
>>>
>>> So, at that point in time, the cleanup was considered plausible
>>> for mainline, but not this conversion. In any case, we've kept
>>> them separate as it makes for easier review and better bisection.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> [PG: taken from preempt-rt, update subject & add a commit log]
>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> [v2: recent commit e81b329 ("powerpc+of: Add /proc device tree
>>> updating to of node add/remove") added two more instances of
>>> write_unlock that also needed converting to raw_spin_unlock.
>>> Retested (boot) on sbc8548, defconfig builds on arm/sparc; no
>>> new warnings observed.]
>>>
>>> arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c | 4 +-
>>> drivers/of/base.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>> include/linux/of.h | 2 +-
>>> 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>>
>> Applied.
>
> This commit is present in next-20130211, and causes a boot failure
> (hang) early while booting on Tegra. Reverting just this one commit
> solves the issue.
>
> I'll see if I can track down where the issue is. Given the commit
> description, I assume there's some new recursive lock issue that snuck
> in between the previous fix for them and this commit? Any hints welcome.
>
> One thing I wonder looking at the patch: Most paths use
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave() but a few use just raw_spin_lock(). I wonder how
> that decision was made?
I found the problem. of_get_next_available_child ->
of_device_is_available -> of_get_property -> of_get_property. An
unlocked version of of_device_is_available is needed here.
Rob
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