Hi, In case when hwmods are used in nested way the lockdep validator will print out a warning message about possible deadlock situation: [ 4.514882] ============================================= [ 4.520530] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] [ 4.526176] 3.14.30-00289-ge44872fdca8f-dirty #198 Not tainted [ 4.532285] --------------------------------------------- [ 4.537936] kworker/u4:1/18 is trying to acquire lock: [ 4.543317] (&(&oh->_lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<c002d2dc>] omap_hwmod_enable+0x2c/0x58 [ 4.552109] [ 4.552109] but task is already holding lock: [ 4.558216] (&(&oh->_lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<c002d2dc>] omap_hwmod_enable+0x2c/0x58 [ 4.566999] [ 4.566999] other info that might help us debug this: [ 4.573831] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 4.573831] [ 4.580025] CPU0 [ 4.582584] ---- [ 4.585142] lock(&(&oh->_lock)->rlock); [ 4.589544] lock(&(&oh->_lock)->rlock); [ 4.593945] [ 4.593945] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 4.593945] [ 4.600146] May be due to missing lock nesting notation What lockdep did not realizes is that the two oh is not the same hwmod object and we have taken different locks. One example of nested hwmod usage is on DRA7xx platforms, where McASP can be configured to use ATL clock as it's functional clock. In this case the pm_runtime_get/put_sync call will enable the mcasp hwmod and as part of this operation it will enable the needed clocks. Since ATL clock is needed, we will have another pm_runtime operation from the ATL clock enable callback which will take the atl hwmod's lock. This will be seen by lockdep as possible deadlock situation. In order to notify lockdep about this, we need to switch using _nested version of locking function and assign different subclass to those hwmods which could be used in nested way. Regards, Peter --- Peter Ujfalusi (2): ARM: omap2+: omap_hwmod: Use _nested version of spinlock for oh->_lock ARM: DRA7: hwmod_data: Change locked_class for atl hwmod arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c | 16 ++++++++-------- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.h | 5 +++++ arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_7xx_data.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html