On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:48:38AM +0100, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> From: Böszörményi Zoltán <zboszor@xxxxx>
>
> In order to make request_*muxed_region() behave more like
> mutex_lock(), a possible failure case needs to be eliminated.
> When drivers do not properly share the same I/O region, e.g.
> one is using request_region() and the other is using
> request_muxed_region(), the kernel didn't warn the user about it.
> This change modifies IORESOURCE_MUXED behaviour so it always
> goes to sleep waiting for the resuorce to be freed and the
resource
> inconsistent resource flag usage is logged with KERN_ERR.
>
> v2: Fixed checkpatch.pl warnings and extended the comment
> about request_declared_muxed_region.
>
> v3: Rebased for 4.15-rc4
>
> Signed-off-by: Zoltán Böszörményi <zboszor@xxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/resource.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
> index 05db9c4e3992..0f26f887ac33 100644
> --- a/kernel/resource.c
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -1143,6 +1143,7 @@ resource_size_t resource_alignment(struct resource *res)
> *
> * request_declared_muxed_region creates a new shared busy region
> * described in an existing resource descriptor.
> + * It only returns if it succeeded.
> *
> * release_region releases a matching busy region.
> * The region is only freed if it was allocated.
> @@ -1209,7 +1210,10 @@ struct resource *__request_declared_region(struct resource *parent,
> continue;
> }
> }
> - if (conflict->flags & flags & IORESOURCE_MUXED) {
> + if (flags & IORESOURCE_MUXED) {
> + if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_MUXED))
> + pr_err("Resource conflict between muxed \"%s\" and non-muxed \"%s\" I/O regions!\n",
> + res->name, conflict->name);
With this, the muxed resource requestor will hang since the non-muxed
requestor will not release the resource. I understand that you are trying
to get rid of the error return, but is replacing it with a hang really
better ?
> add_wait_queue(&muxed_resource_wait, &wait);
> write_unlock(&resource_lock);
> set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> --
> 2.13.6
>
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