Re: [PATCH] mmc: sdhci-pxav3: fix race between runtime pm and irq

[Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>]

Dear Ulf,

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:23:29 -0800
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 21 January 2015 at 13:45, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> wrote:
> > This patch is to fix a race condition that may cause an unhandled irq,
> > which results in big sdhci interrupt numbers and endless "mmc1: got irq
> > while runtime suspended" msgs before v3.15.
> >
> > Consider following scenario:
> >
> >       CPU0                            CPU1
> >                               sdhci_pxav3_runtime_suspend()
> >                                spin_lock_irqsave(&host->lock, flags);
> >  sdhci_irq()
> >   spining on the &host->lock
> >                                host->runtime_suspended = true;
> >                                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->lock, flags);
> >   get the &host->lock
> >   runtime_suspended is true now
> >   return IRQ_NONE;
> >
> > Fix this race by using the core sdhci.c supplied
> > sdhci_runtime_suspend_host() in runtime suspend hook which will disable
> > card interrupts. We also use the sdhci_runtime_resume_host() in the
> > runtime resume hook accordingly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9+
> > ---
> >  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c | 15 ++++-----------
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c
> > b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c index 4de39fb..6975c51 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c
> > @@ -460,17 +460,15 @@ static int sdhci_pxav3_runtime_suspend(struct
> > device *dev) struct sdhci_host *host = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> >         struct sdhci_pltfm_host *pltfm_host = sdhci_priv(host);
> >         struct sdhci_pxa *pxa = pltfm_host->priv;
> > -       unsigned long flags;
> > +       int ret;
> >
> > -       spin_lock_irqsave(&host->lock, flags);
> > -       host->runtime_suspended = true;
> > -       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&host->lock, flags);
> > +       ret = sdhci_runtime_suspend_host(host);
> 
> If you get an error at this point, you shouldn't continue but instead
> just return an error. Maybe even return -EBUSY.

Thanks for reviewing. What about just return "ret" if get an error here?
Even if sdhci_runtime_suspend_host() return any error in the future, we
are still safe. I'm cooking a patch to behave like this.

> 
> Now, since sdhci_runtime_suspend_host() always returns 0 (should it be
> converted to void? ), perhaps you could ignore the error completely
> and return 0, as before?

Thanks,
Jisheng