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From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
To: Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>,
	bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, ohad@wizery.com
Cc: aneela@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: glink: Remove channel decouple from rpdev release
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 22:04:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d9ebbc4.1c69fb81.b45e2.25ce@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009013345.17192-1-clew@codeaurora.org>

Quoting Chris Lew (2019-10-08 18:33:45)
> If a channel is being rapidly restarted and the kobj release worker is
> busy, there is a chance the the rpdev_release function will run after
> the channel struct itself has been released.
> 
> There should not be a need to decouple the channel from rpdev in the
> rpdev release since that should only happen from the channel close
> commands.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>

Fixes tag? The whole thing sounds broken and probably is still racy in
the face of SMP given that channel->rpdev is tested for "published" or
not. Can you describe the race that you're closing more?


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From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
To: Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>,
	bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, ohad@wizery.com
Cc: aneela@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: glink: Remove channel decouple from rpdev release
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 22:04:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d9ebbc4.1c69fb81.b45e2.25ce@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009013345.17192-1-clew@codeaurora.org>

Quoting Chris Lew (2019-10-08 18:33:45)
> If a channel is being rapidly restarted and the kobj release worker is
> busy, there is a chance the the rpdev_release function will run after
> the channel struct itself has been released.
> 
> There should not be a need to decouple the channel from rpdev in the
> rpdev release since that should only happen from the channel close
> commands.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lew <clew@codeaurora.org>

Fixes tag? The whole thing sounds broken and probably is still racy in
the face of SMP given that channel->rpdev is tested for "published" or
not. Can you describe the race that you're closing more?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-09  1:33 [PATCH] rpmsg: glink: Remove channel decouple from rpdev release Chris Lew
2019-10-10  5:04 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2019-10-10  5:04   ` Stephen Boyd
2019-10-11 18:43   ` Chris Lew

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