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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: hda codec unbind refcount hang
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 18:45:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YxtflWQnslMHVlU7@intel.com> (raw)

Hi Takashi,

commit 7206998f578d ("ALSA: hda: Fix potential deadlock at codec
unbinding") introduced a problem on at least one of my older machines.

The problem happens when hda_codec_driver_remove() encounters a
codec without any pcms (and thus the refcount is 1) and tries to
call refcount_dec(). Turns out refcount_dec() doesn't like to be
used for dropping the refcount to 0, and instead if spews a warning
and does its saturate thing. The subsequent wait_event() is then
permanently stuck waiting on the saturated refcount.

I've definitely seen the same kind of pattern used elsewhere
in the kernel as well, so the fact that refcount_t can't be used
to implement it is a bit of surprise to me. I guess most other
places still use atomic_t instead.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel

             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-09 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-09 15:45 Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2022-09-09 15:59 ` hda codec unbind refcount hang Takashi Iwai
2022-09-09 19:39   ` Ville Syrjälä
2022-09-10 10:22     ` Takashi Iwai
2022-09-10 11:54       ` Ville Syrjälä

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