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From: shawn.guo@freescale.com (Shawn Guo)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: mxs: Allow for recursive enable_irq_wake() call
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:34:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140324043421.GA10180@dragon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395628690-7225-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de>

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 03:38:10AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The scenario here is that someone calls enable_irq_wake() from somewhere
> in the code. This will result in the lockdep producing a backtrace as can
> be seen below. In my case, this problem is triggered when using the wl1271
> (TI WlCore) driver found in drivers/net/wireless/ti/ .
> 
> The problem cause is rather obvious from the backtrace, but let's outline
> the dependency. enable_irq_wake() grabs the IRQ buslock in irq_set_irq_wake(),
> which in turns calls mxs_gpio_set_wake_irq() . But mxs_gpio_set_wake_irq()
> calls enable_irq_wake() again on the one-level-higher IRQ , thus it tries to
> grab the IRQ buslock again in irq_set_irq_wake() . Because the spinlock in
> irq_set_irq_wake()->irq_get_desc_buslock()->__irq_get_desc_lock() is not
> marked as recursive, lockdep will spew the stuff below.
> 
> We know we can safely re-enter the lock, so use IRQ_GC_INIT_NESTED_LOCK to
> fix the spew.

...

> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-24  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24  2:38 [PATCH] gpio: mxs: Allow for recursive enable_irq_wake() call Marek Vasut
2014-03-24  4:34 ` Shawn Guo [this message]
2014-03-27  9:15 ` Linus Walleij
2014-04-09 14:26   ` Shawn Guo
2014-04-10 18:20     ` Linus Walleij

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