Re: [PATCH 1/9] coresight: change coresight_device lock type to raw_spinlock_t

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:48:08 +0000
Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> wrote:

> @@ -853,17 +851,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cscfg_unregister_csdev);
>  void cscfg_csdev_reset_feats(struct coresight_device *csdev)
>  {
>  	struct cscfg_feature_csdev *feat_csdev;
> -	unsigned long flags;
>  
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock, flags);
> +	guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock);
> +
>  	if (list_empty(&csdev->feature_csdev_list))
> -		goto unlock_exit;
> +		return;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(feat_csdev, &csdev->feature_csdev_list, node)
>  		cscfg_reset_feat(feat_csdev);

We should start documenting what is not real-time "safe". That is, if this
code is executed, we have a loop here that holds a raw spin lock. This
appears to make the time the raw spin lock held to be non deterministic.

If someone is running PREEMPT_RT and expects deterministic behavior, they
cannot be using this code. That is fine, but we should probably create a
document somewhere that notes this.

-- Steve


> -
> -unlock_exit:
> -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock, flags);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cscfg_csdev_reset_feats);
>