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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org,
	Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, John Keeping <john@metanate.com>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 4.12] Revert "pinctrl: rockchip: avoid hardirq-unsafe functions in irq_chip"
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 11:21:43 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1706241120360.1941@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170623224049.GP3721@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:12:49AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > which added that RCU locking stuff and thereby broke the long existing
> > bus_lock() facility of the interrupt core.
> > 
> > irq_bus_lock/unlock was explicitely made to allow sleeping locks for
> > interrupt chips which hang behind slow busses like i2c or spi. It took us
> > quite some effort to get this done and that patch broke it permanently.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what to do here. This is an ever recurring issue simply
> > because RT requires that sleeping locks can be taken inside rcu locked
> > regions. So sooner than later we need a resoilution for that problem.
> 
> The usual advice would be for 4990d4fe327b ("PM / Wakeirq: Add automated
> device wake IRQ handling") to use SRCU rather than RCU.  Is there some
> reason that won't work?

I can't see one. So yes, we should rather convert that stuff to SRCU
instead of playing ping pong forever.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-24  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-17 22:56 [4.12 REGRESSION] pinctrl: rockchip: sleeping function called from atomic context Brian Norris
2017-05-27  2:19 ` Brian Norris
2017-06-23 20:59   ` [PATCH for 4.12] Revert "pinctrl: rockchip: avoid hardirq-unsafe functions in irq_chip" Brian Norris
2017-06-23 21:10     ` Heiko Stuebner
2017-06-23 22:12     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-06-23 22:40       ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-24  9:21         ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-06-27  0:06       ` Brian Norris
2017-06-27  6:24         ` Tony Lindgren
2017-06-27  7:07           ` Brian Norris
2017-06-27  7:32             ` Tony Lindgren
2017-06-27 13:01         ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-06-27 13:06           ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-06-27 17:23             ` Brian Norris
2017-06-27 18:07               ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-06-27 13:26           ` Heiko Stübner
2017-06-27 16:35             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-06-29 13:05     ` Linus Walleij

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