Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mwifiex: use spinlock for 'mwifiex_processing' in shutdown_drv

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:15:04AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:34:06AM +0000, Xinming Hu wrote:
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org
>> > > [mailto:linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Dmitry Torokhov
>> > >
>> > > Instead please remove call to mwifiex_shutdown_drv() in the main routine
>> > > and "if (adapter->mwifiex_processing)" check here.
>> > >
>> >
>> > mwifiex_main_process will be used from interrupt or workqueue.
>> > Now we have disabled interrupt and flush workqueue, so
>> > mwifiex_main_process won't be scheduled in the future.
>> > But mwifiex_main_process might just running in context of last
>> > interrupt, so we need wait current main_process complete in
>> > mwifiex_shutdown_drv.
>>
>> synchronize_irq() is your friend then.
>
> Hmm, that sounds right, but IIUC, the "interrupt context" is actually
> only used for SDIO, and for SDIO, the driver doesn't actually have
> access to the IRQ number. The MMC/SDIO layer has some extra abstraction
> around the IRQ. So this may be more difficult than it appears.
>
> Do we need a sdio_synchronize_irq() API?

Actually the ->disable_irq() method should be responsible for making
sure it does not complete while interrupt handler is running. As far
as I can see, for SDIO case, we end up calling sdio_card_irq_put()
which stops kernel thread and won't return while the thread is
running. For other interfaces we need to check. IIRC USB lacks
->disable_irq() altogether and this is something that shoudl be fixed
(by doing usb_kill_urb() at the minimum).

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry