Re: [PATCH] USB host: Fix lockdep warning in AMD PLL quirk

["Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:01:01AM -0400, Xu, Andiry wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roedel, Joerg [mailto:Joerg.Roedel@amd.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:51 PM
> > To: Alan Stern
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman; Sarah Sharp; Xu, Andiry; linux-usb@vger.kernel.org;
> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; stable@kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB host: Fix lockdep warning in AMD PLL quirk
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> >
> > > The counter really should be a bool: Has the chipset already been
> > > probed or not?  After all, nobody cares how many times this routine was
> > > called.
> > >
> > > > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amd_lock, flags);
> > >
> > > This code now contains a bug: You incremented the probe_count _before_
> > > doing the probe.  If another thread calls this routine right now, it
> > > will get an incorrect result.
> > >
> > > Fixing this up should be fairly easy.
> >
> > Hmm, we can get rid of the amd_lock completly if every thread uses the
> > following call-order:
> >
> >       usb_amd_find_chipset_info();
> >       usb_amd_quirk_pll_enable();
> >       usb_amd_quirk_pll_disable();
> >       usb_amd_dev_put();
> >
> 
> The correct order is:
> 
> usb_amd_find_chipset_info();
> usb_amd_quirk_pll_disable();
> usb_amd_quirk_pll_enable();
> usb_amd_dev_put();
> 
> The pair of pll disable and enable may be called for multiple times.

So we could access the data structure without any locks if we want using
atomic_t for the probe_count and isoc_reqs members. But as I've seen
meanwhile the lock still needs to protect the access to the hardware in
the usb_amd_quirk_pll() function.
So its probably not worth the work, what do you think?

Regards,

	Joerg

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