Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Protect updates to list_dev with mutex

Stephen Boyd
2015-11-02T19:14:40Z

On 10/31, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 30-10-15, 10:06, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > On 10/30, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > dev_opp_list_lock is used everywhere to protect device and OPP lists,
> > > but dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus() is missed somehow. And instead we used
> > > rcu-lock, which wouldn't help here as we are adding a new list_dev.
> > >
> > > This also fixes a problem where we have called kzalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL)
> > > from within rcu-lock, which isn't allowed as kzalloc can sleep when
> > > called with GFP_KERNEL.
> >
> > Care to share the splat here?
>
> I don't know what is wrong (or right) with my exynos 5250 board, but I
> didn't got any splat here even with the right config options (yes I
> should have mentioned that earlier). I have seen this at other times
> as well, while we were running after some cpufreq traces..
>
> But, the case in hand is pretty straight forward and Mike T. did get a
> splat as that's what he told me. We are calling a sleep-able function
> from rcu_lock and that's obviously wrong.

That's slightly concerning. Given that the bug is so straight
forward but we can't reproduce it doesn't instill a lot of
confidence that the patch is correct.

>
> > > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/opp/cpu.c b/drivers/base/power/opp/cpu.c
> > > index 7654c5606307..91f15b2e25ee 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/base/power/opp/cpu.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/base/power/opp/cpu.c
> > > @@ -124,12 +124,12 @@ int dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus(struct device *cpu_dev, cpumask_var_t cpumask)
> > > struct device *dev;
> > > int cpu, ret = 0;
> > >
> > > - rcu_read_lock();
> > > + mutex_lock(&dev_opp_list_lock);
> > >
> > > dev_opp = _find_device_opp(cpu_dev);
> >
> > So does _find_device_opp() need to be called with rcu_read_lock()
> > held or not? The comment above the function makes it sound like
> > we need RCU, but we don't do that here anymore.
>
> That is more for the readers, as this function is going to return a
> pointer to the device OPP, and to make sure it isn't freed behind
> their back, they need to take the RCU lock.
>
> There are other writer code paths as well, like add-opp, where we just
> take the mutex as there can't be anything stronger than that :)
>

Agreed, but the comment above the function is misleading. We
should correct that comment and/or add the lockdep checks to the
function like we have elsewhere in this file.

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