Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add devm helper for work-queue initialization

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 03:31:37PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> This series adds new devm_work_autocancel() helper.
> 
> Many drivers which use work-queues must ensure the work is not queued when
> driver is detached. Often this is done by ensuring new work is not added and
> then calling cancel_work_sync() at remove(). In many cases this also requires
> cleanup at probe error path - which is easy to forget (or get wrong).
> 
> Also the "by ensuring new work is not added" has a gotcha.
> 
> It is not strange to see devm managed IRQs scheduling work.
> Mixing this with manual wq clean-up is hard to do correctly because the
> devm is likely to free the IRQ only after the remove() is ran. So manual
> wq cancellation and devm-based IRQ management do not mix well - there is
> a short(?) time-window after the wq clean-up when IRQs are still not
> freed and may schedule new work.
> 
> When both WQs and IRQs are managed by devm things are likely to just
> work. WQs should be initialized before IRQs (when IRQs need to schedule
> work) and devm unwinds things in "FILO" order.

Wouldn't it be better to convert drivers to use threaded IRQ handlers?

> 
> This series implements wq cancellation on top of devm and replaces
> the obvious cases where only thing remove call-back in a driver does is
> cancelling the work. There might be other cases where we could switch
> more than just work cancellation to use managed version and thus get rid
> of remove or mixed (manual and devm) resource management.
> 
> Changelog v2:
>   - rebased on v5.13-rc2
>   - split the extcon-max8997 change into two. First a simple,
>     back-portable fix for omitting IRQ freeing at error path, second
>     being the devm-simpification which does not need backporting.
> 
> ---
> 
> Matti Vaittinen (5):
>   devm-helpers: Add resource managed version of work init
>   extcon: extcon-max14577: Fix potential work-queue cancellation race
>   extcon: extcon-max77693.c: Fix potential work-queue cancellation race
>   extcon: extcon-max8997: Fix IRQ freeing at error path
>   extcon: extcon-max8997: Simplify driver using devm
> 
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-max14577.c | 16 ++++--------
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-max77693.c | 17 ++++--------
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c  | 45 +++++++++++---------------------
>  include/linux/devm-helpers.h     | 25 ++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: d07f6ca923ea0927a1024dfccafc5b53b61cfecc
> -- 
> 2.25.4
> 
> 
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