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From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
	Jan Dabros <jsd@semihalf.com>, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: designware: Avoid taking clk_prepare mutex in PM callbacks
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:33:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aKX4xEYE29JC_g14@xhacker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aKXyVvFOvpsaAEAB@smile.fi.intel.com>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 07:05:42PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:31:24PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > This is unsafe, as the runtime PM callbacks are called from the PM
> > workqueue, so this may deadlock when handling an i2c attached clock,
> > which may already hold the clk_prepare mutex from another context.
> 
> Can you be more specific? What is the actual issue in practice?
> Do you have traces and lockdep warnings?

Assume we use i2c designware to control any i2c based clks, e.g the
clk-si5351.c driver. In its .clk_prepare, we'll get the prepare_lock
mutex, then we call i2c adapter to operate the regs, to runtime resume
the i2c adapter, we call clk_prepare_enable() which will try to get
the prepare_lock mutex again.

Regards.

> 
> AFAICS it seems related to the bus recovery mechanism. Is this what you have in
> mind?
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-20 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-20 15:31 [PATCH 0/2] i2c: designware: Implement atomic transfer suppot Jisheng Zhang
2025-08-20 15:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] i2c: designware: Avoid taking clk_prepare mutex in PM callbacks Jisheng Zhang
2025-08-20 16:05   ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-08-20 16:33     ` Jisheng Zhang [this message]
2025-08-21 12:45       ` Jarkko Nikula
2025-08-21 13:01         ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-08-21 16:32           ` Jisheng Zhang
2025-08-22  9:18             ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-08-22  9:34               ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-08-22 13:56                 ` Jisheng Zhang
2025-08-22 23:51                 ` Jisheng Zhang
2025-08-20 15:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: Implement atomic transfer suppot Jisheng Zhang
2025-08-20 17:00   ` Andy Shevchenko

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