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From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Philip Elcan <pelcan@codeaurora.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Vikram Sethi <vikrams@codeaurora.org>,
	Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@arm.com>, Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm/acpi: Fix the deadlock in function vgic_lock_rank()
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:55:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <574EE94B.6000306@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <574EBDB7.2000806@arm.com>

On 2016年06月01日 18:49, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On 01/06/16 10:54, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> spin_is_locked does not work as you expect. The function will not
>>> tell you if
>>> the lock was taken by the current CPU, but if the lock was taken by
>>> *a* CPU.
>>>
>>> It would be possible to have CPU A calling this function and have CPU
>>> B with
>>> the lock taken. So the data structure would be accessed by 2 CPUs
>>> concurrently, which is unsafe.
>>
>> Damn, you are right. I don't think we have a spin_lock function which
>> tells us if the spin_lock was taken by us.
> 
> Unfortunately not.
> 
>> The only other option I see would be duplicating route_irq_to_guest and
>> gic_route_irq_to_guest, introducing a second version of those functions
>> which assume that the rank lock was already taken. Very very ugly. I'll
>> just revert the commit and wait for better patches from Shannon.
> 
> I am working on a patch series to decouple IRQ configuration and
> routing. It should be ready soon.
> 
Thanks, Julien :)

-- 
Shannon

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-01 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-27  0:39 [PATCH] arm/acpi: Fix the deadlock in function vgic_lock_rank() Shanker Donthineni
2016-05-27 13:56 ` Julien Grall
2016-05-30 13:16   ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-05-30 19:45     ` Julien Grall
2016-05-31  0:55       ` Shannon Zhao
2016-05-31  9:40       ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-05-31 10:11         ` Julien Grall
2016-06-01  9:54           ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-06-01 10:49             ` Julien Grall
2016-06-01 13:55               ` Shannon Zhao [this message]
2016-05-31 11:37         ` Wei Liu

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