Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexander Stein <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] regmap: regcache-rbtree: Use GFP_ATOMIC when using spinlocks | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:04:05 +0200 |
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On Thursday 16 July 2015 20:06:57, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:48:52PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: > > > When regmap locking is done using spinlocks (e.g. using > > devm_regmap_init_mmio_clk) access is protected using spin_lock_irqsave. > > So when calling regmap_write the first time and a node is about to be > > inserted kzalloc must not be called with GFP_KERNEL. At this point > > The expectation here is that we should either be using no or a flat > cache here or (if we're using rbtree) providing register defaults to > ensure that we never do allocations in the spinlock. The rbtree code is > written on the assumption that we only have to be faster than reading > from a serial bus so I'd be worried about it not behaving at all nicely > in a spinlock even ignoring this issue.
AFAICS even a flat cache seems also only be usefull when providing defaults, no? (Or having volatile registers). So how to handle this properly? Bail out, if fast_io is available and cache_type != (REGCACHE_NONE || REGCACHE_FLAT)?
> Why are you using a dynamically allocated rbtree for a device like this?
On my way home, I came to the same question. In fact this is not a driver written by myself, but from here http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/ppc/sdk/linux.git/tree/drivers/video/fsl-dcu-fb.c#n1024. I guess as this is a mmio device and things like regcache_cache_only() are used, REGCACHE_FLAT seems appropriate.
> > interrupts are disabled. This fixes the following warning: > > [ 8.605433] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 130 at kernel/lockdep.c:2740 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x124/0x128() > > [ 8.614096] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) > > Please don't paste entire backtraces into commit messages, they're > enormous and don't add any value. If you feel a backtrace is useful > edit down the relevant context.
Thanks, noted.
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