[PATCH 09/30] coresight: cpu-debug: Replace mutex with mutex_trylock on panic notifier

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Apr 28 01:11:10 PDT 2022


Hi Guilherme,

On 27/04/2022 23:49, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> The panic notifier infrastructure executes registered callbacks when
> a panic event happens - such callbacks are executed in atomic context,
> with interrupts and preemption disabled in the running CPU and all other
> CPUs disabled. That said, mutexes in such context are not a good idea.
> 
> This patch replaces a regular mutex with a mutex_trylock safer approach;
> given the nature of the mutex used in the driver, it should be pretty
> uncommon being unable to acquire such mutex in the panic path, hence
> no functional change should be observed (and if it is, that would be
> likely a deadlock with the regular mutex).
> 
> Fixes: 2227b7c74634 ("coresight: add support for CPU debug module")
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at igalia.com>

How would you like to proceed with queuing this ? I am happy
either way. In case you plan to push this as part of this
series (I don't see any potential conflicts) :

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>



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