STOP THE MADNESS

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Nov 26 11:30:32 EST 2013


Versatile PB926 is currently broken in mainline because of this, and it's
damn obvious that people are just churning out changes to "update" drivers
without testing them at all.

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1+ #652
Backtrace: 
[<c0016f0c>] (dump_backtrace) from [<c00172ac>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
 r6:c798ace0 r5:00000000 r4:c78257e0 r3:00200140
[<c0017294>] (show_stack) from [<c0329ea0>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x28)
[<c0329e80>] (dump_stack) from [<c004fa80>] (__lock_acquire+0x1c0/0x1b80)
[<c004f8c0>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c0051970>] (lock_acquire+0x6c/0x80)
 r10:00000000 r9:c0455234 r8:00000060 r7:c047d798 r6:600000d3 r5:00000000
 r4:c782c000
[<c0051904>] (lock_acquire) from [<c032e484>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x60/0x74)
 r6:c01a1100 r5:800000d3 r4:c798acd0
[<c032e424>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave) from [<c01a1100>] (pl061_irq_type+0x28/0x)
 r6:00000000 r5:00000000 r4:c798acd0
[<c01a10d8>] (pl061_irq_type) from [<c0059ef4>] (__irq_set_trigger+0x70/0x104)
 r6:00000000 r5:c01a10d8 r4:c046da1c r3:c01a10d8
[<c0059e84>] (__irq_set_trigger) from [<c005b348>] (irq_set_irq_type+0x40/0x60)
 r10:c043240c r8:00000060 r7:00000000 r6:c046da1c r5:00000060 r4:00000000
[<c005b308>] (irq_set_irq_type) from [<c01a1208>] (pl061_irq_map+0x40/0x54)
 r6:c79693c0 r5:c798acd0 r4:00000060
[<c01a11c8>] (pl061_irq_map) from [<c005d27c>] (irq_domain_associate+0xc0/0x190)
 r5:00000060 r4:c046da1c
[<c005d1bc>] (irq_domain_associate) from [<c005d604>] (irq_domain_associate_man)
 r8:00000008 r7:00000000 r6:c79693c0 r5:00000060 r4:00000000
[<c005d5d0>] (irq_domain_associate_many) from [<c005d864>] (irq_domain_add_simp)
 r8:c046578c r7:c035b72c r6:c79693c0 r5:00000060 r4:00000008 r3:00000008
[<c005d814>] (irq_domain_add_simple) from [<c01a1380>] (pl061_probe+0xc4/0x22c)
 r6:00000060 r5:c0464380 r4:c798acd0
[<c01a12bc>] (pl061_probe) from [<c01c0450>] (amba_probe+0x74/0xe0)
 r10:c043240c r9:c0455234 r8:00000000 r7:c047d7f8 r6:c047d744 r5:00000000
 r4:c0464380

This is caused by the recently introduced irq_domain_add_simple() call
being placed before the spinlock has been initialised, and guess what
the side effect of that call is.

Far from impressed.




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