[PATCH v2 4/4] clk: Use ww_mutexes for clk_prepare_{lock/unlock}
Peter De Schrijver
pdeschrijver at nvidia.com
Fri Oct 10 01:24:34 PDT 2014
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:59:23PM -0700, Mike Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Boyd (2014-10-07 18:09:22)
> > On 09/29/2014 05:12 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > I'm also auditing clock
> > > drivers to find potential brokenness.
> > >
> >
> > These are places where we re-enter the framework under drivers/clk/. It
> > looks like sirf can be ported to use determine_rate() and something like
> > my "safe parent" patch. Tegra is concerning given that they call
> > clk_get_rate() in atomic context which is bad because that
> > clk_get_rate() can sleep on the prepare mutex. Otherwise we can probably
> > just convert that to use the unlocked variants. I'm aware of the qcom
> > one, maybe we need a framework flag that indicates that all parent
> > clocks must be enabled to switch this clock's parent. The last one is
> > versatile which I hope we can convert to use assigned-rates?
>
> +Barry for SiRF
> +Sachin for Versatile
> +Viresh for SPEaR
> +Peter for Tegra
>
> For those just joining the thread, Stephen's proposal to replace the
> global clk_prepare mutex with per-clock ww_mutexes breaks the reentrant
> behavior of the clock framework. He has identified the below spots where
> clock drivers rely on reentering into the framework. Can you take a look
> at them and see if it is possible to handle it another way?
>
> I'm pretty happy to get rid of reentrancy for two reasons:
>
> 1) Stephen's patch fixes the "spi deadlock problem", which reentrancy
> did not solve. Reentrancy only solved the "i2c deadlock problem" which
> the ww_mutex approach also solves nicely.
>
> 2) The current reentrancy scheme does not take advantage of lockdep for
> checking correctness. It is very possible to silent hang yourself
> (though I've not seen any reports of that ... yet).
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> >
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:409: ret1 = clk_set_parent(hw->clk,
> > clk_pll1.hw.clk);
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:414: ret1 = clk_set_parent(hw->clk,
> > clk_pll2.hw.clk);
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:419: ret1 = clk_set_parent(hw->clk,
> > clk_pll3.hw.clk);
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:427: ret1 = clk_set_parent(hw->clk,
> > clk_pll2.hw.clk);
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:433: ret1 = clk_set_parent(hw->clk,
> > clk_pll1.hw.clk);
> > drivers/clk/versatile/clk-sp810.c:103: clk_set_parent(hw->clk, new_parent);
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:431: ret2 =
> > clk_set_rate(clk_pll1.hw.clk, rate);
> > drivers/clk/qcom/mmcc-msm8960.c:520: ret =
> > clk_prepare_enable(clk_get_parent_by_index(clk, i));
> > drivers/clk/qcom/mmcc-msm8960.c:549:
> > clk_disable_unprepare(clk_get_parent_by_index(clk, i));
> > Not necessary? drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:168: struct clk
> > *parent_clk = clk_get_parent(hw->clk);
> > Not necessary? drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:169: struct clk
> > *pll_parent_clk = clk_get_parent(parent_clk);
> > Not necessary! drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:181: struct clk
> > *parent_clk = clk_get_parent(hw->clk);
> > drivers/clk/sirf/clk-common.c:423: cur_parent = clk_get_parent(hw->clk);
> > drivers/clk/spear/clk-vco-pll.c:90:
> > __clk_get_rate(__clk_get_parent(__clk_get_parent(hw->clk)));
> > drivers/clk/tegra/clk-pll.c:732: unsigned long input_rate =
> > clk_get_rate(clk_get_parent(hw->clk));
> > drivers/clk/tegra/clk-pll.c:1288: unsigned long input_rate =
> > clk_get_rate(clk_get_parent(hw->clk));
This is not so easy to change unfortunately. I will have to think of a solution.
Cheers,
Peter.
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