[PATCH] mtd: nand: fix shutdown/reboot for multi-chip systems

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 16:37:28 PST 2015


If multiple NAND chips are registered to the same controller, then when
rebooting the system, the first one will grab the controller lock, while
the second will wait forever for the first one to release it. i.e., a
classic deadlock.

This problem was solved for a similar case (suspend/resume) back in
commit 6b0d9a841249 ("mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem"), and
the shutdown state really isn't much different for us, so rather than
adding a new special case to nand_get_device(), we can just overload the
FL_PM_SUSPENDED state.

Now, multiple chips can "get" the same controller lock (preventing
further I/O), while we still allow other chips to pass through
nand_shutdown().

Original report:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/59726
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-July/059992.html

Fixes: 72ea403669c7 ("mtd: nand: added nand_shutdown")
Reported-by: Andrew E. Mileski <andrewm at isoar.ca>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
Cc: Andrew E. Mileski <andrewm at isoar.ca>
---
I only compile-tested

If we get proper tests, this is probably 4.4 material

 drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index cc74142938b0..ece544efccc3 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -3110,7 +3110,7 @@ static void nand_resume(struct mtd_info *mtd)
  */
 static void nand_shutdown(struct mtd_info *mtd)
 {
-	nand_get_device(mtd, FL_SHUTDOWN);
+	nand_get_device(mtd, FL_PM_SUSPENDED);
 }
 
 /* Set default functions */
-- 
2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0




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