[PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Prefer asynchronous probe

[Michael Walle]

Hi Douglas,

Am 2020-10-03 18:27, schrieb Doug Anderson:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:22 AM Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Douglas,
>> 
>> > On my system the spi_nor_probe() took ~6 ms at bootup.  That's not a
>> > lot, but every little bit adds up to a slow bootup.  While we can get
>> > this out of the boot path by making it a module, there are times where
>> > it is convenient (or even required) for this to be builtin the kernel.
>> > Let's set that we prefer async probe so that we don't block other
>> > drivers from probing while we are probing.
>> >
>> > This is a tiny little change that is almost guaranteed to be safe for
>> > anything that is able to run as a module, which SPI_NOR is.
>> > Specifically modules are already probed asynchronously.  Also: since
>> > other things in the system may have enabled asynchronous probe the
>> > system may already be doing other things during our probe.
>> >
>> > There is a small possibility that some other driver that was a client
>> > of SPI_NOR didn't handle -EPROBE_DEFER and was relying on probe
>> > ordering and only worked when the SPI_NOR and the SPI bus were
>> > builtin.  In that case the other driver has a bug that's waiting to
>> > hit and the other driver should be fixed.
>> 
>> linux-next now triggers the following warning in kernel/kmod.c:136 on 
>> my
>> board. I've bisected this to this patch.
>> 
>> kmod.c:
>>         /*
>>          * We don't allow synchronous module loading from async.  
>> Module
>>          * init may invoke async_synchronize_full() which will end up
>>          * waiting for this task which already is waiting for the 
>> module
>>          * loading to complete, leading to a deadlock.
>>          */
>>         WARN_ON_ONCE(wait && current_is_async());
>> 
>> [    1.849801] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [    1.854271] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: device is disabled, skipping
>> [    1.858753] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7 at kernel/kmod.c:136 
>> __request_module+0x3a4/0x568
>> [    1.858755] Modules linked in:
>> [    1.865028] fsl_enetc 0000:00:00.0: Adding to iommu group 1
>> [    1.872640] CPU: 1 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 
>> 5.9.0-rc6-00001-g03edda0e1eda #113
>> [    1.872642] Hardware name: Kontron SMARC-sAL28 (Single PHY) on 
>> SMARC Eval 2.0 carrier (DT)
>> [    1.872647] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
>> [    1.876013] spi-nor spi0.0: w25q32dw (4096 Kbytes)
>> [    1.881294] pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO BTYPE=--)
>> [    1.881297] pc : __request_module+0x3a4/0x568
>> [    1.881299] lr : __request_module+0x39c/0x568
>> [    1.881302] sp : ffff8000113a3920
>> [    1.925739] x29: ffff8000113a3920 x28: ffff800010c7b000
>> [    1.931068] x27: ffff00207ae05648 x26: ffff800010a41a88
>> [    1.936397] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
>> [    1.941727] x23: ffff800010c35140 x22: 0000000000000001
>> [    1.947055] x21: ffff800011149948 x20: ffff800010615bdc
>> [    1.952383] x19: 00000000ffffffff x18: 0000000000000000
>> [    1.957447] fsl_enetc 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0400 -> 0402)
>> [    1.957711] x17: ffff800010a3e618 x16: ffff800010a3e5f8
>> [    1.964175] libphy: Freescale ENETC MDIO Bus: probed
>> [    1.969238] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: ffff800011149948
>> [    1.969241] x13: ffff8000113a3918 x12: 0000000000000018
>> [    1.969245] x11: 0000000000000005 x10: 0101010101010101
>> [    1.975241] 10 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device 
>> 20c0000.spi
>> [    1.979550] x9 : ffff80001005f6a4 x8 : 0000000000000000
>> [    1.979553] x7 : 606f2c6364776865 x6 : 05041c090d431511
>> [    1.979556] x5 : 1115430d091c0405 x4 : 0000000000000000
>> [    1.979558] x3 : 6dac8d8d2dccae00 x2 : ffff800010c956e8
>> [    1.979561] x1 : ffff80001005fa58 x0 : 0000000000000001
>> [    1.979564] Call trace:
>> [    1.979571]  __request_module+0x3a4/0x568
>> [    1.984914] Creating 10 MTD partitions on "20c0000.spi":
>> [    1.990227]  parse_mtd_partitions+0x2ec/0x3c0
>> [    1.990232]  mtd_device_parse_register+0xdc/0x1c8
>> [    1.997133] 0x000000000000-0x000000010000 : "rcw"
>> [    2.002454]  spi_nor_probe+0x29c/0x2f0
>> [    2.002458]  spi_mem_probe+0x74/0xb0
>> [    2.017759] 0x000000010000-0x000000100000 : "failsafe bootloader"
>> [    2.018433]  spi_drv_probe+0x88/0xe8
>> [    2.018439]  really_probe+0xec/0x3c0
>> [    2.033744] 0x000000100000-0x000000140000 : "failsafe DP firmware"
>> [    2.035555]  driver_probe_device+0x60/0xc0
>> [    2.035559]  __device_attach_driver+0x8c/0xd0
>> [    2.040455] 0x000000140000-0x0000001e0000 : "failsafe trusted 
>> firmware"
>> [    2.044642]  bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xd8
>> [    2.044645]  __device_attach_async_helper+0xc4/0xe8
>> [    2.044648]  async_run_entry_fn+0x4c/0x150
>> [    2.044653]  process_one_work+0x1f4/0x4b8
>> [    2.057751] 0x0000001e0000-0x000000200000 : "reserved"
>> [    2.062814]  worker_thread+0x50/0x480
>> [    2.062817]  kthread+0x160/0x168
>> [    2.062821]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x34
>> [    2.073748] 0x000000200000-0x000000210000 : "configuration store"
>> [    2.076185] ---[ end trace 44224cc02e4e53d2 ]---
>> 
>> -michael
> 
> Thanks for your report!  My vote would be to revert my patch and then
> this would need to be resolved before it could be added back in.
> Without doing tons of research, maybe the right answer here is that
> mtd_device_parse_register() should be moved into a separate task so
> it's not blocking probe?  I probably won't try to tackle this
> immediately, but the eventual goal is that async is default, so I
> think this would need to be resolved before then.

Ok. Vignesh, will you take care of that?

While debugging another issue I also noticed that sometimes my
/dev/mtdN devices were reordered. Note that I have two SPI flashes.
Might this also be connected to the async probe?

-michael