[PATCH v2] i2c: rk3x: fix potential spinlock recursion on poll

Jensen Huang jensenhuang at friendlyarm.com
Thu Dec 7 01:25:44 PST 2023


On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 4:37 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-12-07 09:21, Jensen Huang wrote:
> > Possible deadlock scenario (on reboot):
> > rk3x_i2c_xfer_common(polling)
> >     -> rk3x_i2c_wait_xfer_poll()
> >         -> rk3x_i2c_irq(0, i2c);
> >             --> spin_lock(&i2c->lock);
> >             ...
> >         <rk3x i2c interrupt>
> >         -> rk3x_i2c_irq(0, i2c);
> >             --> spin_lock(&i2c->lock); (deadlock here)
> >
> > Store the IRQ number and disable/enable it around the polling transfer.
> > This patch has been tested on NanoPC-T4.
>
> In case you haven't already seen the related discussion linked below,
> please have a look.  I also added more people to the list of recipients,
> in an attempt to make everyone aware of the different approaches to
> solving this issue.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/655177f4.050a0220.d85c9.3ba0@mx.google.com/T/#m6fc9c214452fec6681843e7f455978c35c6f6c8b

Thank you for providing the information. I hadn't seen this link before.
After carefully looking into the related discussion, it appears that
Dmitry Osipenko is already working on a suitable patch. To avoid duplication
or conflicts, my patch can be discarded.

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Best regards,
Jensen



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