[PATCH v3] coresight: Fix possible deadlock in coresight_panic_cb
Leo Yan
leo.yan at arm.com
Tue Sep 16 09:55:10 PDT 2025
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 05:42:07PM +0100, Suzuki Kuruppassery Poulose wrote:
[...]
> > > Well, if you are going that far, why not register the notifier from
> > > coresight-core ?
> >
> > I have thought this but gave up.
> >
> > When register a panic's notifier, it does not provide an argument for
> > passing a private data. So the code below uses container_of() to convert
> > notifier block pointer to the TMC driver data, as a result, the code is
> > specific to TMC driver.
>
> notifier_block in csdev ?
csdev is a common structure, some devices may never use the notifier.
This is the reason I thought it is fine to put notifier into TMC's
driver data, as this can meet current requirement perfectly.
Thanks,
Leo
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