This patch fixes the lockdep warning below [ 7.229767] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) [ 7.229776] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 7.229787] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at linux-next/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2876 loc kdep_trace_alloc+0xe0/0xf0 [ 7.229790] Modules linked in: [ 7.229793] [ 7.229798] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.8.0-11756-g86c5152 #46 ... [ 7.229900] Call trace: [ 7.229903] Exception stack(0xffff8007da837890 to 0xffff8007da8379c0) [ 7.229906] 7880: ffff8007da834000 0001000000000000 [ 7.229909] 78a0: ffff8007da837a70 ffff0000081111a0 00000000600000c5 000000000000003d [ 7.229912] 78c0: 9374bc6a7f3c7832 0000000000381878 ffff000009db7ab8 000000000000002f [ 7.229915] 78e0: ffff00000811aabc ffff000008be2548 ffff8007da837990 ffff00000811adf8 [ 7.229918] 7900: ffff8007da834000 00000000024080c0 00000000000000c0 ffff000009021000 [ 7.229921] 7920: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff000008c8f7c8 ffff8007da579810 [ 7.229923] 7940: 000000000000002f ffff8007da858000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [ 7.229926] 7960: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff00000811a468 0000000000000002 [ 7.229929] 7980: 656c62617369645f 0000000000038187 00000000000000ee ffff8007da837850 [ 7.229932] 79a0: ffff000009db50c0 ffff000009db569d 0000000000000006 ffff000089db568f [ 7.229936] [<ffff0000081111a0>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xe0/0xf0 [ 7.229940] [<ffff0000081f4950>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x50/0x250 [ 7.229945] [<ffff00000857c088>] devres_alloc_node+0x28/0x60 [ 7.229949] [<ffff0000081220e0>] devm_request_threaded_irq+0x50/0xe0 [ 7.229955] [<ffff0000087e6220>] pcc_mbox_request_channel+0x110/0x170 [ 7.229960] [<ffff0000084b2660>] acpi_cppc_processor_probe+0x264/0x414 [ 7.229963] [<ffff0000084ae9f4>] __acpi_processor_start+0x28/0xa0 [ 7.229966] [<ffff0000084aeab0>] acpi_processor_start+0x44/0x54 [ 7.229970] [<ffff00000857897c>] driver_probe_device+0x1fc/0x2b0 [ 7.229974] [<ffff000008578ae4>] __driver_attach+0xb4/0xc0 [ 7.229977] [<ffff00000857683c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0xa0 [ 7.229980] [<ffff000008578110>] driver_attach+0x20/0x30 [ 7.229983] [<ffff000008577c20>] bus_add_driver+0x110/0x230 [ 7.229987] [<ffff000008579320>] driver_register+0x60/0x100 [ 7.229991] [<ffff000008d478b8>] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x2c/0xb0 [ 7.229996] [<ffff000008083168>] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x130 [ 7.230000] [<ffff000008d20d6c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x2b4 [ 7.230004] [<ffff000008945d90>] kernel_init+0x10/0x110 [ 7.230007] [<ffff000008082e80>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50
It's because the spinlock inside pcc_mbox_request_channel() is kept too long. This patch releases spinlock before request_irq() and free_irq() to fix this issue as spinlock is only needed to protect the channel data. Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hot...@apm.com> --- v2 * Release spinlock before request_irq() and free_irq() instead of using mutex drivers/mailbox/pcc.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c index 08c87fa..b5275a8 100644 --- a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c @@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ struct mbox_chan *pcc_mbox_request_channel(struct mbox_client *cl, if (chan->txdone_method == TXDONE_BY_POLL && cl->knows_txdone) chan->txdone_method |= TXDONE_BY_ACK; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags); + if (pcc_doorbell_irq[subspace_id] > 0) { int rc; @@ -279,8 +281,6 @@ struct mbox_chan *pcc_mbox_request_channel(struct mbox_client *cl, } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags); - return chan; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pcc_mbox_request_channel); @@ -310,10 +310,10 @@ void pcc_mbox_free_channel(struct mbox_chan *chan) if (chan->txdone_method == (TXDONE_BY_POLL | TXDONE_BY_ACK)) chan->txdone_method = TXDONE_BY_POLL; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags); + if (pcc_doorbell_irq[id] > 0) devm_free_irq(chan->mbox->dev, pcc_doorbell_irq[id], chan); - - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pcc_mbox_free_channel); -- 1.9.1