Triggers may raise transactions on slow busses like I2C.  Using the
original RT priority of a threaded IRQ may prevent other important IRQ
handlers from being run.

Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <cegg...@arri.de>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
---
In my particular case (on a RT kernel), the RT priority of the sysfstrig
threaded IRQ handler caused (temporarily) raising the prio of a user
space process which was holding the I2C bus mutex.

Due to a bug in the i2c-imx driver, this process spent 500 ms in a busy-wait
loop and prevented all threaded IRQ handlers from being run during this
time.

v2:
- Use sched_set_normal() instead of sched_setscheduler_nocheck()

 drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c 
b/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
index 6f16357fd732..7ed00ad695c7 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/irqdesc.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
 #include <linux/iio/iio.h>
@@ -245,6 +248,7 @@ int iio_trigger_attach_poll_func(struct iio_trigger *trig,
        int ret = 0;
        bool notinuse
                = bitmap_empty(trig->pool, CONFIG_IIO_CONSUMERS_PER_TRIGGER);
+       struct irq_desc *irq_desc;
 
        /* Prevent the module from being removed whilst attached to a trigger */
        __module_get(pf->indio_dev->driver_module);
@@ -264,6 +268,12 @@ int iio_trigger_attach_poll_func(struct iio_trigger *trig,
        if (ret < 0)
                goto out_put_irq;
 
+       /* Triggers may raise transactions on slow busses like I2C.  Using the 
original RT priority
+        * of a threaded IRQ may prevent other threaded IRQ handlers from being 
run.
+        */
+       irq_desc = irq_to_desc(pf->irq);
+       sched_set_normal(irq_desc->action->thread, 0);
+
        /* Enable trigger in driver */
        if (trig->ops && trig->ops->set_trigger_state && notinuse) {
                ret = trig->ops->set_trigger_state(trig, true);
-- 
Christian Eggers
Embedded software developer

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