lockdep dump on devtree_lock (involving esdhc)
Thomas Gleixner
tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Jun 12 17:49:46 EST 2013
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Scott Wood wrote:
> I get the following lockdump output on p2020rdb using
> v3.10-rc5-43-g34376a5. While it's not particularly polite for the
> esdhc driver to be calling OF functions while holding another lock which
> can be acquired from interrupt context, why is devtree_lock usually
> acquired in an irqsafe manner but sometimes not?
>
> Both types of usage were added by the same commit:
>
> commit d6d3c4e656513dcea61ce900f0ecb9ca820ee7cd
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Date: Wed Feb 6 15:30:56 2013 -0500
>
> OF: convert devtree lock from rw_lock to raw spinlock
>
> Stephen, you asked about this here:
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/01383.html
>
> Did you ever get an answer?
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2470731/
> I'm also curious why devtree_lock was made raw to begin with...
> Iterating over a device tree doesn't seem like something you'd want to
> trust to be low-latency.
The reason is that it's taken in low level cpu bringup code and I did
not find a different solution. :(
Thanks,
tglx
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