[PATCH 0/8] sdhci: Move real work out of an atomic context

Anton Vorontsov cbouatmailru at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 17:15:07 EST 2010


On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:28:34AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
[...]
> [    7.372843]  [<b04193ce>] __might_sleep+0xd9/0xe0
> [    7.387864]  [<b07260cc>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x2a
> [    7.402576]  [<b06396e8>] sdhci_led_control+0x1a/0x41
> [    7.417727]  [<b063bece>] led_trigger_event+0x42/0x5c

led_trigger_even grabs a readlock. :-(

> [    7.432807]  [<b06326f8>] mmc_request_done+0x56/0x6f
> [    7.447597]  [<b063a2d1>] sdhci_finish_work+0xc8/0xcd
> [    7.462643]  [<b063a209>] ? sdhci_finish_work+0x0/0xcd
> [    7.477941]  [<b0432776>] worker_thread+0x165/0x1ed
> [    7.492856]  [<b063a209>] ? sdhci_finish_work+0x0/0xcd
> [    7.508204]  [<b0435591>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
> [    7.524178]  [<b0432611>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1ed
> [    7.538953]  [<b04352a0>] kthread+0x63/0x68
> [    7.552659]  [<b043523d>] ? kthread+0x0/0x68
> [    7.566349]  [<b0402cf6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> [    7.709931] udev: starting version 141
> [    7.940374] mmc2: new high speed SDHC card at address e4da
> [    8.058165] mmcblk0: mmc2:e4da SU04G 3.69 GiB 
> [    8.135730]  mmcblk0: p1 p2
> 
> Full dmesg is at http://chris.printf.net/anton-mutex-dmesg.txt. 
> Anton, the kernel is 2.6.35.4-olpc plus your patchset from -mm.
> I can think about how to test on an upstream kernel instead, but
> perhaps your own tests simply didn't hit sdhci_led_control(). 

Yep, LEDS support was turned off.

> Andrew, if you want to drop this while the BUG() and potential
> performance regressions are worked out, I'd be happy to keep 
> testing patches from Anton until it's without regressions here.

Thanks Chris.

I also think that it's better to drop these series now,
and meanwhile I'll try to prepare another patchset.

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Anton Vorontsov
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