[PATCH 1/1] carma-fpga: fix lockdep warning
Ira W. Snyder
iws at ovro.caltech.edu
Fri Jan 27 07:59:54 EST 2012
Lockdep occasionally complains with the message:
INFO: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
This is caused by calling videobuf_dma_unmap() under spin_lock_irq(). To
fix the warning, we drop the lock before unmapping and freeing the
buffer.
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws at ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c b/drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c
index 14e974b2..4fd896d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/carma/carma-fpga.c
@@ -1079,6 +1079,7 @@ static ssize_t data_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, size_t count,
struct fpga_reader *reader = filp->private_data;
struct fpga_device *priv = reader->priv;
struct list_head *used = &priv->used;
+ bool drop_buffer = false;
struct data_buf *dbuf;
size_t avail;
void *data;
@@ -1166,10 +1167,12 @@ have_buffer:
* One of two things has happened, the device is disabled, or the
* device has been reconfigured underneath us. In either case, we
* should just throw away the buffer.
+ *
+ * Lockdep complains if this is done under the spinlock, so we
+ * handle it during the unlock path.
*/
if (!priv->enabled || dbuf->size != priv->bufsize) {
- videobuf_dma_unmap(priv->dev, &dbuf->vb);
- data_free_buffer(dbuf);
+ drop_buffer = true;
goto out_unlock;
}
@@ -1178,6 +1181,12 @@ have_buffer:
out_unlock:
spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock);
+
+ if (drop_buffer) {
+ videobuf_dma_unmap(priv->dev, &dbuf->vb);
+ data_free_buffer(dbuf);
+ }
+
return count;
}
--
1.7.3.4
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