[PATCH] powerpc/pci: Fix get_phb_number() locking

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Tue Aug 16 06:01:13 AEST 2022


On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 04:55:50PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The recent change to get_phb_number() causes a DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
> warning on some systems:
> 
>   BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
>   in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper
>   preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
>   RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
>   1 lock held by swapper/1:
>    #0: c157efb0 (hose_spinlock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: pcibios_alloc_controller+0x64/0x220
>   Preemption disabled at:
>   [<00000000>] 0x0
>   CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0-yocto-standard+ #1
>   Call Trace:
>   [d101dc90] [c073b264] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x8c (unreliable)
>   [d101dcb0] [c0093b70] __might_resched+0x258/0x2a8
>   [d101dcd0] [c0d3e634] __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x6ec
>   [d101dd50] [c0a84174] of_alias_get_id+0x50/0xf4
>   [d101dd80] [c002ec78] pcibios_alloc_controller+0x1b8/0x220
>   [d101ddd0] [c140c9dc] pmac_pci_init+0x198/0x784
>   [d101de50] [c140852c] discover_phbs+0x30/0x4c
>   [d101de60] [c0007fd4] do_one_initcall+0x94/0x344
>   [d101ded0] [c1403b40] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a8/0x22c
>   [d101df10] [c00086e0] kernel_init+0x34/0x160
>   [d101df30] [c001b334] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
> 
> This is because pcibios_alloc_controller() holds hose_spinlock but
> of_alias_get_id() takes of_mutex which can sleep.
> 
> The hose_spinlock protects the phb_bitmap, and also the hose_list, but
> it doesn't need to be held while get_phb_number() calls the OF routines,
> because those are only looking up information in the device tree.
> 
> So fix it by having get_phb_number() take the hose_spinlock itself, only
> where required, and then dropping the lock before returning.
> pcibios_alloc_controller() then needs to take the lock again before the
> list_add() but that's safe, the order of the list is not important.
> 
> Fixes: 0fe1e96fef0a ("powerpc/pci: Prefer PCI domain assignment via DT 'linux,pci-domain' and alias")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>

The problem is no longer seen with this patch applied.

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

Guenter


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