[Skiboot] [PATCH] FSP: Fix poller lock issue

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun Mar 8 20:49:41 AEDT 2015


This patch attempts to fix "poller lock issue" by removing
opal_run_pollers function call from fsp_sync_msg.

sample log:
----------
[4130907342,3] Running pollers with lock held !
CPU 08b0 Backtrace:
 S: 0000000033cc3990 R: 0000000030013520   .backtrace+0x2c
 S: 0000000033cc3a20 R: 0000000030017d9c   .opal_run_pollers+0x44
 S: 0000000033cc3aa0 R: 0000000030045f04   .fsp_sync_msg+0x40
 S: 0000000033cc3b30 R: 0000000030047840   .fsp_fetch_data+0x138
 S: 0000000033cc3c20 R: 0000000030021204   .hservices_lid_preload+0x148
 S: 0000000033cc3d10 R: 0000000030058038   .ibm_fsp_init+0xe4
 S: 0000000033cc3dc0 R: 0000000030058df8   .firenze_init+0x18
 S: 0000000033cc3e30 R: 00000000300141a4   .main_cpu_entry+0x3e0
 S: 0000000033cc3f00 R: 0000000030002534   boot_entry+0x18c

Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

---
Ben, Stewart,
  Presently we have two places (fsp_fetch_data & capp_lid_download) where
  we held lock and make opal_run_pollers call (via fsp_sync_msg).

  Earlier we had replaced __fsp_poll with opal_run_pollers (commit 488dc8a3).
  But I think its fine just to call __fsp_poll here. This seems to be working.
  But needs to be reviewed before merging.

  I tried other alternative approach we discussed earlier. (introduce queue in
  fsp_fetch_data). This requies quite a bit of work in callback function.
---
 hw/fsp/fsp.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/fsp/fsp.c b/hw/fsp/fsp.c
index e57c611..5fbc33f 100644
--- a/hw/fsp/fsp.c
+++ b/hw/fsp/fsp.c
@@ -1663,7 +1663,10 @@ int fsp_sync_msg(struct fsp_msg *msg, bool autofree)
 
 	while(fsp_msg_busy(msg)) {
 		cpu_relax();
-		opal_run_pollers();
+		lock(&fsp_lock);
+		__fsp_poll(false);
+		unlock(&fsp_lock);
 	}
 
 	switch(msg->state) {



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