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    ARM: PL08x: move callback outside spinlock'd region · 858c21c0
    Russell King - ARM Linux authored
    Calling the callback handler with spinlocks in the tasklet held leads
    to deadlock when dmaengine functions are called:
    
    BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, sh/417, c1870a08
    Backtrace:
    ...
    [<c017b408>] (do_raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x154) from [<c02c4b98>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x54/0x60)
    [<c02c4b44>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x0/0x60) from [<c01f5828>] (pl08x_prep_channel_resources+0x718/0x8b4)
    [<c01f5110>] (pl08x_prep_channel_resources+0x0/0x8b4) from [<c01f5bb4>] (pl08x_prep_slave_sg+0x120/0x19c)
    [<c01f5a94>] (pl08x_prep_slave_sg+0x0/0x19c) from [<c01be7a0>] (pl011_dma_tx_refill+0x164/0x224)
    [<c01be63c>] (pl011_dma_tx_refill+0x0/0x224) from [<c01bf1c8>] (pl011_dma_tx_callback+0x7c/0xc4)
    [<c01bf14c>] (pl011_dma_tx_callback+0x0/0xc4) from [<c01f4d34>] (pl08x_tasklet+0x60/0x368)
    [<c01f4cd4>] (pl08x_tasklet+0x0/0x368) from [<c004d978>] (tasklet_action+0xa0/0x100)
    
    Dan quoted the documentation:
    > 2/ Completion callback routines cannot submit new operations.  This
    >    results in recursion in the synchronous case and spin_locks being
    >    acquired twice in the asynchronous case.
    
    but then followed up to say:
    > I should clarify, this is the async_memcpy() api requirement which is
    > not used outside of md/raid5.  DMA drivers can and do allow new
    > submissions from callbacks, and the ones that do so properly move the
    > callback outside of the driver lock.
    
    So let's fix it by moving the callback out of the spinlocked region.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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