linux-kernel - Re: drm/gma500: Possible deadlock in gma_power

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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:36:01 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>
Cc:	Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ldv-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: drm/gma500: Possible deadlock in gma_power_begin()

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:02:33 +0300
Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru> wrote:

> gma_power_begin() starts with locking power_ctrl_lock spinlock and then,
> if gma_resume_pci(dev->pdev) succeed, it calls
>   psb_irq_preinstall(dev);
>   psb_irq_postinstall(dev);
> 
> psb_irq_postinstall() does some pipestat enabling/disabling dance:
>     if (dev->vblank[0].enabled)
>         psb_enable_pipestat(dev_priv, 0, PIPE_VBLANK_INTERRUPT_ENABLE);
>     else
>         psb_disable_pipestat(dev_priv, 0, PIPE_VBLANK_INTERRUPT_ENABLE);
> 
> where
> void psb_enable_pipestat(struct drm_psb_private *dev_priv, int pipe, u32
> mask)
> {
>     if ((dev_priv->pipestat[pipe] & mask) != mask) {
>         u32 reg = psb_pipestat(pipe);
>         dev_priv->pipestat[pipe] |= mask;
>         /* Enable the interrupt, clear any pending status */
>         if (gma_power_begin(dev_priv->dev, false)) {
>             u32 writeVal = PSB_RVDC32(reg);
>             writeVal |= (mask | (mask >> 16));
>             PSB_WVDC32(writeVal, reg);
>             (void) PSB_RVDC32(reg);
>             gma_power_end(dev_priv->dev);
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> So, if a flag in dev_priv->pipestat[pipe] is not in agreement with
> dev->vblank[0].enabled,
> we will have a call to gma_power_begin() again and got an unavoidable
> deadlock.

I don't think it can ever happen in the current driver but the fix also
looks trivial. I think its sufficient to do this

commit 76d209fc77516f638c6db0342fddd0930d8e5957
Author: Alan <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:   Mon Mar 2 13:32:46 2015 +0000

    gma500: drop the power lock before doing the irq pre/postinstall
    
    The irq install is not locked or managed by the power lock. It will take the
    lock again internally to do the vblank update so we would deadlock if a
    change was ever needed.

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c
index b6b135f..8d101f4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c
@@ -266,11 +266,11 @@ bool gma_power_begin(struct drm_device *dev, bool force_on)
 	/* Ok power up needed */
 	ret = gma_resume_pci(dev->pdev);
 	if (ret == 0) {
-		psb_irq_preinstall(dev);
-		psb_irq_postinstall(dev);
 		pm_runtime_get(&dev->pdev->dev);
 		dev_priv->display_count++;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&power_ctrl_lock, flags);
+		psb_irq_preinstall(dev);
+		psb_irq_postinstall(dev);
 		return true;
 	}
 out_false:
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