linux-kernel - Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic

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Message-ID: <adar5ya5h4w.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 15:13:19 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
Cc:	lkml@...eThan.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic


 > The only objective information is posted here:
 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/20/342

Not sure if you've looked at this, but it's a lockdep trace that looks
to be a valid lockdep report due to non-annotated code (I don't *think*
it's a bug).  To summarize, there is the code path in
kernel/irq/spurious.c that does:

    poll_spurious_irq_timer ->
      poll_spurious_irqs()     [from timer, with hard IRQs on] ->
      poll_all_shared_irqs()   [if we think an IRQ got stuck] ->
      try_one_irq() ->
      spin_lock(&desc->lock)   [as above -- hard IRQs on]

while kernel/irq/chip.c has:

    handle_level_irq()         [called with hard IRQs off] ->
      spin_lock(&desc->lock)   [as above -- hard IRQs off]

and lockdep can't tell that the interrupt corresponding to desc has been
disabled if we ever actually reach try_one_irq(), so there's no risk of
the interrupt coming in and deadlocking while the try_one_irq() code
holds desc->lock.

Unfortunately I don't know how to annotate this...
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