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Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:51:32 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...il.com>,
	Clark Williams <clark@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH RT] acpi/rt: Convert acpi lock back to a
 raw_spinlock_t

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 18:21 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, John Kacur wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks Steven. That looks way better than the previous revert.
> 
> I can't tell as I haven't seen the previous revert. And looks good is
> not really a good review criteria.

I agreed, and warned John on IRC about that. This is why the patch had
RFC in the subject.

> 
> The patch is converting _all_ the spin_locks in acpi to raw spinlocks,
> which will give you a nice bunch of "BUG: sleeping function called
> from invalid context" splats depending on the ACPI functionality of
> your machine.

Yep, I asked to have this tested on a wide range of boxes with the debug
options enabled. Hoping to see if splats do happen.

> 
> The lock which is related to this splat is: acpi_gbl_hardware_lock and
> that's the only lock which can be safely converted to a raw spinlock.
> 
> Untested patch below.

I'll try this patch instead, and see what breaks ;-)

Thanks,

-- Steve

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 
> 
> Index: linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
> +++ linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h
> @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ ACPI_EXTERN u8 acpi_gbl_global_lock_pend
>   * interrupt level
>   */
>  ACPI_EXTERN acpi_spinlock acpi_gbl_gpe_lock;	/* For GPE data structs and registers */
> -ACPI_EXTERN acpi_spinlock acpi_gbl_hardware_lock;	/* For ACPI H/W except GPE registers */
> +ACPI_EXTERN acpi_raw_spinlock acpi_gbl_hardware_lock;	/* For ACPI H/W except GPE registers */
>  
>  /*****************************************************************************
>   *
> Index: linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
> +++ linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
> @@ -271,14 +271,14 @@ acpi_status acpi_hw_clear_acpi_status(vo
>  			  ACPI_BITMASK_ALL_FIXED_STATUS,
>  			  ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(acpi_gbl_xpm1a_status.address)));
>  
> -	lock_flags = acpi_os_acquire_lock(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock);
> +	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock, lock_flags);
>  
>  	/* Clear the fixed events in PM1 A/B */
>  
>  	status = acpi_hw_register_write(ACPI_REGISTER_PM1_STATUS,
>  					ACPI_BITMASK_ALL_FIXED_STATUS);
>  
> -	acpi_os_release_lock(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock, lock_flags);
> +	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock, lock_flags);
>  
>  	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>  		goto exit;
> Index: linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwxface.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwxface.c
> +++ linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwxface.c
> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_write_bit_register(u32 
>  		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_BAD_PARAMETER);
>  	}
>  
> -	lock_flags = acpi_os_acquire_lock(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock);
> +	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock, lock_flags);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * At this point, we know that the parent register is one of the
> @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_write_bit_register(u32 
>  
>  unlock_and_exit:
>  
> -	acpi_os_release_lock(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock, lock_flags);
> +	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock, lock_flags);
>  	return_ACPI_STATUS(status);
>  }
>  
> Index: linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/utmutex.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/acpi/acpica/utmutex.c
> +++ linux-stable/drivers/acpi/acpica/utmutex.c
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_ut_mutex_initialize(voi
>  		return_ACPI_STATUS (status);
>  	}
>  
> -	status = acpi_os_create_lock (&acpi_gbl_hardware_lock);
> +	status = acpi_os_create_raw_lock (&acpi_gbl_hardware_lock);
>  	if (ACPI_FAILURE (status)) {
>  		return_ACPI_STATUS (status);
>  	}
> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ void acpi_ut_mutex_terminate(void)
>  	/* Delete the spinlocks */
>  
>  	acpi_os_delete_lock(acpi_gbl_gpe_lock);
> -	acpi_os_delete_lock(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock);
> +	acpi_os_delete_raw_lock(acpi_gbl_hardware_lock);
>  
>  	/* Delete the reader/writer lock */
>  
> Index: linux-stable/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-stable.orig/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
> +++ linux-stable/include/acpi/platform/aclinux.h
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
>  
>  #define acpi_cache_t                        struct kmem_cache
>  #define acpi_spinlock                       spinlock_t *
> +#define acpi_raw_spinlock                   raw_spinlock_t *
>  #define acpi_cpu_flags                      unsigned long
>  
>  #else /* !__KERNEL__ */
> @@ -175,6 +176,19 @@ static inline void *acpi_os_acquire_obje
>  	lock ? AE_OK : AE_NO_MEMORY;				\
>  })
>  
> +#define acpi_os_create_raw_lock(__handle)			\
> +({								\
> +	raw_spinlock_t *lock = ACPI_ALLOCATE(sizeof(*lock));	\
> +								\
> +	if (lock) {						\
> +		*(__handle) = lock;				\
> +		raw_spin_lock_init(*(__handle));		\
> +	}							\
> +	lock ? AE_OK : AE_NO_MEMORY;				\
> +})
> +
> +#define acpi_os_delete_raw_lock(__handle)	kfree(__handle)
> +
>  #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>  
>  #endif /* __ACLINUX_H__ */


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