linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: exynos_adc: Handle timeout and race conditions

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Message-ID: <5144849A.8050907@metafoo.de>
Date:	Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:41:30 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
CC:	Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <ch.naveen@...sung.com>,
	linux-iio <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Naveen Krishna <naveenkrishna.ch@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC: PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: exynos_adc: Handle timeout and race
 conditions

On 03/16/2013 01:37 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> wrote:
>> What exactly is the spinlock protecting against here? Concurrent runs of
>> exynos_adc_isr? This is probably not issue in the first place.
>>
>> What you want to protect against is that completion is completed between the
>> call to INIT_COMPLETION() and the start of a new conversion. So the sections
>> that need to be under the spinlock are the complete call here and the point
>> from INIT_COMPLETION until the transfer is started in exynos_read_raw(). Make
>> sure to use spin_lock_irq there.
> 
> ...and at that point I _think_ you won't also need the mutex.
> 
> A reasonable way to test to see if you've got this all correct would be to:
> 
> * Start two processes that are reading from different ADCs that will
> report very different values (maybe add a device tree node for adc1 or
> adc7 and use those since they're not really connected to
> thermistors?).
> 
> * Have your two processes read as fast as they can.  This could just
> be "while true; do cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/temp1_input;
> done"
> 
> * Decrease your timeout and maybe(?) sprinkle some random udelays in
> the irq handler so that the timeouts happen sometimes but not others.
> 
> * Periodically cancel one of the readers with Ctrl-C
> 
> If all is working well then you should always get back the right value
> from the right reader (and get no crashes).
> 


I think you still need the mutex for serialization, otherwise the requests
would just cancel each other out. Btw. what happens if you start a conversion
while another is still in progress? Is it possible to abort a conversion?

- Lars
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