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Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2017 20:36:53 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] PM / Domains: Handle safely
 genpd_syscore_switch() call on non-genpd device

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 08:19:47PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 03:01:15PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
> >> > genpd_syscore_switch() had two problems:
> >> > 1. It silently assumed that device, it is being called for, belongs to
> >> >    generic power domain and used container_of() on its power domain
> >> >    pointer.  Such assumption might not be true always.
> >> >
> >> > 2. It iterated over list of generic power domains without holding
> >> >    gpd_list_lock mutex thus list could have been modified in the same
> >> >    time.
> >> >
> >> > Usage of genpd_lookup_dev() solves both problems as it is safe a call
> >> > for non-generic power domains and uses mutex when iterating.
> >> >
> >> > Reported-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
> >> > Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
> >>
> >> This is commit 8b55e55ee44356d6 in pm/linux-next, also part of the pull
> >> request "[GIT PULL] Power management updates for v4.13-rc1".
> >>
> >> > Not tested on real hardware.
> >>
> >> This causes the following BUG during s2ram on all my Renesas arm32 boards,
> >> where the system timer is an IRQ safe device:
> >>
> >> PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> >> PM: Preparing system for sleep (mem)
> >> Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
> >> OOM killer disabled.
> >> Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
> >> PM: Suspending system (mem)
> >> PM: suspend of devices complete after 122.841 msecs
> >> PM: suspend devices took 0.130 seconds
> >> PM: late suspend of devices complete after 2.682 msecs
> >> PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 29.951 msecs
> >> Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
> >> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:238
> >
> > Thanks for report!
> >
> > Damn it, although I couldn't find this in the code, but I was fearing
> > that this ends up in atomic section. That would kind of explain why
> > mutex was not there [1].
> >
> > Anyway, the buggy code was there already. Instead of "sleeping in atomic
> > section" there was no locking at all... In this context this was
> > probably safe because it was executed *after* disabling non-boot CPUs
> > but then the function cannot be called in other contexts.
> >
> > I am not sure I will be capable of developing the proper fix as I do not
> > have the hardware and I do not know all stuff happening in sh suspend.
> > Probably reverting this and living with non-locked path would be the
> > safest choice.
> >
> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9778903/
> 
> AFAIU, all syscore stuff runs in atomic context.

Indeed... The confusing part is that this code is syscore only from
the name, it is not hooked in to syscore_ops. Although going by call
chain (through sh clocksource drivers) we end up in
timekeeping_suspend() which is a syscore op.

I wonder whether it would be useful - after reverting my commit - to add
an assert (which is a stronger API requirement than only documentation "may
only be called during the system core (syscore) suspend") like:
	WARN_ON(num_online_cpus() > 1));
as without mutexes this should not be executed with more than one online
CPU.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

> 
> Don't worry, you're not the only one.
> This bug report was almost 100% the same as an earlier one for a patch
> from Ulf ;-)
> (cfr. "[RESEND PATCH 0/2] PM / Domains: Fix asynchronous execution of
> *noirq() callbacks")
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds