linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irq/irq

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Message-ID: <20181108212546.n5h2hssk55moyg3p@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 22:25:46 +0100
From:   Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq/irq_sim: add locking

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:55:02PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> czw., 8 lis 2018 o 20:41 Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> napisał(a):
> > > @@ -142,10 +143,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_irq_sim_init);
> > >   */
> > >  void irq_sim_fire(struct irq_sim *sim, unsigned int offset)
> > >  {
> > > +     mutex_lock(&sim->lock);
> > > +
> > >       if (sim->irqs[offset].enabled) {
> > >               sim->work_ctx.irq = irq_sim_irqnum(sim, offset);
> > >               irq_work_queue(&sim->work_ctx.work);
> > >       }
> > > +
> > > +     mutex_unlock(&sim->lock);
> >
> > This doesn't fix the issue I think. irq_work_queue() only schedules the
> > work function. If after irq_sim_fire() returned but before the worker
> > runs another irq_sim_fire() is issued the value is still overwritten.
> 
> Looking at irq_work_queue(): while there may be some arch-specific
> details deeper down the stack, it seems that unless the work is
> IRQ_WORK_LAZY, the handler should be executed immediately. I'll verify
> tomorrow though.

not considering the IRQ_WORK_LAZY case irq_work_queue adds the work
struct to a list and then calls arch_irq_work_raise(). The default
implementation for this function is empty. alpha, arm, arm64, powerpc,
sparc and x86 have alternative implementations. Quickly looking at the
arm one: It is only used on SMP. Also given that all relevant code of
irq_work_queue is protected by preempt_disable/preempt_enable this
cannot atomically call the work function, otherwise it would run with
preemption disabled which isn't the case AFAIK.

Best regards
Uwe

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