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Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 15:14:42 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@...aro.org>
Cc:     sashal@...nel.org, rui.zhang@...el.com, edubezval@...il.com,
        daniel.lezcano@...aro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v4.14 fix for Hikey 960 unbalanced IRQ enablement

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:31:02AM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> Sasha, could you consider including this cherry-picked patchset in v4.14.
> 
> Kernel v4.14 might suffer from the following unbalanced enablement for the board Hikey 960:
> 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.148194] Unbalanced enable for IRQ 44
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.152193] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.156872] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 509 at /home/inaddy/work/sources/linux/stable/stable-linux-4.14.y/kernel/irq/manage.c:525 __enable_irq+0x78/0x80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.249606] CPU: 2 PID: 509 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 4.14.79 #1
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.255975] Hardware name: HiKey Development Board (DT)
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.261248] Workqueue: events_freezable thermal_zone_device_check
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.267368] task: ffff8000616e0e00 task.stack: ffff00000b5f0000
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.273312] PC is at __enable_irq+0x78/0x80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.277516] LR is at __enable_irq+0x78/0x80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.281718] pc : [<ffff00000813e010>] lr : [<ffff00000813e010>] pstate: 000001c5
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.289129] sp : ffff00000b5f3c80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.292457] x29: ffff00000b5f3c80 x28: 0000000000000000 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.297804] x27: ffff80005c139e38 x26: ffff000008a71870 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.303148] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000002 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.308492] x23: ffff00000b5f3d9c x22: ffff80005d565e88 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.313836] x21: 000000000000f980 x20: 000000000000002c 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.319181] x19: ffff800061726000 x18: 0000000000000010 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.324524] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.329868] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: ffff000009269c08 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.335213] x13: ffff00008940678f x12: ffff000009406797 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.340558] x11: ffff000009290000 x10: ffff00000b5f3980 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.345902] x9 : 00000000ffffffd0 x8 : ffff00000862c298 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.351246] x7 : 6c62616e65206465 x6 : 00000000000001b2 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.356589] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.361931] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : ffff800063e824c8 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.367275] x1 : 000080005af95000 x0 : 000000000000001c 
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.372618] Call trace:
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.375088] Exception stack(0xffff00000b5f3b40 to 0xffff00000b5f3c80)
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.381560] 3b40: 000000000000001c 000080005af95000 ffff800063e824c8 0000000000000000
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.389417] 3b60: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000001b2 6c62616e65206465
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.397276] 3b80: ffff00000862c298 00000000ffffffd0 ffff00000b5f3980 ffff000009290000
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.405136] 3ba0: ffff000009406797 ffff00008940678f ffff000009269c08 ffffffffffffffff
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.412994] 3bc0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000010 ffff800061726000
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.420852] 3be0: 000000000000002c 000000000000f980 ffff80005d565e88 ffff00000b5f3d9c
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.428710] 3c00: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffff000008a71870 ffff80005c139e38
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.436569] 3c20: 0000000000000000 ffff00000b5f3c80 ffff00000813e010 ffff00000b5f3c80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.444426] 3c40: ffff00000813e010 00000000000001c5 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.452286] 3c60: ffffffffffffffff ffff800061800618 ffff00000b5f3c80 ffff00000813e010
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.460144] [<ffff00000813e010>] __enable_irq+0x78/0x80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.465394] [<ffff00000813e058>] enable_irq+0x40/0x78
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.470493] [<ffff000000e228a8>] hisi_thermal_get_temp+0x1b0/0x1d8 [hisi_thermal]
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.478008] [<ffff0000087121a8>] of_thermal_get_temp+0x38/0x50
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.483869] [<ffff000008711790>] thermal_zone_get_temp+0x58/0x80
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.489903] [<ffff00000870e7bc>] thermal_zone_device_update.part.4+0x2c/0x1a8
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.497066] [<ffff00000870e9c8>] thermal_zone_device_check+0x40/0x50
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.503457] [<ffff0000080f1674>] process_one_work+0x19c/0x3d0
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.509236] [<ffff0000080f18f4>] worker_thread+0x4c/0x428
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.514664] [<ffff0000080f84fc>] kthread+0x134/0x138
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.519659] [<ffff000008085154>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
> Nov  5 12:02:54 hikey kernel: [   22.524988] ---[ end trace 328d4bb2d9b066a0 ]---
> 
> This issue was solved when "hisi_thermal_alarm_irq" function was removed so only
> "hisi_thermal_alarm_irq_thread" would exist. This has fixed the issue for the
> unbalanced enablement since there is no more:
> 
> 	disable_irq_nosync(irq);
> 	data->irq_enabled = false;
> 
> logic being done in parallel to the threaded handler AND the
> thermal_zone_device_update() call only happens now if the temperature is already
> above the threshold.
> 

So should we revert a patch instead of taking these new ones?  Would
that be easier and is this a "real" issue or just an annoying warning
splat in the kernel log?

thanks,

greg k-h

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