linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 37/47] soc: fsl: qe: drop broken lazy call of cpm_muram

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Message-Id: <20191108130123.6839-38-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Fri,  8 Nov 2019 14:01:13 +0100
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com>, Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: [PATCH v4 37/47] soc: fsl: qe: drop broken lazy call of cpm_muram_init()

cpm_muram_alloc_common() tries to support a kind of lazy
initialization - if the muram_pool has not been created yet, it calls
cpm_muram_init(). Now, cpm_muram_alloc_common() is always called under

	spin_lock_irqsave(&cpm_muram_lock, flags);

and cpm_muram_init() does gen_pool_create() (which implies a
GFP_KERNEL allocation) and ioremap(), not to mention the fun that
ensues from cpm_muram_init() doing

	spin_lock_init(&cpm_muram_lock);

In other words, this has never worked, so nobody can have been relying
on it.

cpm_muram_init() is called from a subsys_initcall (either from
cpm_init() in arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm_common.c or, via qe_reset(),
from qe_init() in drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe.c).

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
---
 drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_common.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_common.c b/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_common.c
index 4437f4e14d2c..feb33ec1c3d6 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_common.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_common.c
@@ -119,9 +119,6 @@ static s32 cpm_muram_alloc_common(unsigned long size,
 	struct muram_block *entry;
 	s32 start;
 
-	if (!muram_pool && cpm_muram_init())
-		goto out2;
-
 	start = gen_pool_alloc_algo(muram_pool, size, algo, data);
 	if (!start)
 		goto out2;
-- 
2.23.0