linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: mctrl_gpio: add parameter to skip sync

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Message-ID: <2025021347-cling-smoked-9f28@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:58:00 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@...tlin.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...tlin.com>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
	Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, imx@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: mctrl_gpio: add parameter to skip sync

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:25:04AM +0100, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
> The following splat has been observed on a SAMA5D27 platform using
> atmel_serial:
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/irq/manage.c:738
> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 27, name: kworker/u5:0
> preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
> INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> irq event stamp: 0
> hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [<00000000>] 0x0
> hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<c01588f0>] copy_process+0x1c4c/0x7bec
> softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<c0158944>] copy_process+0x1ca0/0x7bec
> softirqs last disabled at (0): [<00000000>] 0x0
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/u5:0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7+ #74
> Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
> Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on [bluetooth]
> Call trace:
>   unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
>   show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x70
>   dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x38c/0x598
>   __might_resched from disable_irq+0x1c/0x48
>   disable_irq from mctrl_gpio_disable_ms+0x74/0xc0
>   mctrl_gpio_disable_ms from atmel_disable_ms.part.0+0x80/0x1f4
>   atmel_disable_ms.part.0 from atmel_set_termios+0x764/0x11e8
>   atmel_set_termios from uart_change_line_settings+0x15c/0x994
>   uart_change_line_settings from uart_set_termios+0x2b0/0x668
>   uart_set_termios from tty_set_termios+0x600/0x8ec
>   tty_set_termios from ttyport_set_flow_control+0x188/0x1e0
>   ttyport_set_flow_control from wilc_setup+0xd0/0x524 [hci_wilc]
>   wilc_setup [hci_wilc] from hci_dev_open_sync+0x330/0x203c [bluetooth]
>   hci_dev_open_sync [bluetooth] from hci_dev_do_open+0x40/0xb0 [bluetooth]
>   hci_dev_do_open [bluetooth] from hci_power_on+0x12c/0x664 [bluetooth]
>   hci_power_on [bluetooth] from process_one_work+0x998/0x1a38
>   process_one_work from worker_thread+0x6e0/0xfb4
>   worker_thread from kthread+0x3d4/0x484
>   kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28
> 
> This warning is emitted when trying to toggle, at the highest level,
> some flow control (with serdev_device_set_flow_control) in a device
> driver. At the lowest level, the atmel_serial driver is using
> serial_mctrl_gpio lib to enable/disable the corresponding IRQs
> accordingly.  The warning emitted by CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is due to
> disable_irq (called in mctrl_gpio_disable_ms) being possibly called in
> some atomic context (some tty drivers perform modem lines configuration
> in regions protected by port lock).
> 
> Add a flag to mctrl_gpio_disable_ms to allow controlling whether the
> function should block, depending the context in which it is called.
> Update mctrl_gpio_disable_ms calls with the relevant flag value,
> depending on whether the call is protected by some port lock.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@...tlin.com>
> ---
> This series follows a report made here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/3d227ebe-1ee6-4d57-b1ec-78be59af7244@bootlin.com/
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c    | 2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c      | 2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/imx.c               | 2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c | 9 +++++++--
>  drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.h | 4 ++--
>  drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c            | 2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/stm32-usart.c       | 2 +-
>  7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> index d7976a21cca9ce50557ca5f13bb01448ced0728b..b234c6c1fe8b3dae4efc2091c8aecf1f1dddc9f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> @@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ static void serial8250_disable_ms(struct uart_port *port)
>  	if (up->bugs & UART_BUG_NOMSR)
>  		return;
>  
> -	mctrl_gpio_disable_ms(up->gpios);
> +	mctrl_gpio_disable_ms(up->gpios, false);

This a bad api.

When you read this line in the driver, do you know what "false" means
here?

Please make two functions, mctrl_gpio_disable_ms_sync() and
mctrl_gpio_disable_ms_no_sync() which can internally just call
mctrl_gpio_disable_ms() with the boolean, but no driver should have to
call that at all.

That way, when you read driver code, you KNOW what is happening and you
don't have to hunt around in a totally different C file to try to figure
it out and loose your concentration.

thanks,

greg k-h