Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: Use a spinlock to guard `fep->ptp_clk_on`

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: "Csókás Bence" <csokas.bence@prolan.hu>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	kernel@pengutronix.de, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: Use a spinlock to guard `fep->ptp_clk_on`
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 09:26:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80f9cb5b-0e02-a367-5263-4fbffec055bb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220901140402.64804-1-csokas.bence@prolan.hu>


On 9/1/2022 7:04 AM, Csókás Bence wrote:
> Mutexes cannot be taken in a non-preemptible context,
> causing a panic in `fec_ptp_save_state()`. Replacing
> `ptp_clk_mutex` by `tmreg_lock` fixes this.
> 
> Fixes: 6a4d7234ae9a ("net: fec: ptp: avoid register access when ipg clock is disabled")
> Fixes: f79959220fa5 ("fec: Restart PPS after link state change")
> Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220827160922.642zlcd5foopozru@pengutronix.de/
> Signed-off-by: Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@prolan.hu>
> ---

[snip]

>   	schedule_delayed_work(&fep->time_keep, HZ);
>   }
> @@ -599,8 +593,6 @@ void fec_ptp_init(struct platform_device *pdev, int irq_idx)
>   	}
>   	fep->ptp_inc = NSEC_PER_SEC / fep->cycle_speed;
>   
> -	spin_lock_init(&fep->tmreg_lock);

This change needs to be kept as there is no other code in the driver 
that would initialize the tmreg_lock otherwise. Try building a kernel 
with spinlock debugging enabled and you should see it barf with an 
incorrect spinlock bad magic.
-- 
Florian