From: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
USB <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: gadget: Avoid race between dwc3 interrupt handler and irq thread handler
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:27:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFED-j=CUdGNtt0CsZPDZNMn9Op3tmAneNqscQRyFneibAOOjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m1p3a3v.fsf@linux.intel.com>
2016-12-27 12:05 GMT+01:00 Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> writes:
>> On 12/26/2016 04:01 PM, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>> On some platfroms(like x86 platform), when one core is running the USB gadget
>>> irq thread handler by dwc3_thread_interrupt(), meanwhile another core also can
>>> respond other interrupts from dwc3 controller and modify the event buffer by
>>> dwc3_interrupt() function, that will cause getting the wrong event count in
>>> irq thread handler to make the USB function abnormal.
>>>
>>> We should add spin_lock/unlock() in dwc3_check_event_buf() to avoid this race.
>>
>> Why not spin_lock_irq ones? This lock seems to be used in both
>> normal and interrupt threads. Or, I missed anything?
>
> this is top half handler. Interrupts are already disabled.
>
BTW,
We don't use spin_lock in top half handler.
Maybe we should/can switch all spin_lock_irqsave() to simple
spin_lock() in the thread/callbacks?
Or there is a reason to use irqsave() version?
BR
Janusz
> --
> balbi
--
Janusz Dziedzic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-28 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-26 8:01 [PATCH] usb: dwc3: gadget: Avoid race between dwc3 interrupt handler and irq thread handler Baolin Wang
2016-12-27 2:39 ` Lu Baolu
2016-12-27 2:58 ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-27 4:45 ` Lu Baolu
2016-12-27 11:05 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-12-28 15:27 ` Janusz Dziedzic [this message]
2016-12-28 16:19 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-12-29 1:29 ` John Youn
2017-01-05 19:08 ` John Youn
2017-01-06 2:44 ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-27 10:52 ` Janusz Dziedzic
2016-12-27 11:06 ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-27 11:11 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-12-27 12:16 ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-28 12:30 ` Janusz Dziedzic
2017-01-03 12:21 ` Baolin Wang
2017-01-03 12:33 ` Felipe Balbi
2017-01-05 2:07 ` Baolin Wang
2017-01-05 9:26 ` Felipe Balbi
2017-01-05 9:43 ` Baolin Wang
2017-01-05 11:19 ` Felipe Balbi
2017-01-05 12:03 ` Baolin Wang
2016-12-27 11:07 ` Felipe Balbi
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