From: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] irq/core: synchronize irq_thread startup
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 10:43:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e64aa9cb-a1ae-7534-8bf1-446d9d8c512@pcs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtg0m2jb.ffs@tglx>
On Mon, 2 May 2022, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, May 02 2022 at 13:28, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> > While running
> > "while /bin/true; do setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none;
> > setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A; done"
> > on a kernel with threaded irqs, setserial is hung after some calls.
> >
> > setserial opens the device, this will install an irq handler if the uart is
> > not none, followed by TIOCGSERIAL and TIOCSSERIAL ioctls.
> > Then the device is closed. On close, synchronize_irq() is called by
> > serial_core.
>
> This comment made me look deeper because I expected that free_irq()
> would hang.
>
> But free_irq() stopped issuing synchronize_irq() with commit
> 519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single thread on
> free_irq()"). And that turns out to be the root cause of the problem.
> I should have caught that back then, but in hindsight ....
>
Sorry for coming back to this again late, but this makes me believe that
the real problem for the freeze in setserial is that uart_port_shutdown()
is calling synchronize_irq() after free_irq(), which is illegal in my
opinion.
It can be done only before the interrupt thread is stopped, and free_irq()
itself is already taking care about synchronizing, no matter if its done by
__synchronize_hardirq() or by synchronize_irq(), like it was before commit
519cc8652b3a.
If it is called after free_irq(), the context is already lost.
I am not sure about all the other drivers, but at least serial_core should
be fixed if you agree.
Thanks,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-10 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-02 11:28 [PATCH v3] irq/core: synchronize irq_thread startup Thomas Pfaff
2022-05-02 11:48 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-05-02 14:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-02 15:34 ` Thomas Pfaff
2022-05-02 19:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-10 8:43 ` Thomas Pfaff [this message]
2022-05-10 11:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-10 11:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-10 12:58 ` Thomas Pfaff
2022-05-02 19:21 ` [tip: irq/urgent] genirq: Synchronize interrupt thread startup tip-bot2 for Thomas Pfaff
[not found] ` <20220502160106.4587-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH v3] irq/core: synchronize irq_thread startup Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <20220503004209.4670-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-05-03 7:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-05 10:01 ` [tip: irq/urgent] genirq: Synchronize interrupt thread startup tip-bot2 for Thomas Pfaff
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