From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC71C43217 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1343891AbiD1IO6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2022 04:14:58 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54654 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S244874AbiD1IOg (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2022 04:14:36 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364F776282; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4C213D5; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.57.12.231] (unknown [10.57.12.231]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E93F3F774; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cafe4fd-8a0b-2633-44a3-2995abd6c38c@arm.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:11:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/30] coresight: cpu-debug: Replace mutex with mutex_trylock on panic notifier To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, bhe@redhat.com, pmladek@suse.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, coresight@lists.linaro.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, rcu@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, x86@kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, halves@canonical.com, fabiomirmar@gmail.com, alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, arnd@arndb.de, bp@alien8.de, corbet@lwn.net, d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dyoung@redhat.com, feng.tang@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mikelley@microsoft.com, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, jgross@suse.com, john.ogness@linutronix.de, keescook@chromium.org, luto@kernel.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, tglx@linutronix.de, vgoyal@redhat.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, will@kernel.org, Leo Yan , Mathieu Poirier , Mike Leach References: <20220427224924.592546-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> <20220427224924.592546-10-gpiccoli@igalia.com> From: Suzuki K Poulose In-Reply-To: <20220427224924.592546-10-gpiccoli@igalia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Guilherme, On 27/04/2022 23:49, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > The panic notifier infrastructure executes registered callbacks when > a panic event happens - such callbacks are executed in atomic context, > with interrupts and preemption disabled in the running CPU and all other > CPUs disabled. That said, mutexes in such context are not a good idea. > > This patch replaces a regular mutex with a mutex_trylock safer approach; > given the nature of the mutex used in the driver, it should be pretty > uncommon being unable to acquire such mutex in the panic path, hence > no functional change should be observed (and if it is, that would be > likely a deadlock with the regular mutex). > > Fixes: 2227b7c74634 ("coresight: add support for CPU debug module") > Cc: Leo Yan > Cc: Mathieu Poirier > Cc: Mike Leach > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose > Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli How would you like to proceed with queuing this ? I am happy either way. In case you plan to push this as part of this series (I don't see any potential conflicts) : Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose