From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
"Kevin Hilman" <khilman@kernel.org>,
"Tyler Baker" <tyler.baker@linaro.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"Jon Hunter" <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: hda - Avoid potential deadlock
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:42:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hwpvmxswe.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442484006-9614-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com>
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:00:03 +0200,
Thierry Reding wrote:
>
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>
> The Tegra HDA controller driver committed in v3.16 causes deadlocks when
> loaded as a module. The reason is that the driver core will lock the HDA
> controller device upon calling its probe callback and the probe callback
> then goes on to create child devices for detected codecs and loads their
> modules via a request_module() call. This is problematic because the new
> driver will immediately be bound to the device, which will in turn cause
> the parent of the codec device (the HDA controller device) to be locked
> again, causing a deadlock.
>
> This problem seems to have been present since the modularization of the
> HD-audio driver in commit 1289e9e8b42f ("ALSA: hda - Modularize HD-audio
> driver"). On Intel platforms this has been worked around by splitting up
> the probe sequence into a synchronous and an asynchronous part where the
> request_module() calls are asynchronous and hence avoid the deadlock.
>
> An alternative proposal is provided in this series of patches. Rather
> than relying on explicit request_module() calls to load kernel modules
> for HDA codec drivers, this implements a uevent callback for the HDA bus
> to advertises the MODALIAS information to the userspace helper.
>
> Effectively this results in the same modules being loaded, but it uses
> the more canonical infrastructure to perform this. Deferring the module
> loading to userspace removes the need for the explicit request_module()
> calls and works around the recursive locking issue because both drivers
> will be bound from separate contexts.
This looks like a sane cleanup at a glance, but I can't review in
details now because I'm traveling on vacation. I'll take a closer
look in the next week.
thanks,
Takashi
>
> Thierry
>
> Thierry Reding (3):
> ALSA: hda/hdmi - Add missing MODALIAS information
> ALSA: hda - Advertise MODALIAS in uevent
> ALSA: hda: Do not rely on explicit module loading
>
> sound/hda/hda_bus_type.c | 12 +++++++
> sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c | 80 ----------------------------------------------
> sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 3 ++
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.5.0
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-19 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 10:00 [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: hda - Avoid potential deadlock Thierry Reding
2015-09-17 10:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] ALSA: hda/hdmi - Add missing MODALIAS information Thierry Reding
2015-09-17 10:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] ALSA: hda - Advertise MODALIAS in uevent Thierry Reding
2015-09-17 10:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: hda: Do not rely on explicit module loading Thierry Reding
2015-09-19 16:42 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2015-09-23 9:03 ` [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: hda - Avoid potential deadlock Takashi Iwai
2015-09-24 9:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-09-24 10:50 ` Thierry Reding
2015-09-24 11:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-09-23 18:01 ` Kevin Hilman
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