Re: [GIT pull] genirq fixes for 2.6.31

[Thomas Gleixner]

Sorry, sent out the wrong patch :(

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Now, I can see a bug, which is that "action->tsk" may have been set to 
> > NULL. But I can't see a race, and I can't see a reason for all the code 
> > movement. So quite frankly, I think the comments (both in the code and in 
> > the commit message) are just wrong. And the odd "load it first, then do 
> > other things" code looks confused.
> > 
> > So why is this not just a
> > 
> > 	if (action->thread)
> > 		wake_up_process(action->thread);
> > 
> > with appropriate comments?
> 
> What guarantees that the compiler does not dereference action->thread
> twice and the action->thread = NULL; operation happens between the
> check and the wake_up_process() call? I might be paranoid, but ...
> 
> > Or, alternatively, just move all the "clear action->thread" in free_irq() 
> > to after having done the "synchronize_irq()" thing, and then - afaik - 
> > you'll not need that test at all, because you're guaranteed that as long 
> > as you're in an interrupt handler, the thing shouldn't be cleared.
> 
> Right, I looked at that as well, but we need to do it different than
> just calling synchronize_irq(), as we need to keep desc->lock after we
> established that no interrupt is in progress. Otherwise we can run
> into the same problem which we have right now. Patch below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -895,7 +907,28 @@ static struct irqaction *__free_irq(unsigned int irq, void *dev_id)
 	if (!desc)
 		return NULL;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
+	while (1) {
+		/*
+		 * Wait until we're out of the critical section.  This might
+		 * give the wrong answer due to the lack of memory barriers.
+		 */
+		while (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
+			cpu_relax();
+
+		/*
+		 * Check under the lock again. If irq is not in
+		 * progress we keep the lock held until we removed
+		 * action. We do not care about an already running irq
+		 * thread here. We care about it when we stop the thread.
+		 */
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
+
+		if (!(desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS))
+			break;
+
+		/* Try again */
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * There can be multiple actions per IRQ descriptor, find the right
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