Re: [PATCH 3/5] openrisc: Move to ticket-spinlock

[Stafford Horne]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:29:13AM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 7:23 AM Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 04:25:58PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > We have no indications that openrisc meets the qspinlock requirements,
> > > so move to ticket-spinlock as that is more likey to be correct.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > I have specifically not included Peter's SOB on this, as he sent his
> > > original patch
> > > <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YHbBBuVFNnI4kjj3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>
> > > without one.
> > > ---
> > >  arch/openrisc/Kconfig                      | 1 -
> > >  arch/openrisc/include/asm/Kbuild           | 5 ++---
> > >  arch/openrisc/include/asm/spinlock.h       | 3 +--
> > >  arch/openrisc/include/asm/spinlock_types.h | 2 +-
> > >  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This series breaks SMP support on OpenRISC.  I haven't traced it down yet, it
> > seems trivial but I have a few places to check.
> >
> > I replied to this on a kbuild warning thread, but also going to reply here with
> > more information.
> >
> >  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YjeY7CfaFKjr8IUc@antec/#R
> >
> > So far this is what I see:
> >
> >   * ticket_lock is stuck trying to lock console_sem
> >   * it is stuck on atomic_cond_read_acquire
> >     reading lock value: returns 0    (*lock is 0x10000)
> >     ticket value: is 1
> >   * possible issues:
> >     - OpenRISC is big endian, that seems to impact ticket_unlock, it looks
> All csky & riscv are little-endian, it seems the series has a bug with
> big-endian. Is that all right for qemu? (If qemu was all right, but
> real hardware failed.)

Hi Guo Ren,

OpenRISC real hardware and QEMU are both big-endian.  It fails on both.

I replied on patch 1/5 with a suggested patch which fixes the issue for me.
Please have a look.

BTW. now I can look into the sparse warnings.

-Stafford