Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mei: vsc: Call wake_up() in the threaded IRQ handler

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024, at 12:46, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Wentong,
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 03:26:18AM +0000, Wu, Wentong wrote:
>> > From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > 
>> > The hard IRQ handler vsc_tp_irq() is called with a raw spinlock taken.
>> > wake_up() acquires a spinlock, a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT.
>> 
>> Does this mean we can't use wake_up() in isr? 
>
> Good question. A lot of callers currently do.

If driver has a traditional (non-threaded) handler, it should
always work fine: on non-PREEMPT_RT it can take the spinlock
and on PREEMPT_RT it automatically turns into a threaded
handler that can still call it.

> In this case, handle_edge_irq() takes the raw spinlock and acquiring the
> wake queue spinlock in wake_up() leads to sleeping IRQs disabled (see
> below).
>
> I don't think there's any harm in moving the wake_up() to the threaded
> handler.

It causes an extra bit of latency for the non-PREEMPT_RT case
because you now always have to go through two task switches.
This is probably fine if you don't care about latency. 

You can probably replace the open-coded completion (wait queue
head plus atomic) with a normal 'struct completion' and
call complete() in the isr instead. This one seems to only
take a raw spinlock already.

    Arnd