Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2017-11-03

[PATCH 2/2] media: s5p-mfc: fix lock confection - request_firmware() once and keep state

From: Shuah Khan <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-03 00:27:21
Also in: linux-media, lkml

On 11/02/2017 02:31 AM, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
On 06.10.2017 23:30, Shuah Khan wrote:
quoted
Driver calls request_firmware() whenever the device is opened for the
first time. As the device gets opened and closed, dev->num_inst == 1
is true several times. This is not necessary since the firmware is saved
in the fw_buf. s5p_mfc_load_firmware() copies the buffer returned by
the request_firmware() to dev->fw_buf.

fw_buf sticks around until it gets released from s5p_mfc_remove(), hence
there is no need to keep requesting firmware and copying it to fw_buf.

This might have been overlooked when changes are made to free fw_buf from
the device release interface s5p_mfc_release().

Fix s5p_mfc_load_firmware() to call request_firmware() once and keep state.
Change _probe() to load firmware once fw_buf has been allocated.

s5p_mfc_open() and it continues to call s5p_mfc_load_firmware() and init
hardware which is the step where firmware is written to the device.

This addresses the mfc_mutex contention due to repeated request_firmware()
calls from open() in the following circular locking warning:

[  552.194115] qtdemux0:sink/2710 is trying to acquire lock:
[  552.199488]  (&dev->mfc_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<bf145544>] s5p_mfc_mmap+0x28/0xd4 [s5p_mfc]
[  552.207459]
               but task is already holding lock:
[  552.213264]  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: [<c01df2e4>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x44/0xb8
[  552.220284]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  552.228429]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  552.235881]
               -> #2 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}:
[  552.241259]        __might_fault+0x80/0xb0
[  552.245331]        filldir64+0xc0/0x2f8
[  552.249144]        call_filldir+0xb0/0x14c
[  552.253214]        ext4_readdir+0x768/0x90c
[  552.257374]        iterate_dir+0x74/0x168
[  552.261360]        SyS_getdents64+0x7c/0x1a0
[  552.265608]        ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28
[  552.269850]
               -> #1 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#2){++++}:
[  552.276180]        down_read+0x48/0x90
[  552.279904]        lookup_slow+0x74/0x178
[  552.283889]        walk_component+0x1a4/0x2e4
[  552.288222]        link_path_walk+0x174/0x4a0
[  552.292555]        path_openat+0x68/0x944
[  552.296541]        do_filp_open+0x60/0xc4
[  552.300528]        file_open_name+0xe4/0x114
[  552.304772]        filp_open+0x28/0x48
[  552.308499]        kernel_read_file_from_path+0x30/0x78
[  552.313700]        _request_firmware+0x3ec/0x78c
[  552.318291]        request_firmware+0x3c/0x54
[  552.322642]        s5p_mfc_load_firmware+0x54/0x150 [s5p_mfc]
[  552.328358]        s5p_mfc_open+0x4e4/0x550 [s5p_mfc]
[  552.333394]        v4l2_open+0xa0/0x104 [videodev]
[  552.338137]        chrdev_open+0xa4/0x18c
[  552.342121]        do_dentry_open+0x208/0x310
[  552.346454]        path_openat+0x28c/0x944
[  552.350526]        do_filp_open+0x60/0xc4
[  552.354512]        do_sys_open+0x118/0x1c8
[  552.358586]        ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28
[  552.362830]
               -> #0 (&dev->mfc_mutex){+.+.}:
               -> #0 (&dev->mfc_mutex){+.+.}:
[  552.368379]        lock_acquire+0x6c/0x88
[  552.372364]        __mutex_lock+0x68/0xa34
[  552.376437]        mutex_lock_interruptible_nested+0x1c/0x24
[  552.382086]        s5p_mfc_mmap+0x28/0xd4 [s5p_mfc]
[  552.386939]        v4l2_mmap+0x54/0x88 [videodev]
[  552.391601]        mmap_region+0x3a8/0x638
[  552.395673]        do_mmap+0x330/0x3a4
[  552.399400]        vm_mmap_pgoff+0x90/0xb8
[  552.403472]        SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x90/0xc0
[  552.407632]        ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28
[  552.411876]
               other info that might help us debug this:

[  552.419848] Chain exists of:
                 &dev->mfc_mutex --> &type->i_mutex_dir_key#2 --> &mm->mmap_sem

[  552.431200]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  552.437092]        CPU0                    CPU1
[  552.441598]        ----                    ----
[  552.446104]   lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
[  552.449484]                                lock(&type->i_mutex_dir_key#2);
[  552.456329]                                lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
[  552.462222]   lock(&dev->mfc_mutex);
[  552.465775]
                *** DEADLOCK ***
I am not 100% but it looks like false positive. Could you describe
scenario when it deadlocks?
quoted
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <redacted>
---
 drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c        | 4 ++++
 drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc_common.h | 3 +++
 drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc_ctrl.c   | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
index 1afde50..4c253fb 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
@@ -1315,6 +1315,10 @@ static int s5p_mfc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		goto err_dma;
 	}
 
+	ret = s5p_mfc_load_firmware(dev);
+	if (ret)
+		mfc_err("Failed to load FW - try loading from open()\n");
+
What is the point of adding it? It will produce error log in case
filesystem is not yet mounted, and as I remember it was the reason to
put fw load to open callback.
"What is the point of adding it" does it mean the error message or the
attempt to load the firmware. Would it be okay to just try to load and
not print error if it fails? If it works at this stage, _open() doesn't
have to take time hit trying to load it.

thanks,
-- Shuah
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