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author | David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> | 2012-07-04 12:06:16 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-07-09 00:12:42 -0700 |
commit | b93984c9afacd4fe32b785d52a93660d91202b10 (patch) | |
tree | bb140d9abc23831e0771940febdd4392aeffe689 /drivers/net | |
parent | d4e41649434cd6db2e69783130cba81886dac97f (diff) |
netdev/phy: Fixup lockdep warnings in mdio-mux.c
With lockdep enabled we get:
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[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.4.4-Cavium-Octeon+ #313 Not tainted
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kworker/u:1/36 is trying to acquire lock:
(&bus->mdio_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff813da7e8>] mdio_mux_read+0x38/0xa0
but task is already holding lock:
(&bus->mdio_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff813d79e4>] mdiobus_read+0x44/0x88
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
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lock(&bus->mdio_lock);
lock(&bus->mdio_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
.
.
.
This is a false positive, since we are indeed using 'nested' locking,
we need to use mutex_lock_nested().
Now in theory we can stack multiple MDIO multiplexers, but that would
require passing the nesting level (which is difficult to know) to
mutex_lock_nested(). Instead we assume the simple case of a single
level of nesting. Since these are only warning messages, it isn't so
important to solve the general case.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c index 39ea0674dcde..5c120189ec86 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c @@ -46,7 +46,13 @@ static int mdio_mux_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_id, int regnum) struct mdio_mux_parent_bus *pb = cb->parent; int r; - mutex_lock(&pb->mii_bus->mdio_lock); + /* In theory multiple mdio_mux could be stacked, thus creating + * more than a single level of nesting. But in practice, + * SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING will cover the vast majority of use + * cases. We use it, instead of trying to handle the general + * case. + */ + mutex_lock_nested(&pb->mii_bus->mdio_lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); r = pb->switch_fn(pb->current_child, cb->bus_number, pb->switch_data); if (r) goto out; @@ -71,7 +77,7 @@ static int mdio_mux_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int phy_id, int r; - mutex_lock(&pb->mii_bus->mdio_lock); + mutex_lock_nested(&pb->mii_bus->mdio_lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); r = pb->switch_fn(pb->current_child, cb->bus_number, pb->switch_data); if (r) goto out; |