Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] fb: udlfb: fix hang at disconnect

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:35:42PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 29.01.2013 16:51, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> >Am 29.01.2013 12:11, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> >
> >>
> >>To explain the problem on shutdown a bit further, I think the following
> >>happens (usb and driver are statically linked and started by the kernel):
> >>
> >>shutdown -> kill signal -> usb stack shuts down -> udlfb waits (forever)
> >>for a kill or an urb which it doesn't get.
> >
> >Having a second look at what I've written above, I'm not even sure if
> >the kernel sends one or more fatal signals on shutdown at all. I've just
> >assumed it because otherwise down_interruptible() wouldn't have worked
> >before (it would have stalled on shutdown too (if an urb got missed),
> >not only on disconnect).
> >
> >Sounds like an interesting question I should read about (if/when fatal
> >signals are issued by the kernel). ;)
> >
> >>Maybe the sequence is different if the usb-stack and udlfb are used as a
> >>module and/or udlfb is used only for X/fb. I'm not sure what actually
> >>does shut down the usb-stack in such a case, but maybe more than one
> >>kill signal might be thrown around.
> 
> If anyone still follows my monologue: The question was interesting
> enough that I couldn't resist for long. ;)
> 
> (all pasted => format broken)
> 
> In drivers/tty/sysrq.c there is
> 
> ------
> static void send_sig_all(int sig)
> {
>         struct task_struct *p;
> 
>         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
>         for_each_process(p) {
>                 if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
>                         continue;
>                 if (is_global_init(p))
>                         continue;
> 
>                 do_send_sig_info(sig, SEND_SIG_FORCED, p, true);
>         }
>         read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> }
> 
> static void sysrq_handle_term(int key)
> {
>         send_sig_all(SIGTERM);
>         console_loglevel = 8;
> }
> 
> (...)
> 
> static void sysrq_handle_kill(int key)
> {
>         send_sig_all(SIGKILL);
>         console_loglevel = 8;
> }
> ------
> 
> Now I've done some learning by doing (kernel 3.7.5 + some patches):
> 
> ------
> diff --git a/drivers/video/udlfb.c b/drivers/video/udlfb.c
> index df249f3..db8a86c 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/udlfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/udlfb.c
> @@ -1876,14 +1876,18 @@ static void dlfb_free_urb_list(struct dlfb_data
> *dev)
>         unsigned long flags;
> 
>         pr_notice("Freeing all render urbs\n");
> +       if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
> +               pr_info("AHO: I'm a kernel thread\n");
> 
>         /* keep waiting and freeing, until we've got 'em all */
>         while (count--) {
> 
>                 /* Timeout likely occurs at disconnect (resulting in a
> leak) */
>                 ret = down_timeout_killable(&dev->urbs.limit_sem,
> FREE_URB_TIMEOUT);
> -               if (ret)
> +               if (ret) {
> +                       pr_info("AHO: ret %d\n", ret);
>                         break;
> +               }
> 
>                 spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->urbs.lock, flags);
> ------
> 
> Now I've disconnected the display. And, as send_sig_all() already
> suggests, the result was (besides discovering an oops in
> call_timer_fn.isra (once)):
> 
> ------
> [  120.963010] udlfb: AHO: I'm a kernel thread
> [  122.957024] udlfb: AHO: ret -62
> ------
> (-62 is -ETIME)
> 
> So, if the above down_timeout_killable() is only
> down_interruptible(), as in kernel 3.7.5, the  box would not
> shutdown afterwards, because on shutdown no signal would be send to
> that kernel-thread which called dlfb_free_urb_list().
> 
> A last note: dlfb_usb_disconnect() (thus dlfb_free_urb_list()) isn't
> called on shutdown if the device would still be connected. So the
> problem only might happen, if the screen will be disconnected before
> shutdown (and an urb gets missed). So the subject of my patch is
> correct. ;)

Yes, we don't disconnect all devices from the USB bus on shutdown
because, I think, we didn't tear down all of the PCI devices originally,
so your USB bus never knew it was going to be shutdown.

This is how things have always worked, and shutting down PCI devices in
the past have been known to cause problems.  I think.  I vaguely
remember some issues when I tried to do this 10+ years or so ago in the
2.5 kernel days, but I could be totally wrong given that I can't
remember what I was working on last month at times...

So you are right in that your driver will wait for forever for a
disconnect() to happen, as it will never be called.  I don't understand
the problem that this is causing when it happens.  What's wrong with
udlfb that having the cpu suddently reset as the powerdown happened
without it knowing about it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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