Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.15 104/124] clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems

[David Lechner]

On 03/19/2018 10:48 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit a12aa8a68dfef5de181f2e555aa950a0ab05411f ]
>
> Reentrant calls to clk_enable() are not working on UP systems. This is
> caused by the fact spin_trylock_irqsave() always returns true when
> CONFIG_SMP=n (and CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=n) which causes the reference
> counting to not work correctly when clk_enable_lock() is called twice
> before clk_enable_unlock() is called (this happens when clk_enable()
> is called from within another clk_enable()).
>
> This fixes the problem by skipping the call to spin_trylock_irqsave() on UP
> systems and relying solely on reference counting. We also make sure to set
> flags in this case so that we are not returning an uninitialized value.
>
> Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I don't know of any existing bugs in v4.15 that this fixes, so I don't
think this really fits the criteria for stable.