Re: [PATCH v2] platform/chrome: cros_ec: Use per-device lockdep key

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Wed Jan 11 2023 - 04:06:50 EST


On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 4:47 PM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 3:41 PM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Lockdep reports a bogus possible deadlock on MT8192 Chromebooks due to
> > the following lock sequences:
> >
> > 1. lock(i2c_register_adapter) [1]; lock(&ec_dev->lock)
> > 2. lock(&ec_dev->lock); lock(prepare_lock);
> >
> > The actual dependency chains are much longer. The shortened version
> > looks somewhat like:
> >
> > 1. cros-ec-rpmsg on mtk-scp
> > ec_dev->lock -> prepare_lock
> > 2. In rt5682_i2c_probe() on native I2C bus:
> > prepare_lock -> regmap->lock -> (possibly) i2c_adapter->bus_lock
> > 3. In rt5682_i2c_probe() on native I2C bus:
> > regmap->lock -> i2c_adapter->bus_lock
> > 4. In sbs_probe() on i2c-cros-ec-tunnel I2C bus attached on cros-ec:
> > i2c_adapter->bus_lock -> ec_dev->lock
> >
> > While lockdep is correct that the shared lockdep classes have a circular
> > dependency, it is bogus because
> >
> > a) 2+3 happen on a native I2C bus
> > b) 4 happens on the actual EC on ChromeOS devices
> > c) 1 happens on the SCP coprocessor on MediaTek Chromebooks that just
> > happens to expose a cros-ec interface, but does not have an
> > i2c-cros-ec-tunnel I2C bus
> >
> > In short, the "dependencies" are actually on different devices.
> >
> > Setup a per-device lockdep key for cros_ec devices so lockdep can tell
> > the two instances apart. This helps with getting rid of the bogus
> > lockdep warning. For ChromeOS devices that only have one cros-ec
> > instance this doesn't change anything.
>
> Actually, hold off on this for a bit. I just realized this makes the
> kernel give a big warning:
>
> INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
> you didn't initialize this object before use?
> turning off the locking correctness validator.
>
> CPU: 0 PID: 99 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Not tainted
> 6.2.0-rc3-next-20230111-04021-g65853aed7123-dirty #472
> 8115f54190814e6abf2d53f6a2194c1af0b27040
> Hardware name: Google juniper sku16 board (DT)
> Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
> Call trace:
> dump_backtrace.part.0+0xb4/0xf8
> show_stack+0x20/0x38
> dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb4
> dump_stack+0x18/0x34
> register_lock_class+0x16c/0x40c
> __lock_acquire+0xa0/0x1064
> lock_acquire+0x1f0/0x2f0
> down_write+0x5c/0x80
> __blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x64/0x84
> blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x1c/0x28
> cros_ec_debugfs_probe+0x218/0x3ac
> platform_probe+0x70/0xc4
> really_probe+0x158/0x290
> __driver_probe_device+0xc8/0xe0
> driver_probe_device+0x44/0x100
> __device_attach_driver+0x64/0xdc
> bus_for_each_drv+0xa0/0xc8
> __device_attach_async_helper+0x70/0xc4
> async_run_entry_fn+0x3c/0xe4
> process_one_work+0x2d0/0x48c
> worker_thread+0x204/0x274
> kthread+0xe8/0xf8
> ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

I think this is caused by

d90fa2c64d59 platform/chrome: cros_ec: Poll EC log on EC panic

That commit is missing a BLOCKING_INIT_NOTIFIER_HEAD() call.

ChenYu