Re: [PATCH 1/2] regmap: teach regmap to use raw spinlocks if requested in the config

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, Aug 25 2021 at 23:50, Vladimir Oltean wrote:

> Some drivers might access regmap in a context where a raw spinlock is
> held. An example is drivers/irqchip/irq-ls-extirq.c, which calls
> regmap_update_bits() from struct irq_chip :: irq_set_type, which is a
> method called by __irq_set_trigger() under the desc->lock raw spin lock.
>
> Since desc->lock is a raw spin lock and the regmap internal lock for
> mmio is a plain spinlock (which can become sleepable on RT), this is an
> invalid locking scheme and we get a splat stating that this is a
> "[ BUG: Invalid wait context ]".
>
> It seems reasonable for regmap to have an option use a raw spinlock too,
> so add that in the config such that drivers can request it.

What's reasonable about that?

What exactly prevents the regmap locking to use a raw spinlock
unconditionally?

Even for the case where the regmap is not dealing with irq chips it does
not make any sense to protect low level operations on shared register
with a regular spinlock. I might be missing something though...

Thanks,

        tglx