* [PATCH v2 1/2] ASoC: meson: gx-formatter: change stream lock from mutex to spinlock
2026-11-11 10:12 [PATCH v2 0/2] ASoC: meson: gx-formatter: change stream lock from mutex to spinlock Valerio Setti
@ 2026-11-11 10:12 ` Valerio Setti
2026-11-11 10:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ASoC: meson: gx-formatter: add lockdep_assert_held check Valerio Setti
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From: Valerio Setti @ 2026-11-11 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jerome Brunet, Liam Girdwood, Mark Brown, Jaroslav Kysela,
Takashi Iwai, Neil Armstrong, Kevin Hilman, Martin Blumenstingl
Cc: linux-sound, linux-arm-kernel, linux-amlogic, linux-kernel,
Valerio Setti
Currently a mutex is being used in 'struct gx_stream' to serialize
access to structure data. This was inherited from the AXG design. An
important difference though is that in axg-card dai_links are nonatomic
so callback functions like 'trigger' are allowed to sleep. In GX instead
dai_links are atomic.
For example, starting playback from userspace with
'CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y' results in a warning message like:
[ ] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:316
[ ] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 272, name: speaker-test
[ ] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
due to the following call stack:
snd_pcm_do_start (called with spinlock taken)
dpcm_fe_dai_trigger
dpcm_fe_dai_do_trigger
dpcm_dai_trigger_fe_be
dpcm_be_dai_trigger
soc_pcm_trigger
snd_soc_pcm_dai_trigger
soc_dai_trigger
aiu_encoder_i2s_trigger
gx_stream_start (takes 'ts->lock')
Fix this by changing the lock type from mutex to spinlock. This is safe
on GX platform because all formatters' functions only perform MMIO regmap
calls that do not sleep.
'spin_lock_irqsave' is used in 'gx_stream_start'/'gx_stream_stop' because
trigger runs with IRQs already disabled and stop can also run in IRQ
context (e.g. in case of XRUN while executing 'aiu_fifo_isr').
'spin_lock_irq' is instead used in 'gx_formatter_attach'/
'gx_formatter_detach' in order to prevent IRQs on the same CPU that might
end up calling 'gx_stream_stop' and therefore deadlock.
While at this also improve 'gx_formatter_detach()' by moving
'gx_formatter_disable()' under the spinlock guard. This makes it symmetric
to 'gx_formatter_attach()' and ensures that the prepare/enable/disable
formatter callbacks are called with spinlock held.
Fixes: a295be8d6210 ("ASoC: meson: gx: add gx-formatter and gx-interface")
Signed-off-by: Valerio Setti <vsetti@baylibre.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Moved 'gx_formatter_disable()' under the spinlock guard in
'gx_formatter_detach'. [Martin]
---
sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.h | 4 ++++
sound/soc/meson/gx-interface.h | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c b/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c
index 2d3218cce426..d3bc0c6c81cd 100644
--- a/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c
+++ b/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static int gx_formatter_attach(struct gx_formatter *formatter)
struct gx_stream *ts = formatter->stream;
int ret = 0;
- mutex_lock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&ts->lock);
/* Catch up if the stream is already running when we attach */
if (ts->ready) {
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int gx_formatter_attach(struct gx_formatter *formatter)
list_add_tail(&formatter->list, &ts->formatter_list);
out:
- mutex_unlock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&ts->lock);
return ret;
}
@@ -85,11 +85,10 @@ static void gx_formatter_detach(struct gx_formatter *formatter)
if (!ts)
return;
- mutex_lock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&ts->lock);
list_del(&formatter->list);
- mutex_unlock(&ts->lock);
-
gx_formatter_disable(formatter);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&ts->lock);
}
static int gx_formatter_power_up(struct gx_formatter *formatter,
@@ -212,9 +211,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gx_formatter_create);
int gx_stream_start(struct gx_stream *ts)
{
struct gx_formatter *formatter;
+ unsigned long irq_flags;
int ret = 0;
- mutex_lock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&ts->lock, irq_flags);
/* Start all the formatters attached to the stream */
list_for_each_entry(formatter, &ts->formatter_list, list) {
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ int gx_stream_start(struct gx_stream *ts)
ts->ready = true;
out:
- mutex_unlock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ts->lock, irq_flags);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gx_stream_start);
@@ -236,8 +236,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gx_stream_start);
void gx_stream_stop(struct gx_stream *ts)
{
struct gx_formatter *formatter;
+ unsigned long irq_flags;
- mutex_lock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&ts->lock, irq_flags);
ts->ready = false;
/* Stop all the formatters attached to the stream */
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ void gx_stream_stop(struct gx_stream *ts)
gx_formatter_disable(formatter);
}
- mutex_unlock(&ts->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ts->lock, irq_flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gx_stream_stop);
@@ -256,7 +257,7 @@ struct gx_stream *gx_stream_alloc(struct gx_iface *iface)
ts = kzalloc_obj(*ts);
if (ts) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ts->formatter_list);
- mutex_init(&ts->lock);
+ spin_lock_init(&ts->lock);
ts->iface = iface;
}
@@ -272,7 +273,6 @@ void gx_stream_free(struct gx_stream *ts)
* are removing the TDM DAI. It should not be possible
*/
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&ts->formatter_list));
- mutex_destroy(&ts->lock);
kfree(ts);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gx_stream_free);
diff --git a/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.h b/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.h
index b90b1814d79b..9f5a1720481e 100644
--- a/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.h
+++ b/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.h
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ struct gx_formatter_hw {
struct gx_formatter_ops {
struct gx_stream *(*get_stream)(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w);
+ /*
+ * Following functions are called with gx_stream->lock held and local
+ * IRQs disabled so they must not sleep.
+ */
void (*enable)(struct regmap *map);
void (*disable)(struct regmap *map);
int (*prepare)(struct regmap *map,
diff --git a/sound/soc/meson/gx-interface.h b/sound/soc/meson/gx-interface.h
index 2a6207e393e8..a6a5cc9e7af0 100644
--- a/sound/soc/meson/gx-interface.h
+++ b/sound/soc/meson/gx-interface.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/regmap.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <sound/pcm.h>
#include <sound/soc.h>
#include <sound/soc-dai.h>
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ struct gx_iface {
struct gx_stream {
struct gx_iface *iface;
struct list_head formatter_list;
- struct mutex lock;
+ spinlock_t lock;
unsigned int channels;
unsigned int width;
unsigned int physical_width;
--
2.47.3
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2026-11-11 10:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Valerio Setti
@ 2026-11-11 10:12 ` Valerio Setti
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Valerio Setti @ 2026-11-11 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jerome Brunet, Liam Girdwood, Mark Brown, Jaroslav Kysela,
Takashi Iwai, Neil Armstrong, Kevin Hilman, Martin Blumenstingl
Cc: linux-sound, linux-arm-kernel, linux-amlogic, linux-kernel,
Valerio Setti
The documentation of 'struct gx_formatter_ops' states that
formatter's callbacks for enable/disable/prepare are called with the
spinlock held. Validate this by adding 'lockdep_assert_held()' in
'gx_formatter_enable'/'gx_formatter_disable'.
Suggested-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerio Setti <vsetti@baylibre.com>
---
sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c b/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c
index d3bc0c6c81cd..46efe34e84e1 100644
--- a/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c
+++ b/sound/soc/meson/gx-formatter.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ static int gx_formatter_enable(struct gx_formatter *formatter)
{
int ret;
+ lockdep_assert_held(&formatter->stream->lock);
+
/* Do nothing if the formatter is already enabled */
if (formatter->enabled)
return 0;
@@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ static int gx_formatter_enable(struct gx_formatter *formatter)
static void gx_formatter_disable(struct gx_formatter *formatter)
{
+ lockdep_assert_held(&formatter->stream->lock);
+
/* Do nothing if the formatter is already disabled */
if (!formatter->enabled)
return;
--
2.47.3
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