Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: Fix lockdep warning about possible circular dependency

[Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:08:29PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:54:04PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > Actually, scrub that idea - drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes()
> > > calls drm_edid_to_eld() for these cases anyway, so we must call
> > > drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes() with the audio_mutex held.
> > 
> > OK, so the lockdep warning is spurious?
> 
> I don't think so.  I think there's two ways to solve this:
> 
> 1. replace the audio_mutex in tda998x_audio_get_eld() and
>    tda998x_connector_fill_modes() with a new mutex (eld_mutex) to
>    protect just the ELD.
> 
> 2. remove the mutex from these two functions, and take the connection_mutex
>    modeset lock in tda998x_audio_get_eld().
> 
> However, I don't have a view on which would be best.

If you don't mind, I took the liberty of picking option 2, just because
I don't like adding new locks when existing ones might do the job.

v2 patch on the way shortly.

Best regards,
Liviu

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