From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC 11/12] powerpc/powernv: Rework OPAL console write to remove conditional locking
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:03:52 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e3f2e429727bc1a7a79441ebb2276a51c08cd40.1790517984.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1790517984.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Clang's context analysis reports:
opal.c:454:7: error: spinlock 'opal_write_lock' is not held on every path through here [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
opal.c:493:3: error: releasing spinlock 'opal_write_lock' that was not held [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
This patch rework the OPAL console write function to remove this
conditional locking to fix the reported build errors while enabling
Clang context analysis. We could have marked __context_unsafe(),
but this anyways simplifies the locking a bit.
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
index 1946dbdc9fa1..aea83c4be76d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
@@ -438,19 +438,13 @@ ssize_t opal_get_chars(uint32_t vtermno, u8 *buf, size_t count)
return 0;
}
-static ssize_t __opal_put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const u8 *data,
- size_t total_len, bool atomic)
+static ssize_t __opal_put_chars_unlocked(uint32_t vtermno, const u8 *data,
+ size_t total_len, bool atomic)
{
- unsigned long flags = 0 /* shut up gcc */;
ssize_t written;
__be64 olen;
s64 rc;
- if (!opal.entry)
- return -ENODEV;
-
- if (atomic)
- spin_lock_irqsave(&opal_write_lock, flags);
rc = opal_console_write_buffer_space(vtermno, &olen);
if (rc || be64_to_cpu(olen) < total_len) {
/* Closed -> drop characters */
@@ -489,10 +483,26 @@ static ssize_t __opal_put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const u8 *data,
}
out:
- if (atomic)
+ return written;
+}
+
+static ssize_t __opal_put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const u8 *data,
+ size_t total_len, bool atomic)
+{
+ unsigned long flags = 0;
+ ssize_t written;
+
+ if (!opal.entry)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ if (atomic) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&opal_write_lock, flags);
+ written = __opal_put_chars_unlocked(vtermno, data, total_len, true);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&opal_write_lock, flags);
+ return written;
+ }
- return written;
+ return __opal_put_chars_unlocked(vtermno, data, total_len, false);
}
ssize_t opal_put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const u8 *data, size_t total_len)
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-27 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-27 14:33 [RFC 00/12] powerpc/pseries,powernv: Enable clang context analysis Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 01/12] powerpc/pseries: Drop inline from hugepage invalidate Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 02/12] powerpc/pseries: Rework hugepage invalidate to remove conditional locking Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 03/12] powerpc/pseries: Rework hash flush " Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 04/12] powerpc/pseries: Add context annotations for the DTL worker lock Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 05/12] powerpc/pseries: Annotate the VPD sequence lock context Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 06/12] powerpc/pseries: Annotate the RTAS indices " Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 07/12] powerpc/pseries: Annotate the RTAS physical-attestation " Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 08/12] powerpc/pseries: Annotate the DTL debugfs read " Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-29 2:04 ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 09/12] powerpc/pseries: Disable context analysis for the CMM hotplug notifier Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 10/12] powerpc/pseries: Enable context analysis Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-27 14:33 ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-09-27 14:33 ` [RFC 12/12] powerpc/powernv: " Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
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