Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] regmap: Reject fast_io regmap configurations with RBTREE and MAPLE caches

[Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>]

Hi,

On 20.07.2023 05:28, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> REGCACHE_RBTREE and REGCACHE_MAPLE dynamically allocate memory for regmap
> operations. This is incompatible with spinlock based locking which is used
> for fast_io operations. Reject affected configurations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> ---
> This seems prudent, given that accesses will be protected by spinlock
> but may allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. Another option might be to use
> WARN_ON instead of rejecting the configuration to avoid hard regressions
> (and I think both drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c and
> sound/soc/codecs/sti-sas.c may be affected, though I can not test it).

This patch, which landed in today's linux-next, breaks operation of the 
RockChip's VOP2 DRM driver 
(drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_vop2.c). I'm not sure what is the 
proper fix in this case. Should one change the cache type to REGCACHE_FLAT?


>   drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 9 +++++++++
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> index 89a7f1c459c1..b4640285c0b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> @@ -777,6 +777,15 @@ struct regmap *__regmap_init(struct device *dev,
>   	} else {
>   		if ((bus && bus->fast_io) ||
>   		    config->fast_io) {
> +			/*
> +			 * fast_io is incompatible with REGCACHE_RBTREE and REGCACHE_MAPLE
> +			 * since both need to dynamically allocate memory.
> +			 */
> +			if (config->cache_type == REGCACHE_RBTREE ||
> +			    config->cache_type == REGCACHE_MAPLE) {
> +				ret = -EINVAL;
> +				goto err_name;
> +			}
>   			if (config->use_raw_spinlock) {
>   				raw_spin_lock_init(&map->raw_spinlock);
>   				map->lock = regmap_lock_raw_spinlock;

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland