Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753682AbaG2O2g (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:28:36 -0400 Received: from fw-tnat.austin.arm.com ([217.140.110.23]:13938 "EHLO collaborate-mta1.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbaG2O2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:28:35 -0400 From: Marc Zyngier To: Christopher Covington Cc: "linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Rutland , Barry Song , Kevin Hilman , Russell King , Jason Cooper , Alexander Shiyan , Larry Bassel , Catalin Marinas , Daniel Lezcano , Will Deacon , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Sudeep Holla , Thomas Gleixner , Maxime Ripard Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] arm/arm64: fix use of irq_find_mapping outside of legal RCU context In-Reply-To: <53C04B3E.20908@codeaurora.org> (Christopher Covington's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:38:22 +0100") Organization: ARM Ltd References: <1404825038-547-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <53C04B3E.20908@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:28:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87mwbskzna.fsf@approximate.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 11 2014 at 9:38:22 pm BST, Christopher Covington wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On 07/08/2014 09:10 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> A number of irqchip drivers are directly calling irq_find_mapping, >> which may use a rcu_read_lock call when walking the radix tree. > > If this happens to be easy for you to determine: do direct callers of > irq_find_host such as irq_create_of_mapping have a similar problem with > irq_domain_mutex? Definitely not from this problem. irq_find_host doesn't use RCU at all, so it shouldn't be an issue. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/