mailbox: forward the hrtimer if not queued and under a lock

This reverts commit c7dacf5b0f,
"mailbox: avoid timer start from callback"

The previous commit was reverted since it lead to a race that
caused the hrtimer to not be started at all. The check for
hrtimer_active() in msg_submit() will return true if the
callback function txdone_hrtimer() is currently running. This
function could return HRTIMER_NORESTART and then the timer
will not be restarted, and also msg_submit() will not start
the timer. This will lead to a message actually being submitted
but no timer will start to check for its compleation.

The original fix that added checking hrtimer_active() was added to
avoid a warning with hrtimer_forward. Looking in the kernel
another solution to avoid this warning is to check hrtimer_is_queued()
before calling hrtimer_forward_now() instead. This however requires a
lock so the timer is not started by msg_submit() inbetween this check
and the hrtimer_forward() call.

Fixes: c7dacf5b0f ("mailbox: avoid timer start from callback")
Signed-off-by: Björn Ardö <bjorn.ardo@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
This commit is contained in:
Björn Ardö 2022-03-31 09:01:15 +02:00 committed by Jassi Brar
parent c25f778997
commit bca1a10046
2 changed files with 14 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct mbox_controller {
const struct of_phandle_args *sp);
/* Internal to API */
struct hrtimer poll_hrt;
spinlock_t poll_hrt_lock;
struct list_head node;
};