Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:19:10 +0100 | From | Liviu Dudau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: Fix lockdep warning about possible circular dependency |
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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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