Sleeping from invalid context in udlfb

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Mikulas,

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 5:23 PM Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com> wrote:
> BTW when using the udlfb driver as a console, I've got this warning.
> vt_console_print takes a spinlock and then calls the framebuffer driver
> that sleeps.
>
> The question is - whose fault is this? Could the console code somehow be
> told to print characters without holding a spinlock? Or does it mean that
> framebuffer drivers can't sleep?
>
> udlfb communicates through USB, so the sleeping is inevitable.
>
> Mikulas
>
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:421
> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 430, name: kworker/2:3
> 6 locks held by kworker/2:3/430:
>  #0: 000000001301127e ( (wq_completion)"events"){....} , at: process_one_work+0x17c/0x3a8
>  #1: 00000000beacc951 ( (work_completion)(&(&dlfb->init_framebuffer_work)->work)){....} , at: process_one_work+0x17c/0x3a8
>  #2: 00000000a402f826 ( registration_lock){....} , at: register_framebuffer+0x28/0x2c0 [fb]
>  #3: 0000000021cbe902 ( console_lock){....} , at: register_framebuffer+0x258/0x2c0 [fb]
>  #4: 0000000096d51735 ( console_owner){....} , at: console_unlock+0x174/0x500
>  #5: 00000000faa7f206 ( printing_lock){....} , at: vt_console_print+0x60/0x3a0
> Preemption disabled at: [<ffffff8008403130>] vt_console_print+0x60/0x3a0
> CPU: 2 PID: 430 Comm: kworker/2:3 Not tainted 4.17.10-debug #3
> Hardware name: Marvell Armada 8040 MacchiatoBin/Armada 8040 MacchiatoBin, BIOS EDK II Jul 30 2018
> Workqueue: events dlfb_init_framebuffer_work [udlfb]
> Call trace:
>  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x150
>  show_stack+0x14/0x20
>  dump_stack+0x8c/0xac
>  ___might_sleep+0x140/0x170
>  __might_sleep+0x50/0x88
>  __kmalloc+0x1b0/0x270
>  xhci_urb_enqueue+0xa8/0x460 [xhci_hcd]
>  usb_hcd_submit_urb+0xc0/0x998 [usbcore]
>  usb_submit_urb+0x1e0/0x518 [usbcore]
>  dlfb_submit_urb+0x38/0x98 [udlfb]
>  dlfb_handle_damage.isra.4+0x1e0/0x210 [udlfb]
>  dlfb_ops_imageblit+0x28/0x38 [udlfb]
>  soft_cursor+0x15c/0x1d8 [fb]
>  bit_cursor+0x324/0x510 [fb]
>  fbcon_cursor+0x144/0x1a0 [fb]
>  hide_cursor+0x38/0xa0
>  vt_console_print+0x334/0x3a0
>  console_unlock+0x274/0x500
>  register_framebuffer+0x22c/0x2c0 [fb]
>  dlfb_init_framebuffer_work+0x1ec/0x2fc [udlfb]
>  process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3a8
>  worker_thread+0x44/0x418
>  kthread+0x11c/0x120
>  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

This is sort of expected: you cannot do USB transfers from printk().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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