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ptp: vclock: use mutex to fix "sleep on atomic" bug
vclocks were using spinlocks to protect access to its timecounter and cyclecounter. Access to timecounter/cyclecounter is backed by the same driver callbacks that are used for non-virtual PHCs, but the usage of the spinlock imposes a new limitation that didn't exist previously: now they're called in atomic context so they mustn't sleep. Some drivers like sfc or ice may sleep on these callbacks, causing errors like "BUG: scheduling while atomic: ptp5/25223/0x00000002" Fix it replacing the vclock's spinlock by a mutex. It fix the mentioned bug and it doesn't introduce longer delays. I've tested synchronizing various different combinations of clocks: - vclock->sysclock - sysclock->vclock - vclock->vclock - hardware PHC in different NIC -> vclock - created 4 vclocks and launch 4 parallel phc2sys processes with lockdep enabled In all cases, comparing the delays reported by phc2sys, they are in the same range of values than before applying the patch. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/69d0ff33-bd32-6aa5-d36c-fbdc3c01337c@redhat.com/ Fixes: 5d43f95 ("ptp: add ptp virtual clock driver framework") Reported-by: Yalin Li <yalli@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Tested-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221130616.21837-1-ihuguet@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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