ASoC: SOF: ipc: fix a race, leading to IPC timeouts

Currently on all supported platforms the IPC IRQ thread first signals
the sender when an IPC response is received from the DSP, then unmasks
the IPC interrupt. Those actions are performed without holding any
locks, so the thread can be interrupted between them. IPC timeouts
have been observed in such scenarios: if the sender is woken up and it
proceeds with sending the next message without unmasking the IPC
interrupt, it can miss the next response. This patch takes a spin-lock
to prevent the IRQ thread from being preempted at that point. It also
makes sure, that the next IPC transmission by the host cannot take
place before the IRQ thread has finished updating all the required IPC
registers.

Fixes: 53e0c72d98b ("ASoC: SOF: Add support for IPC IO between DSP and Host")
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-ipc.c b/sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-ipc.c
index 73ead7070cde..51b285103394 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-ipc.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-ipc.c
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ void hda_dsp_ipc_get_reply(struct snd_sof_dev *sdev)
 	struct snd_sof_ipc_msg *msg = sdev->msg;
 	struct sof_ipc_reply reply;
 	struct sof_ipc_cmd_hdr *hdr;
-	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	/*
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@ void hda_dsp_ipc_get_reply(struct snd_sof_dev *sdev)
 		dev_warn(sdev->dev, "unexpected ipc interrupt raised!\n");
 		return;
 	}
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&sdev->ipc_lock, flags);
 
 	hdr = msg->msg_data;
 	if (hdr->cmd == (SOF_IPC_GLB_PM_MSG | SOF_IPC_PM_CTX_SAVE)) {
@@ -123,7 +121,6 @@ void hda_dsp_ipc_get_reply(struct snd_sof_dev *sdev)
 out:
 	msg->reply_error = ret;
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sdev->ipc_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static bool hda_dsp_ipc_is_sof(uint32_t msg)
@@ -172,6 +169,18 @@ irqreturn_t hda_dsp_ipc_irq_thread(int irq, void *context)
 					HDA_DSP_REG_HIPCCTL,
 					HDA_DSP_REG_HIPCCTL_DONE, 0);
 
+		/*
+		 * Make sure the interrupt thread cannot be preempted between
+		 * waking up the sender and re-enabling the interrupt. Also
+		 * protect against a theoretical race with sof_ipc_tx_message():
+		 * if the DSP is fast enough to receive an IPC message, reply to
+		 * it, and the host interrupt processing calls this function on
+		 * a different core from the one, where the sending is taking
+		 * place, the message might not yet be marked as expecting a
+		 * reply.
+		 */
+		spin_lock_irq(&sdev->ipc_lock);
+
 		/* handle immediate reply from DSP core - ignore ROM messages */
 		if (hda_dsp_ipc_is_sof(msg)) {
 			hda_dsp_ipc_get_reply(sdev);
@@ -187,6 +196,8 @@ irqreturn_t hda_dsp_ipc_irq_thread(int irq, void *context)
 		/* set the done bit */
 		hda_dsp_ipc_dsp_done(sdev);
 
+		spin_unlock_irq(&sdev->ipc_lock);
+
 		ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
 	}