Re: [PATCH 0/2] serial: imx: Backport fixes for irq handling to v4.14

["gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:03:10AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:50:08AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:08:00PM +0000, Schrempf Frieder wrote:
> > > From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
> > > 
> > > A customer of ours has problems with RS485 on i.MX6UL with the latest v4.14
> > > kernel. They get an exception like below from time to time (the trace is
> > > from an older kernel, but the problem also exists in v4.14.170).
> > > 
> > > As the cpuidle state 2 causes large delays for the interrupt that controls the
> > > RS485 RTS signal (which can lead to collisions on the bus), cpuidle state 2 was
> > > disabled on this system. This aspect might cause the exception happening more
> > > often on this system than on other systems with default cpuidle settings.
> > > 
> > > Looking for solutions I found Uwe's patches that were applied in v4.17 being
> > > mentioned here [1] and here [2]. In [1] Uwe notes that backporting these fixes
> > > to v4.14 might not be trivial, but I tried and in my opinion found it not to be
> > > too problematic either.
> > > 
> > > With the backported patches applied, our customer reports that the exceptions
> > > stopped occuring. Given this and the fact that the problem seems to be known
> > > and quite common, it would be nice to get this into the v4.14 stable tree. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the backports, both now queued up.
> 
> To complete these fixes you also want to backport
> 
> 	101aa46bd221 serial: imx: fix a race condition in receive path

If so, it needs to also go to 4.19.y, and someone needs to provide a
working backport for both places :)

thanks,

greg k-h