From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sboyd@codeaurora.org (Stephen Boyd) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:20:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tty: serial: msm: Fix lock init issue with earlycon In-Reply-To: <20141020221656.GC12469@codeaurora.org> References: <1413551588-14877-1-git-send-email-galak@codeaurora.org> <544553F6.1020409@codeaurora.org> <544580ED.3050604@hurleysoftware.com> <20141020221656.GC12469@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <20141020222003.GD12469@codeaurora.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 10/20, Stephen Boyd wrote: > On 10/20, Peter Hurley wrote: > > > > FWIW, __msm_console_write() is a deadlock-waiting-to_happen since it does > > not disable interrupts with spin_lock_irqsave(). > > > > Yeah we should fix that. As far as I can tell we've never used > the irqsave variant of the lock in the console path. Did this > become necessary at some point since this driver was introduced? > I'm wondering how many stable trees need the fix. Actually I don't see this case. It looks like the console is always called in call_console_drivers() with irqs saved and disabled via the logbuf_lock in console_cont_flush() or console_unlock(). -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project