From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] serial: imx: protect Soft Reset of port with lock
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:20:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413072024.GA4473@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <552B6791.60905@mentor.com>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 03:52:01PM +0900, jiwang wrote:
> Hi Greg
>
> On 03/27/2015 07:01 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:38:11PM +0900, Jiada Wang wrote:
> >>Previously Soft Reset (clear of SRST bit in UCR2 register)
> >>of UART in startup is not protected by lock, which may have race
> >>with console_write, as console_write may occur at anytime even
> >>when UART port is shutdown.
> >>
> >>To avoid this race, protect Soft reset of UART port with spin_lock.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Jiada Wang <jiada_wang@mentor.com>
> >>---
> >> drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 12 ++++++------
> >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >Doesn't apply to my tree :(
> Can you tell me which tree are you using?
> so that I can submit another patch based same tree.
Always either work off of linux-next, or my tty tree, and the tty-next
branch of it on git.kernel.org.
What tree were you working against, Linus's? If so, please read
Documentation/development_process to get an understanding of how the
kernel development process works.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-13 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-13 6:38 [PATCH] serial: imx: protect Soft Reset of port with lock Jiada Wang
2015-03-26 22:01 ` Greg KH
2015-04-13 6:52 ` jiwang
2015-04-13 7:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
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