From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Medhurst Subject: [PATCH 0/3] serial: amba-pl011: fix race conditions during initialisation Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:18:57 +0000 Message-ID: <1386670740-16914-1-git-send-email-tixy@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Russell King , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linus Walleij , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org When a UART that is being used for a kernel console is also opened by user-side, e.g. for use as a terminal, then there are race conditions which can lead to terminal input being disabled and console output being corrupted. This small patch series fixes these. Jon Medhurst (3): serial: amba-pl011: use port lock to guard control register access serial: amba-pl011: factor out code for writing LCR_H register serial: amba-pl011: preseserve hardware settings during initialisation drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------