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From: "Tobias Arp" <tobiasarp@gmx.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ST16C654 stoppes transmitting after a while
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:36:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120717113603.9830@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717122140.075aa7ae@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>

This is a single core arm processor (Cirrus EP9315), could this race condition happen in this case? 

But i have CONFIG PRREMPT set. Shall i take a stab on it by switching it to off?

Tobias
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:21:40 +0100
> Von: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> An: "Tobias Arp" <tobiasarp@gmx.de>
> CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> Betreff: Re: ST16C654 stoppes transmitting after a while

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:05:21 +0200
> "Tobias Arp" <tobiasarp@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > I run kernel 3.2. Upgrading to a newer kernel would be not se easy at
> the moment.
> 
> 3.2 is certainly new enough that it should have all the major fixes in.
> 
> > I am not sure how to check if this change is really lost.
> 
> With a debugger dump the state of the port structures one the hung port
> once it has hung. Something like Red Hat's systemtap might also be very
> helpful in doing this kind of monitoring.
> 
> My first guess would be that you hit a race between the port stopping on
> one processor and the flow control event on another. We have one known
> case there still being debugged but I thought it could only be hit if you
> were using ttys in low latency mode.
> 
> Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17  7:43 ST16C654 stoppes transmitting after a while Tobias Arp
2012-07-17  9:52 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-17 10:05   ` Tobias Arp
2012-07-17 11:21     ` Alan Cox
2012-07-17 11:36       ` Tobias Arp [this message]
2012-07-17 16:38         ` Alan Cox
2012-07-18  6:37           ` Tobias Arp
2012-07-18  7:45             ` Tobias Arp
2012-07-18 11:08               ` Alan Cox
2012-07-18 11:16                 ` Tobias Arp
2012-07-20  4:25             ` Tobias Arp
2012-07-20 10:10             ` Tobias Arp

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