Re: [BUG][2.6.8.1] serial driver hangs SMP kernel, but not the UP kernel

Alan Cox
2005-01-07T03:00:48Z

On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 00:43, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> IIRC that guarantees a deadlock on SMP due to the
> generic serial layer trying to grab a spinlock
> that is already held. (Which prompted the original
> bug report by Tim several months ago)

I fixed the tty locking issues with that. If there are any left they
should be solely in the serial generic code and I've no idea there