Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] serial: qcom-geni: fix lockups

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 12:18:02PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Since 6.10-rc1, Qualcomm machines with a serial port can easily lock up
> hard, for example, when stopping a getty on reboot.
> 
> This was triggered by the kfifo conversion, which turned an existing bug
> that caused the driver to print discarded characters after a buffer
> flush into a hard lockup.
> 
> This series fixes the regression and a related soft lockup issue that
> can be triggered on software flow control and on suspend.
> 
> Doug has posted an alternative series of fixes here that depends on
> reworking the driver a fair bit here:
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240610222515.3023730-1-dianders@chromium.org/
> 
> This rework has a significant impact on performance on some platforms,
> but fortunately it seems such a rework can be avoided.
> 
> There are further bugs in the console code (e.g. that can lead to lost
> characters) that this series does not address, but those can be fixed
> separately (and I've started working on that).

I'll take these now, thanks!

greg k-h