[PATCH 2/5] TTY: serial, move locking in uart_close

Jiri Slaby
2011-08-25T13:12:28Z

So now, when we handle CLOSING flag, there is no point to hold
port->mutex over the start of uart_close.

Yes, there are still several things to reason about:
* port->count etc is and always was protected by a spinlock
* ->stop_rx is protected by a spinlock. Otherwise it would
race with interrupts.
* uart_wait_until_sent -- that one is already called without
port->mutex from set_termios and tty_set_ldisc. Should anything
be protected there, it would be tx_empty. And by a spinlock.
8250 does this internally...

This step is needed to fix system stalls. To not create an AB-BA lock
dependency (see next patches).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index cd7a0bb..e1bff1b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -1258,7 +1258,6 @@ static void uart_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)

pr_debug("uart_close(%d) called\n", uport->line);

- mutex_lock(&port->mutex);
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);

if (tty_hung_up_p(filp)) {
@@ -1317,6 +1316,7 @@ static void uart_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
uart_wait_until_sent(tty, uport->timeout);
}

+ mutex_lock(&port->mutex);
uart_shutdown(tty, state);
uart_flush_buffer(tty);

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