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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, nsekhar@ti.com, nm@ti.com,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial: 8250: unlock port for uart_write_wakeup()
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:15:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55BAB00B.3010806@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9ol2r4y.fsf@linutronix.de>

On 07/30/2015 06:54 PM, John Ogness wrote:
> uart_write_wakeup() should be called without holding the port lock.
> Otherwise a possible recursive spinlock issue can occur, such as
> the following callchain:
> 
> 8250_core.c:serial8250_tx_chars() - called with port locked
>  serial_core.c:uart_write_wakeup()
>   tty_io.c:tty_wakeup()
>    st_core.c:st_tty_wakeup()
>     st_core.c:st_tx_wakeup()
>      st_core.c:st_int_write()
>       serial_core.c:uart_write() - locks port

NAK.

This is a bug in the N_TI_WL line discipline, specifically in the
st_tx_wakeup() function, which cannot perform the write synchronously.

This is a common line discipline bug, and typically fixed by performing
the wakeup operations from a kworker instead.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-30 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-30 22:54 [PATCH 1/3] serial: 8250: unlock port for uart_write_wakeup() John Ogness
2015-07-30 23:15 ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2015-07-30 23:53   ` Peter Hurley

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