[PATCH] serial/amba-pl011: Disable interrupts around TX softirq

Hi Greg,

On 06/13/2015 01:39 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 03:07:47PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:

quoted

pl011_tx_softirq() currently uses spin_{,un}lock(), which are not
sufficient to inhibit pl011_int() from being triggered by a local
IRQ and trying to re-take the same lock.  This can lead to
deadlocks.

This patch uses the _irq() locking variants instead to ensure that
pl011_int() handling for a given port is deferred until any
pl011_tx_softirq() work for that port is complete.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: stable <redacted> # 4.1
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Another candidate for v4.1 if possible (sorry!) -- I thought this change
was already in, but it went astray when I was refactoring.

Too late for 4.1, sorry.

So if I get this correctly, we go from "some characters lost from
systemd messages" behaviour in 4.0 to "may deadlock" in 4.1 now?
Is that right?

I understand that you are reluctant to take this patch this late in the
game, but wouldn't it actually be better now to revert PL011 to the
state of 4.0 to avoid ending up with worse-than-4.0 behaviour in the 4.1
release?
We could still backport the solution ending up in 4.2-rc to 4.1.x.

Cheers,
Andre.

This doesn't apply to my tty-next branch,
otherwise I would have queued it up there.  Care to redo it and mark it
for -stable, like I did above, and resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h