On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 16:19, Serge Semin
[off-list ref] wrote:

It has been discovered that there is a potential deadlock between
the clock-change-notifier thread and the UART port suspending one:

   CPU0 (suspend CPU/UART)   CPU1 (update clock)
            ----                    ----
   lock(&port->mutex);
                             lock((work_completion)(&data->clk_work));
                             lock(&port->mutex);
   lock((work_completion)(&data->clk_work));

   *** DEADLOCK ***

The best way to fix this is to eliminate the CPU0
port->mutex/work-completion scenario. So we suggest to register and
unregister the clock-notifier during the DW APB UART port probe/remove
procedures, instead of doing that at the points of the port
startup/shutdown.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/f1cd5c75-9cda-6896-a4e2-42c5bfc3f5c3@redhat.com (local)

Fixes: cc816969d7b5 ("serial: 8250_dw: Fix common clocks usage race condition")
Reported-by: Hans de Goede <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <redacted>

Tested-by: Jonathan Liu <redacted>

Fixes hang while closing the serial port on RK3399 that I was
experiencing often with Linux 5.9.
After applying this patch, it no longer hangs while closing the serial port.
No problems while rebooting either.

Thanks.

Regards,
Jonathan

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