From: Dave.Martin@arm.com (Dave P Martin) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH] serial/amba-pl011: Disable interrupts around TX softirq Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:53:08 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20150615105308.GA3649@e103592.cambridge.arm.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20150613003945.GA10941@kroah.com> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 01:39:45AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 03:07:47PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > 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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.1 > > --- > > > > 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. This doesn't apply to my tty-next branch, No worries -- I was aware it was getting very late. The code this fixes is obsoleted by -next, so it is relevant only for stable now. > otherwise I would have queued it up there. Care to redo it and mark it > for -stable, like I did above, and resend it? Will do, thanks. ---Dave
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From: Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Russell King" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, "Jakub Kiciński" <moorray3@wp.pl>, "Andre Przywara" <Andre.Przywara@arm.com>, "Andrew Jackson" <Andrew.Jackson@arm.com>, "Graeme Gregory" <gg@slimlogic.co.uk>, "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>, "popcorn mix" <popcornmix@gmail.com>, "Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz" <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>, "Robin Murphy" <Robin.Murphy@arm.com>, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/amba-pl011: Disable interrupts around TX softirq Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:53:08 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20150615105308.GA3649@e103592.cambridge.arm.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20150613003945.GA10941@kroah.com> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 01:39:45AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 03:07:47PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > 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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.1 > > --- > > > > 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. This doesn't apply to my tty-next branch, No worries -- I was aware it was getting very late. The code this fixes is obsoleted by -next, so it is relevant only for stable now. > otherwise I would have queued it up there. Care to redo it and mark it > for -stable, like I did above, and resend it? Will do, thanks. ---Dave
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