On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 21:40 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> hm, i just got the deadlock below, most likely due to your serial fix.
> (never got this before) It's not 100% reproducible - booted the kernel a
> dozen times (with your patch applied, working on other stuff) before i
> got this deadlock.
The original patch grabs the port.lock and then
calls serial8250_handle_port() which grabs the lock
again. Just remove the spin_lock/spin_unlock below.
+ /*
+ * If we have a buggy TX line, that doesn't
+ * notify us via iir that we need to transmit
+ * then force the call.
+ */
+ if (!handled && (up->bugs & UART_BUG_TXEN)) {
+ spin_lock(&up->port.lock);
+ serial8250_handle_port(up, regs);
+ spin_unlock(&up->port.lock);
+ }
--
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
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