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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:40:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: RCU stall in 8250 serial driver Linux 4.15-rc1
To: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Shankara Pailoor <sp3485@columbia.edu>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:24:32 -0800
> Shankara Pailoor <sp3485@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Sorry for that. Here is the stack trace. C Program below
>
>
>
>>  serial_in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:111 [inline]
>>  wait_for_xmitr+0x8a/0x1d0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2033
>>  serial8250_console_putchar+0x19/0x50 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3170
>>  uart_console_write+0x98/0xc0 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:1858
>
> The console is spinning in polled mode trying to write data to the
> console port, which it seems has gotten a bit stuck. Could be the
> hypervisor hits some kind of buffering limit, could be hypervisor
> interface broke.
>
> Either way the console interface is supposed to stall the machine to
> ensure the bytes always get out and if your serial port jams or gets
> massively behind then this will happen.

+1
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/21/480

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko