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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@gmail.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Manivannan Sadhasivam" <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@suse.com>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-actions@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty: serial: owl: Initialize lock before registering port
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:30:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200710163022.GT3703480@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200710155806.GA10457@BV030612LT>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:58:06PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 03:05:49PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:

...

> > But I think we now have a core fix for this, no need to do this in any
> > individual driver, right?  Can you test my tty-linus branch to see if
> > your change is still needed or not?
> 
> I was not aware of the alternative approach, at that time Andy
> confirmed the expected behaviour is to have a proper initialization
> of the spinlock in the driver:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHp75Vcz0a87LSnb6Ubt5_bSF3wUcs21GbP119trXER5KBDxbQ@mail.gmail.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHp75Vf8xJ2yX-11JsTDnRvZQOK+16aePcB1AUzq=5oO-mFCGQ@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> I have just checked the tty-linus tree and the only related change
> seems to be f743061a85f5
> ("serial: core: Initialise spin lock before use in uart_configure_port()")
> 
> I tested it on top of 5.8.0-rc4 and I confirm it fixes the splat,

Thank you for the testing!

> however I'm a bit confused now regarding the recommended approach since
> there is at least one more commit in the tty-linux tree that still 
> handles a similar issue in the driver specific code:
> f38278e9b810 ("serial: sh-sci: Initialize spinlock for uart console")

They now should be reverted.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-29 11:06 [PATCH 1/1] tty: serial: owl: Initialize lock before registering port Cristian Ciocaltea
2020-05-29 11:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-29 11:53   ` Andreas Färber
2020-05-29 12:03     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-10 12:05   ` Cristian Ciocaltea
2020-07-10 13:35     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-10 15:58       ` Cristian Ciocaltea
2020-07-10 16:30         ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-07-11  6:30           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-11 13:55             ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-29 11:35 ` Andy Shevchenko

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