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* [PATCH RT] tty: serial: 8250: don't take the trylock during oops
@ 2016-04-12  7:16 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior @ 2016-04-12  7:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-rt-users; +Cc: linux-kernel, tglx, Steven Rostedt

An oops with irqs off (panic() from irqsafe hrtimer like the watchdog
timer) will lead to a lockdep warning on each invocation and as such
never completes.
Therefore we skip the trylock in the oops case.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 5568d70eee0c..138b1b985063 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -2850,9 +2850,9 @@ void serial8250_console_write(struct uart_8250_port *up, const char *s,
 
 	serial8250_rpm_get(up);
 
-	if (port->sysrq)
+	if (port->sysrq || oops_in_progress)
 		locked = 0;
-	else if (oops_in_progress || in_kdb_printk())
+	else if (in_kdb_printk())
 		locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
 	else
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
-- 
2.8.0.rc3

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