Re: UART/TTY console deadlock

From: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Raul Rangel <rrangel@google.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>, "S\,
	Shirish" <Shirish.S@amd.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: UART/TTY console deadlock
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:40:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8oqa1zy.fsf@kurt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200706144314.GB1485@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>

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On Mon Jul 06 2020, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/07/06 13:31), Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> >> @@ -2275,6 +2275,7 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>> >>
>> >>         if (port->irq && !(up->port.flags & UPF_NO_THRE_TEST)) {
>> >>                 unsigned char iir1;
>> >> +
>> >>                 /*
>> >>                  * Test for UARTs that do not reassert THRE when the
>> >>                  * transmitter is idle and the interrupt has already
>> >> @@ -2284,8 +2285,6 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>> >>                  * allow register changes to become visible.
>> >>                  */
>> >>                 spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
>> >> -               if (up->port.irqflags & IRQF_SHARED)
>> >> -                       disable_irq_nosync(port->irq);
>> >>
>> >>                 wait_for_xmitr(up, UART_LSR_THRE);
>> >>                 serial_port_out_sync(port, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI);
>> >> @@ -2297,8 +2296,6 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>> >>                 iir = serial_port_in(port, UART_IIR);
>> >>                 serial_port_out(port, UART_IER, 0);
>> >>
>> >> -               if (port->irqflags & IRQF_SHARED)
>> >> -                       enable_irq(port->irq);
>> >>                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
>> >>
>> >>                 /*
>> >
>> > ...which effectively is a revert of
>> >
>> > 768aec0b5bcc ("serial: 8250: fix shared interrupts issues with SMP and
>> > RT kernels")
>> 
>> Please, don't revert that commit. I've faced the same issue as described
>> in the commit log. There is hardware available with shared UART
>> interrupt lines.
>
> Will this patch break that hardware?
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200702051213.GB3450@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain/

I'm not sure how this patch will help with the situation. Because at the
point of that THRE test the irq handler isn't registered. It's
registered a few lines below (up->ops->setup_irq()) meaning the irq line
has to be disabled if shared. Otherwise the kernel might detect a
spurious irq and disables it. That's at least my understanding of the
problem (see commit message from 54e53b2e8081 ("tty: serial: 8250: pass
IRQ shared flag to UART ports")).

Thanks,
Kurt

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