[PATCH v2 0/5] serial: Finish sysrq on qcom_geni; fix sysrq vs. lockdep on 8250
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Nov 10 04:07:45 AEDT 2018
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:11:02PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> I started out this series trying to make sysrq work over the serial
> console on qcom_geni_serial, then fell into a rat's nest.
>
> To solve the deadlock I faced when enabling sysrq I tried to borrow
> code from '8250_port.c' which avoided grabbing the port lock in
> console_write(). ...but since these days I try to run with lockdep on
> all the time, I found it caused an annoying lockdep splat (which I
> also reproduced on my rk3399 board). ...so I instead changed my
> qcom_geni_serial solution to borrow code from 'msm_serial.c'
>
> I wasn't super happy with the solution in 'msm_serial.c' though. I
> don't like releasing the spinlock there. Not only is it ugly but it
> means we are unlocking / re-locking _all the time_ even though sysrq
> characters are rare. ...so I came up with what I think is a better
> solution and then implemented it for qcom_geni_serial.
>
> Since I had a good way to test 8250-based UARTs, I also fixed that
> driver to use my new method. When doing so, I ran into a missing
> include in serial_core.h. NOTE: I didn't have a way to test
> msm_serial.c at all, so I didn't switch that (or all other serial
> drivers for that matter) to the new method.
>
> NOTE: from a serial point of view v2 is the same as v1 but I've
> removed the extra kgdb-related patches and made it obvious that this
> is really for all sysrq, not just kgdb. I've also generally tried to
> curate the CCs more properly.
Looks good, thanks for cleaning this up. All now queued up.
greg k-h
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