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SubjectRe: UART/TTY console deadlock
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 02:40:33PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/07/02 14:12), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> > On (20/06/30 11:02), Tony Lindgren wrote:

...

> > I think we can do it. serial8250_do_startup() and irq handler take
> > port->lock, so they should be synchronized.
>
> Hmm, hold on. Why does it disable IRQ in the first place? IRQ handlers
> should grab the port->lock. So if there is already running IRQ, then
> serial8250_do_startup() will wait until IRQ handler unlocks the port->lock.
> If serial8250_do_startup() grabs the port->lock first, then IRQ will wait
> for serial8250_do_startup() to unlock it. serial8250_do_startup() does
> not release the port->unlock until its done:
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
>
> wait_for_xmitr(up, UART_LSR_THRE);
> serial_port_out_sync(port, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI);
> udelay(1); /* allow THRE to set */
> iir1 = serial_port_in(port, UART_IIR);
> serial_port_out(port, UART_IER, 0);
> serial_port_out_sync(port, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI);
> udelay(1); /* allow a working UART time to re-assert THRE */
> iir = serial_port_in(port, UART_IIR);
> serial_port_out(port, UART_IER, 0);
>
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
>
> so IRQ will not see the inconsistent device state.
>
> What exactly is the purpose of disable_irq_nosync()? Can we just remove
> disable_irq_nosync()/enable_irq() instead? Are there any IRQ handlers
> that don't acquire the port->lock?

I didn't look into this deeply, but my understanding that this is something for
special case when you have several UART ports sharing the IRQ (multi-port card)
and IRQ even maybe undesirable b/c it will confuse real IRQ handler. I don't
remember details, but AFAIR IRQ handler does a busyloop to service as much as
possible and in between it may release the lock (again, multi-port UART cards),
that's why we better avoid IRQ event in the first place.
But it's my pure speculation.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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