With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK enabled we see: BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, swapper/0 lock: early_console_dev+0x8/0x160, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.17.0-09733-gb446b33-dirty #18 Call trace: [<c0087ba0>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x140 [<c0087cf0>] show_stack+0x10/0x1c [<c0598be0>] dump_stack+0x74/0xb8 [<c00cb720>] spin_dump+0x78/0x88 [<c00cb754>] spin_bug+0x24/0x34 [<c00cb7e4>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x30/0x158 [<c059ea2c>] _raw_spin_lock+0x1c/0x2c [<c02e0e30>] __msm_console_write+0x68/0x154 [<c02e0f50>] msm_serial_early_write_dm+0x14/0x20 [<c00cf040>] call_console_drivers.constprop.23+0xa4/0xc4 [<c00d00c4>] console_unlock+0x2a8/0x330 [<c00d121c>] register_console+0x26c/0x338 [<c0805af4>] setup_earlycon+0x2c0/0x300 [<c0805c48>] msm_serial_dm_setup_earlycon+0x18/0x24 [<c07ed158>] do_early_param+0x84/0xd0 [<c00aec18>] parse_args+0x2b4/0x3ec [<c07ed588>] parse_early_options+0x2c/0x38 [<c07ed5c8>] parse_early_param+0x34/0x50 [<c07f03c0>] setup_arch+0x290/0x604 [<c07ed67c>] start_kernel+0x94/0x38c As the earlycon write function for msm requires a lock, we need to init it as part of the setup call. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c index 4b6c783..8ab27c9 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -973,6 +973,8 @@ msm_serial_early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device, const char *opt) if (!device->port.membase) return -ENODEV; + spin_lock_init(&device->port.lock); + device->con->write = msm_serial_early_write; return 0; } @@ -995,6 +997,8 @@ msm_serial_early_console_setup_dm(struct earlycon_device *device, if (!device->port.membase) return -ENODEV; + spin_lock_init(&device->port.lock); + device->con->write = msm_serial_early_write_dm; return 0; } -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html