Re: [PATCH 0/3] serial: qcom-geni: fix lockups

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On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 04:09:22PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Since 6.10-rc1, Qualcomm machines with a serial port can easily lock up
> > hard, for example, when stopping a getty on reboot.
> > 
> > The first patch in this series fixes this severe regression by restoring
> > the pre-6.10-rc1 behaviour of printing additional characters when
> > flushing the tx buffer.
> > 
> > The second patch fixes a long-standing issue in the GENI driver which
> > can lead to a soft lock up when using software flow control and on
> > suspend.
> > 
> > The third patch, addresses the old issue with additional characters
> > being printing when flushing the buffer.
> > 
> > Note that timeouts used when clearing the tx fifo are a bit excessive
> > since I'm reusing the current qcom_geni_serial_poll_bit() helper for
> > now.
> > 
> > I think at least the first patch should be merged for rc6 while we
> > consider the best way forward to address the remaining issues.
> > 
> > Doug has posted an alternative series of fixes here that depends on
> > reworking the driver a fair bit here:
> > 
> > 	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240610222515.3023730-1-dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> I'm confused.  Should I take this series, or Doug's, or Doug's single
> patch that they say resolve the immediate issue?  I can't tell what was
> agreed on here at all, so I'm going to drop all of these patches and
> wait for a resubmission that everyone agrees should be what is taken...

Yes, sorry about the confusion. I'm preparing a v2 of this series which
fixes the regression without downsides of Doug's first series or minimal
fix. I should be able to post it tomorrow.

Johan




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