On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 03:42:31PM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: [...] > > > > This patch fixes the deadlock issue for recursive output; it adds a > > > > variable 'curr_user' to indicate the uart port is used by which CPU, if > > > > the CPU has acquired spinlock and wants to execute recursive output, > > > > it will directly bail out. Here we don't choose to avoid locking and > > > > print out log, the reason is in this case we don't want to reset the > > > > uart port with function msm_reset_dm_count(); otherwise it can introduce > > > > confliction with other flows and results in uart port malfunction and > > > > later cannot output anymore. > > > > > > Is this not fixable? Sure, fixing the deadlock is an improvement, but > > > dropping logs (particularly a memory warning like in your example) > > > seems undesirable. > > > > Thanks a lot for your reviewing, Jeffrey. > > > > Agreed with you for the concern. > > > > To be honest, I am not familiar with the msm uart driver, so have no > > confidence which is the best way for uart port operations. I can > > think out one possible fixing is shown in below, if detects the lock > > is not acquired then it will force to reset UART port before exit the > > function __msm_console_write(). > > > > This approach is not tested yet and it looks too arbitrary; I will > > give a try for it. At the meantime, welcome any insight suggestion > > with proper register operations. > > According to the documentation, NCF_TX is only needed for SW transmit > mode, where software is directly puttting characters in the fifo. Its > not needed for BAM mode. According to your example, recursive console > printing will only happen in BAM mode, and not in SW mode. Perhaps if > we put the NCF_TX uses to just the SW mode, we avoid the issue and can > allow recursive printing? Thanks for the suggestion! But based on the suggestion, I tried to change code as below, the console even cannot work when boot the kernel: static void msm_reset_dm_count(struct uart_port *port, int count) { + u32 val; + msm_wait_for_xmitr(port); - msm_write(port, count, UARTDM_NCF_TX); - msm_read(port, UARTDM_NCF_TX); + + val = msm_read(port, UARTDM_DMEN); + + /* + * NCF is only enabled for SW transmit mode and is + * skipped for BAM mode. + */ + if (!(val & UARTDM_DMEN_TX_BAM_ENABLE) && + !(val & UARTDM_DMEN_RX_BAM_ENABLE)) { + msm_write(port, count, UARTDM_NCF_TX); + msm_read(port, UARTDM_NCF_TX); + } } Alternatively, when exit from __msm_console_write() and if detect the case for without acquiring spinlock, invoke msm_wait_for_xmitr() to wait for transmit completion looks a good candidate solution. The updated patch is as below. Please let me know if this is doable? diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c index 1db79ee8a886..aa6a494c898d 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ struct msm_port { bool break_detected; struct msm_dma tx_dma; struct msm_dma rx_dma; + struct cpumask curr_user; }; #define UART_TO_MSM(uart_port) container_of(uart_port, struct msm_port, uart) @@ -440,6 +441,7 @@ static void msm_complete_tx_dma(void *args) u32 val; spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); + cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user); /* Already stopped */ if (!dma->count) @@ -474,6 +476,7 @@ static void msm_complete_tx_dma(void *args) msm_handle_tx(port); done: + cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); } @@ -548,6 +551,7 @@ static void msm_complete_rx_dma(void *args) u32 val; spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); + cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user); /* Already stopped */ if (!dma->count) @@ -594,6 +598,7 @@ static void msm_complete_rx_dma(void *args) msm_start_rx_dma(msm_port); done: + cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); if (count) @@ -932,6 +937,7 @@ static irqreturn_t msm_uart_irq(int irq, void *dev_id) u32 val; spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); + cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user); misr = msm_read(port, UART_MISR); msm_write(port, 0, UART_IMR); /* disable interrupt */ @@ -963,6 +969,7 @@ static irqreturn_t msm_uart_irq(int irq, void *dev_id) msm_handle_delta_cts(port); msm_write(port, msm_port->imr, UART_IMR); /* restore interrupt */ + cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); return IRQ_HANDLED; @@ -1573,10 +1580,12 @@ static inline struct uart_port *msm_get_port_from_line(unsigned int line) static void __msm_console_write(struct uart_port *port, const char *s, unsigned int count, bool is_uartdm) { + struct msm_port *msm_port = UART_TO_MSM(port); int i; int num_newlines = 0; bool replaced = false; void __iomem *tf; + int locked = 1; if (is_uartdm) tf = port->membase + UARTDM_TF; @@ -1589,7 +1598,15 @@ static void __msm_console_write(struct uart_port *port, const char *s, num_newlines++; count += num_newlines; - spin_lock(&port->lock); + if (port->sysrq) + locked = 0; + else if (oops_in_progress) + locked = spin_trylock(&port->lock); + else if (cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &msm_port->curr_user)) + locked = 0; + else + spin_lock(&port->lock); + if (is_uartdm) msm_reset_dm_count(port, count); @@ -1625,7 +1642,12 @@ static void __msm_console_write(struct uart_port *port, const char *s, iowrite32_rep(tf, buf, 1); i += num_chars; } - spin_unlock(&port->lock); + + if (!locked) + msm_wait_for_xmitr(port); + + if (locked) + spin_unlock(&port->lock); }