Re: [PATCH/RFC] serial: sh-sci: Fix deadlock caused by serial output request

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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:14:41PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> From: Takatoshi Akiyama <takatoshi.akiyama.kj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> While spin is already locked, serial output request causes the deadlock,
> because serial output process also tries to lock the spin.
> This patch removes serial output with spin locked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takatoshi Akiyama <takatoshi.akiyama.kj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Takeshi Kihara <takeshi.kihara.df@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is a patch from the Gen3 3.3.2 BSP.
> Geert, please consider it for mainline.
> 
> Two approaches are mixed here: simply removing log messages that would
> cause a deadlock; and moving log messages to outside the lock. Some
> consideration was given (by Simon) to a more consistent approach of
> simply removing all log messages in question. However this was taken as
> logging ouside of the lock seems consistent with other logging in
> rx_timer_fn() and sci_dma_rx_complete().

Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Simon, could you use the 'wsa+renesas' email address in the future? That
would make things a tad easier for me. Thanks!

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