Re: [PATCH 00/25] tty: serial: drop uart_port->lock before calling

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On 16 August 2013 17:57, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:13:01PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> The -rt patch triggers a lockdep warning for serial drivers if
>> tty_flip_buffer_push() is called with uart_port->lock locked. This never shows
>> up on UP kernels.
>
> What about SMP kernels?  linux-next?

As per Thomas Gleixner initial patch, it must break for SMP too. But we
have tested it only for 3.10 stable merged with RT Kernel patchset..

Haven't tried it on linux-next..

>> This is neither tested nor compiled.
>
> So I'm guessing you don't want it to be applied, if you can't take the
> time to at least test-build it, why should we?
>
> {sigh}

:( ..

Actually I build tested it for few ARM platforms but not for others.. Now
its build tested for all platforms that are modified here..

> Lots of tty and serial changes have happened since -rc5 in linux-next,
> can you please rebase, and test, these against that tree and resend them
> if they are still needed?

I have rebased them over latest linux-next and they applied cleanly..
Haven't tested it though.. Will try that next week.

Sorry for the noise :(

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