On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 20:13 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > While testing kernel 3.18-rc4 I'm facing a problem with serial console. > > I'm seeing at bootup this message: > [ 17.724000] console [ttyS0] disabled > after that it's just hanging. > > It seems as if ttyS0 is somehow being reprogrammed which then disturbs the > serial ports on the receiver side (in my case a HP PCI Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART). > Any idea what changed between 3.17 and 3.18 which have caused this behavior ? > Full log below. > > Helge > > serial driver: drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c > > PCI info: > 00:04.1 Serial controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UART (rev 03) (prog-if 02 [16550]) > Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1283 > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 70 > Memory at ffffffff80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > I/O ports at 0040 [size=64] > Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 > Kernel driver in use: serial > > > dmesg after bootup: > > [ 17.708000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > [ 17.724000] serial 0000:00:04.1: enabling device (0142 -> 0143) > [ 17.724000] console [ttyS0] disabled > [ 17.880000] serial 0000:00:04.1: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xffffffff80000000 (irq = 70, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A > [ 17.996000] console [ttyS0] enabled > [ 38.888000] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 3} (detected by 1, t=5252 jiffies, g=-290, c=-291, q=2) > [ 38.888000] Task dump for CPU 3: > [ 38.888000] swapper/0 R running task 0 1 0 0x00000004 > [ 38.888000] Backtrace: > [ 38.888000] [<0000000040200848>] vprintk_emit+0x570/0x5f8 > [ 38.888000] [<0000000040200bdc>] printk+0x64/0x78 > [ 38.888000] [<0000000040201fc0>] register_console+0x438/0x550 > [ 38.888000] [<0000000040688bb8>] uart_add_one_port+0x400/0x5d0 > [ 38.888000] [<000000004068e6d4>] serial8250_register_8250_port+0x3e4/0x448 > [ 38.888000] [<0000000040695f44>] pciserial_init_ports+0x22c/0x2c8 > [ 38.888000] [<0000000040696628>] pciserial_init_one+0x250/0x2e0 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000405f3880>] pci_device_probe+0xb0/0x150 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000406a8244>] driver_probe_device+0x204/0x570 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000406a8728>] __driver_attach+0xe0/0x158 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000406a4558>] bus_for_each_dev+0xd0/0x128 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000406a76f8>] driver_attach+0x48/0x60 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000406a6de8>] bus_add_driver+0x268/0x460 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000406a915c>] driver_register+0x124/0x1d0 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000405f336c>] __pci_register_driver+0x64/0x78 > [ 38.888000] [<00000000401375e4>] serial_pci_driver_init+0x44/0x58 > > [ 59.084000] timer_interrupt(CPU 3): delayed! cycles 85EBC4C7D rem 2BAF83 next/now 2765C08677/276594D6F4 > [ 59.140000] bootconsole [ttyB0] disabled > [ 59.144000] serial 0000:00:04.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xffffffff80000008 (irq = 70, base_baud = 115200) is a 16450 > [ 59.164000] serial 0000:00:04.1: ttyS2 at MMIO 0xffffffff80000010 (irq = 70, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A I confirm this behaviour on the Mako system as well. In my case, 3.18 so royally screws up the serial port that even a power cycle won't recover the console connection to the MP (a sort of parisc equivalent of a BMC) and I have to go down to the machine room to physically yank the power from the system to power down the MP and get the console back. I've added a cc to linux-serial. It looks like there are 20 non merge commits between 3.17 and 3.18. I'm betting because of the MP problem it's got to be somewhere in the serial driver: cd92208 tty: serial: 8250_mtk: Fix quot calculation 716e115 serial: 8250_pci: remove rts_n override from Baytrail quirk 1ede7dc serial: 8250: Add Quark X1000 to 8250_pci.c 9137568 tty: serial: 8250_core: remove UART_IER_RDI in serial8250_stop_rx() 59b3e89 tty: serial: 8250_core: use the ->line argument as a hint in serial8250_find_match_or_unused() 0aa525d tty: serial: 8250_core: read only RX if there is something in the FIFO d74d5d1 tty: serial: 8250_core: add run time pm 234abab tty: serial: 8250_core: allow to set ->throttle / ->unthrottle callbacks 2989708 serial: 8250_pci: Add PCI IDs for Intel Braswell 9a1870c serial: 8250: don't use slave_id of dma_slave_config b4756f4 tty: serial: 8250: Add Mediatek UART driver 0b4af1d serial/8250_core: Add reference to uacess.h b99b121 tty: serial: 8250_core: allow to overwrite & export serial8250_startup() ae14a79 tty: serial: 8250_core: provide a function to export uart_8250_port 5435d20 serial: 8250: Document serial8250_modem_status() locking a6eec92 Revert "serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration" c10b739 serial: 8250_hp300: trivial: fix symbol name in #warning message 28e3fb6 serial: Add support for Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART e676253 serial/8250: Add support for RS485 IOCTLs 91f9d33 module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module params Bisecting is going to be a pain because of the physical power cycle problem on a racked system. 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