Previously Soft Reset (clear of SRST bit in UCR2 register) of UART in startup is not protected by lock, which may have race with console_write, as console_write may occur at anytime even when UART port is shutdown. To avoid this race, protect Soft reset of UART port with spin_lock. Signed-off-by: Jiada Wang <jiada_wang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c index c8cfa06..38717c7 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c @@ -1114,6 +1114,12 @@ static int imx_startup(struct uart_port *port) writel(temp & ~UCR4_DREN, sport->port.membase + UCR4); + /* Can we enable the DMA support? */ + if (is_imx6q_uart(sport) && !uart_console(port) && + !sport->dma_is_inited) + imx_uart_dma_init(sport); + + spin_lock_irqsave(&sport->port.lock, flags); /* Reset fifo's and state machines */ i = 100; @@ -1124,13 +1130,6 @@ static int imx_startup(struct uart_port *port) while (!(readl(sport->port.membase + UCR2) & UCR2_SRST) && (--i > 0)) udelay(1); - /* Can we enable the DMA support? */ - if (is_imx6q_uart(sport) && !uart_console(port) && - !sport->dma_is_inited) - imx_uart_dma_init(sport); - - spin_lock_irqsave(&sport->port.lock, flags); - /* * Finally, clear and enable interrupts */ -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
