Shutting down the UART port can happen while console operations are in progress. Holding the port lock serializes these operations and avoids the UART HW to be disabled in the middle of console prints. Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c b/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c index ab3995d00973..f3ac69387b0a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c @@ -826,6 +826,9 @@ static int cdns_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port) static void cdns_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port) { int status; + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); /* Disable interrupts */ status = readl(port->membase + CDNS_UART_IMR_OFFSET); @@ -835,6 +838,9 @@ static void cdns_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port) /* Disable the TX and RX */ writel(CDNS_UART_CR_TX_DIS | CDNS_UART_CR_RX_DIS, port->membase + CDNS_UART_CR_OFFSET); + + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); + free_irq(port->irq, port); } -- 2.6.3.3.g9bb996a -- 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