Re: [PATCH v3] tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: Fix softlock

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 6:19 PM Ryan Case <ryandcase@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Transfers were being divided into device FIFO sized (64 byte max)
> operations which would poll for completion within a spin_lock_irqsave /
> spin_unlock_irqrestore block. This both made things slow by waiting for
> the FIFO to completely drain before adding further data and would also
> result in softlocks on large transmissions.
>
> This patch allows larger transfers with continuous FIFO additions as
> space becomes available and removes polling from the interrupt handler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Case <ryandcase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Reworded comment for clarity
> - Fixed mips compiler warning
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Addressed nits raised by Stephen
>
>  drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Looks happy to me now.  Thanks and sorry for misunderstanding how
"active" worked on v2.

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux PPP]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linmodem]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Kernel for ARM]

  Powered by Linux