The meson UART driver triggers a lockdep splat at boot time, due to the new expectation that the driver has to initialize the per-port spinlock itself. It remains unclear why a double initialization of the port spinlock is a desirable outcome, but in the meantime let's fix the splat. Fixes: a3cb39d258ef ("serial: core: Allow detach and attach serial device for console") Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c index d2c08b760f83..386e39c90628 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c @@ -759,6 +759,9 @@ static int meson_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) if (ret) return ret; + /* Init the spinlock early in case this is the console */ + spin_lock_init(&port->lock); + port->iotype = UPIO_MEM; port->mapbase = res_mem->start; port->mapsize = resource_size(res_mem); -- 2.26.2