On Fri 2020-08-14 12:59:28, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:38:02AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > We have a number of "uart.port->desc.lock vs desc.lock->uart.port"
> > lockdep reports coming from 8250 driver; this causes a bit of trouble
> > to people, so let's fix it.
> >
>
> I guess we may add some tags here
>
> Fixes: 768aec0b5bcc ("serial: 8250: fix shared interrupts issues with SMP and RT kernels")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Raul Rangel <rrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> BugLink: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1114800
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHQZ30BnfX+gxjPm1DUd5psOTqbyDh4EJE=2=VAMW_VDafctkA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
"Link:" tag should point to the mail that is applied using git am.
I am not sure if there is a tag for related discussion in another
mail threads.
A solution might be to add a comment like:
This solution has been discussed in several threads:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHQZ30BnfX+gxjPm1DUd5psOTqbyDh4EJE=2=VAMW_VDafctkA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200812154813.GA46894@xxxxxxxxxxxx/#t
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> > @@ -2275,6 +2275,11 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
> >
> > if (port->irq && !(up->port.flags & UPF_NO_THRE_TEST)) {
> > unsigned char iir1;
>
> > + bool irq_shared = up->port.irqflags & IRQF_SHARED;
>
> I'm wondering why we need a temporary variable? This flag is not supposed to be
> changed in between, can we leave original conditionals?
>
> Nevertheless I noticed an inconsistency of the dereference of the flags which
> seems to be brough by dfe42443ea1d ("serial: reduce number of indirections in
> 8250 code").
>
> I think we can stick with newer:
>
> if (port->irqflags & IRQF_SHARED)
Sounds reasonable to me.
Andy proposed many changes. Sergey, could you please send v2?
Best Regards,
Petr
