Hans has discovered that there is a potential deadlock between the ref
clock change notifier and the port suspension procedures {see the link at
the bottom of the letter}. Indeed the deadlock is possible if the port
suspension is initiated during the ref clock rate change:
CPU0 (suspend CPU/UART) CPU1 (update clock)
---- ----
lock(&port->mutex);
lock((work_completion)(&data->clk_work));
lock(&port->mutex);
lock((work_completion)(&data->clk_work));
*** DEADLOCK ***
So the CPU performing the UART port shutdown procedure will wait until the
ref clock change notifier is finished (worker is flushed), while the later
will wait for a port mutex being released.
A possible solution to bypass the deadlock is to move the worker flush out
of the critical section protected by the TTY port mutex. For instance we
can register and de-register the clock change notifier in the port probe
and remove methods instead of having them called from the port
startup/shutdown callbacks. But in order to do that we need to make sure
that the serial8250_update_uartclk() method is safe to be used while the
port is shutted down. Alas the current implementation doesn't provide that
safety. The solution described above is introduced in the framework of
this patchset. See individual patches for details.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/f1cd5c75-9cda-6896-a4e2-42c5bfc3f5c3@xxxxxxxxxx
Hans, could you test the patchset out on your Cherry Trail (x86)-based
devices? After that we can merge it in into the kernels 5.8 and 5.9 if
there is no objections against the fix.
Note, in order to have the fix working for the older kernel all of patches
need to be backported.
Fixes: cc816969d7b5 ("serial: 8250_dw: Fix common clocks usage race condition")
Fixes: 868f3ee6e452 ("serial: 8250: Add 8250 port clock update method")
Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Serge Semin (3):
serial: 8250: Discard RTS/DTS setting from clock update method
serial: 8250: Skip uninitialized TTY port baud rate update
serial: 8250_dw: Fix clk-notifier/port suspend deadlock
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 54 ++++++++++-------------------
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 5 ++-
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
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