On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 03:33:39PM +0800, wigin.zeng wrote: > Need to add lock to protect the tty buffer in dma rx handler and serial > interrupt handler, there is chance that serial handler and dma handler > executing in same time in multi cores and RT enabled scenario. Are you sure? Why has this not been a problem before now? What changed? > Signed-off-by: wigin.zeng <wigin.zeng@xxxxxxx> I do not think you have a "." in the name you use to sign documents, right? Please use your real name here. > --- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c | 2 ++ > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 3 +++ > include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 + > 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c > index 890fa7ddaa7f..592b9906e276 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c > @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static void __dma_rx_complete(void *param) > struct dma_tx_state state; > int count; > > + spin_lock(&p->port.rx_lock); > dma->rx_running = 0; > dmaengine_tx_status(dma->rxchan, dma->rx_cookie, &state); > > @@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ static void __dma_rx_complete(void *param) > > tty_insert_flip_string(tty_port, dma->rx_buf, count); > p->port.icount.rx += count; > + spin_unlock(&p->port.rx_lock); > > tty_flip_buffer_push(tty_port); > } > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c > index 5775cbff8f6e..4d8662df8d61 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c > @@ -1780,6 +1780,7 @@ unsigned char serial8250_rx_chars(struct uart_8250_port *up, unsigned char lsr) > struct uart_port *port = &up->port; > int max_count = 256; > > + spin_lock(&port->rx_lock); > do { > serial8250_read_char(up, lsr); > if (--max_count == 0) > @@ -1787,6 +1788,7 @@ unsigned char serial8250_rx_chars(struct uart_8250_port *up, unsigned char lsr) > lsr = serial_in(up, UART_LSR); > } while (lsr & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI)); > > + spin_unlock(&port->rx_lock); > tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->state->port); > return lsr; > } > @@ -3267,6 +3269,7 @@ void serial8250_init_port(struct uart_8250_port *up) > struct uart_port *port = &up->port; > > spin_lock_init(&port->lock); > + spin_lock_init(&port->rx_lock); > port->ops = &serial8250_pops; > port->has_sysrq = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE); > > diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h > index c58cc142d23f..77980b6f0c27 100644 > --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h > +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h > @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise upstat_t; > > struct uart_port { > spinlock_t lock; /* port lock */ > + spinlock_t rx_lock; /* port rx lock */ Why can you not just use 'lock' here instead if this is really an issue? And doesn't this slow things down? thanks, greg k-h