From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit ff1cab374ad98f4b9f408525ca9c08992b4ed784 upstream. The BSP team noticed that there is spin/mutex lock issue on sh-sci when CPUFREQ is used. The issue is that the notifier function may call mutex_lock() while the spinlock is held, which can lead to a BUG(). This may happen if CPUFREQ is changed while another CPU calls clk_get_rate(). Taking the spinlock was added to the notifier function in commit e552de2413edad1a ("sh-sci: add platform device private data"), to protect the list of serial ports against modification during traversal. At that time the Common Clock Framework didn't exist yet, and clk_get_rate() just returned clk->rate without taking a mutex. Note that since commit d535a2305facf9b4 ("serial: sh-sci: Require a device per port mapping."), there's no longer a list of serial ports to traverse, and taking the spinlock became superfluous. To fix the issue, just remove the cpufreq notifier: 1. The notifier doesn't work correctly: all it does is update stored clock rates; it does not update the divider in the hardware. The divider will only be updated when calling sci_set_termios(). I believe this was broken back in 2004, when the old drivers/char/sh-sci.c driver (where the notifier did update the divider) was replaced by drivers/serial/sh-sci.c (where the notifier just updated port->uartclk). Cfr. full-history-linux commits 6f8deaef2e9675d9 ("[PATCH] sh: port sh-sci driver to the new API") and 3f73fe878dc9210a ("[PATCH] Remove old sh-sci driver"). 2. On modern SoCs, the sh-sci parent clock rate is no longer related to the CPU clock rate anyway, so using a cpufreq notifier is futile. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 39 --------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 39 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c index 537750261aaa..53c24978353c 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ #include <linux/console.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h> #include <linux/serial_sci.h> -#include <linux/notifier.h> #include <linux/pm_runtime.h> #include <linux/cpufreq.h> #include <linux/clk.h> @@ -97,8 +96,6 @@ struct sci_port { struct timer_list rx_timer; unsigned int rx_timeout; #endif - - struct notifier_block freq_transition; }; /* Function prototypes */ @@ -1008,30 +1005,6 @@ static irqreturn_t sci_mpxed_interrupt(int irq, void *ptr) return ret; } -/* - * Here we define a transition notifier so that we can update all of our - * ports' baud rate when the peripheral clock changes. - */ -static int sci_notifier(struct notifier_block *self, - unsigned long phase, void *p) -{ - struct sci_port *sci_port; - unsigned long flags; - - sci_port = container_of(self, struct sci_port, freq_transition); - - if ((phase == CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE) || - (phase == CPUFREQ_RESUMECHANGE)) { - struct uart_port *port = &sci_port->port; - - spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); - port->uartclk = clk_get_rate(sci_port->iclk); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags); - } - - return NOTIFY_OK; -} - static struct sci_irq_desc { const char *desc; irq_handler_t handler; @@ -2427,9 +2400,6 @@ static int sci_remove(struct platform_device *dev) { struct sci_port *port = platform_get_drvdata(dev); - cpufreq_unregister_notifier(&port->freq_transition, - CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER); - uart_remove_one_port(&sci_uart_driver, &port->port); sci_cleanup_single(port); @@ -2487,15 +2457,6 @@ static int sci_probe(struct platform_device *dev) if (ret) return ret; - sp->freq_transition.notifier_call = sci_notifier; - - ret = cpufreq_register_notifier(&sp->freq_transition, - CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER); - if (unlikely(ret < 0)) { - sci_cleanup_single(sp); - return ret; - } - #ifdef CONFIG_SH_STANDARD_BIOS sh_bios_gdb_detach(); #endif -- 2.8.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html