TTY/Serial driver fix for 4.0-rc5

Here's a single 8250 serial driver that fixes a reported deadlock with
 the serial console and the tty driver.
 
 It's been in linux-next for a while now.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-4.0-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

Pull tty/serial driver fix from Greg KH:
 "Here's a single 8250 serial driver that fixes a reported deadlock with
  the serial console and the tty driver.

  It's been in linux-next for a while now"

* tag 'tty-4.0-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  serial: 8250_dw: Fix deadlock in LCR workaround
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Linus Torvalds 2015-03-22 11:54:29 -07:00
commit b2f45eeff2

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@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
/*
* FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
* dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
*/
}
}
@ -163,7 +166,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_outq(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
__raw_writeq(value & 0xff,
p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
/*
* FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
* dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
*/
}
}
#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
@ -187,7 +193,10 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writel(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
}
dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
/*
* FIXME: this deadlocks if port->lock is already held
* dev_err(p->dev, "Couldn't set LCR to %d\n", value);
*/
}
}