Commit 74c2107759 (serial: Use block_til_ready helper) and its fixup
3f582b8c11 (serial: fix termios settings in open) introduced a
regression on UV systems. The serial eventually freezes while being
used. It's completely unpredictable and sometimes needs a heap of
traffic to happen first.
To reproduce this, yast installation was used as it turned out to be
pretty reliable in reproducing. Especially during installation process
where one doesn't have an SSH daemon running. And no monitor as the HW
is completely headless. So this was fun to find. Given the machine
doesn't boot on vanilla before 2.6.36 final. (And the commits above
are older.)
Unless there is some bad race in the code, the hardware seems to be
pretty broken. Otherwise pure MSR read should not cause such a bug,
or?
So to prevent the bug, revert to the old behavior. I.e. read modem
status only if we really have to -- for non-CLOCAL set serials.
Non-CLOCAL works on this hardware OK, I tried. See? I don't.
And document that shit.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/6/573
References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718518
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Let's use the newly added helper to avoid stalls in drivers which are
already ported to tty_port helpers.
We have to ensure here, that there is no user of tty_port_close_start
and tty_port_close which holds port->mutex (or other) lock over them.
And sure, there is none.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The tty code should be in its own subdirectory and not in the char
driver with all of the cruft that is currently there.
Based on work done by Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jiri Slaby