Re: [PATCH] Philips PNX8550 ip3106 driver deadlock fix

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:54:36PM +0300, Vladimir A. Barinov wrote:

> This is a patch that fixes spin_lock deadlock in serial ip3106 driver.
> The spin_lock_irq(&port->lock,flags) is already called in generic driver 
> serial_core.c before
> port->ops->start_tx().
> So the second call of spin_lock_irq(&port->lock, flags) leads to 
> deadlock. This could be verified in PREEMPT_DESCTOP case when
> these options are enabled:
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y

Serial drivers are maintained by rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk, please send
to him.

  Ralf