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Alex Williamson 01c194d927 serial 8250: tighten test for using backup timer
Thomas Koeller had reported an issue where a device that had been making use
of the UART_BUG_TXEN code in the 8250 driver was mistakenly being caught by
the backup timer test, causing the device to work improperly.

To fix this, tighten the test requirements to enable the backup timer
workaround.

The backup timer is really meant to catch UARTs that don't re-assert the THRE
interrupt.  The expectation is that they do initially assert THRE.  This patch
clarifies the test.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:30 -07:00
Alan Cox e991a2bd4f Fix tty speed handling on 8250
We try and write the correct speed back but the serial midlayer already
mangles the speed on us and that means if we request B0 we report back B9600
when we should not.  For now we'll hack around this in the drivers and serial
code, pending a better long term solution.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:29 -07:00
Jason Wessel f2d937f3bf consoles: polling support, kgdboc
polled console handling support, to access a console in an irq-less
way while in debug or irq context.

absolutely zero impact as long as CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL is disabled.
(which is the default)

[ jan.kiszka@siemens.com: lots of cleanups ]
[ mingo@elte.hu: redesign, splitups, cleanups. ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 20:05:37 +02:00
Alan Cox b4c502a709 8250: enable rate reporting via termios
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:25 -08:00
Alan Cox 6f803cd08f serial8250: coding style
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:25 -08:00
Alan Cox 3e8d4e2075 serial: Coding style
Coding style tweaks and printk levels.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:10 -08:00
Will Newton 74a1974172 8250.c: support specifying DW APB UARTs in device platform_data
Allow the private_data field to be specified in platform_data for the
standard 8250/16550 UART.  This field is used by DW APB type UARTs and
without this patch it's only possible to set this field when registering
the port by hand.  If private_data is not set then the driver will
potentially oops with a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:09 -08:00
Corey Minyard ad4c2aa635 Serial 8250: handle saving the clear-on-read bits from the LSR and MSR
Reading the LSR clears the break, parity, frame error, and overrun bits in
the 8250 chip, but these are not being saved in all places that read the
LSR.  Same goes for the MSR delta bits.  Save the LSR bits off whenever the
lsr is read so they can be handled later in the receive routine.  Save the
MSR bits to be handled in the modem status routine.

Also, clear the stored bits and clear the interrupt registers before
enabling interrupts, to avoid handling old values of the stored bits in the
interrupt routines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up pre-existing code]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:52:44 -07:00
Daniel Ritz b6b1d87785 serial: fix 8250 early console setup
the early setup function serial8250_console_early_setup() can be called
from non __init code (eg. hotpluggable serial ports like serial_cs) so
remove the __init from the call chain to avoid crashes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-03 15:02:56 -07:00
Josh Boyer 4f640efb31 Use resource_size_t for serial port IO addresses
At present, various parts of the serial code use unsigned long to define
resource addresses.  This is a problem, because some 32-bit platforms have
physical addresses larger than 32-bits, and have mmio serial uarts located
above the 4GB point.

This patch changes the type of mapbase in both struct uart_port and struct
plat_serial8250_port to resource_size_t, which can be configured to be 64
bits on such platforms.  The mapbase in serial_struct can't safely be
changed, because that structure is user visible.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-24 12:24:58 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 18a8bd949d serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and
include/asm-x86_64/serial.h.  the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in
serial initializing stage.  the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=>
register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console
ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time.  need to wait till uart_add_one_port in
drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0.
that is too late.

Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier.  Make
it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature.
and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically.

new command line will be:
	console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
	console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
or
	earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
	earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8

it will print in very early stage:
	Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8')
	console [uart0] enabled
later for console it will print:
	console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0]

Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
David Woodhouse b5b82df6f4 NS16550A: Restore HS settings in EXCR2 on resume
After a suspend/resume cycle, the UART may have been reset into
low-speed mode -- either because it's actually been reset, or because
the firmware pokes at the old-style divisor registers. If we detected it
as a NS16550A SuperIO chip in the first place and set baud_base to
921600, then we should do so again in the resume path.

This patch adds that code to serial8250_resume_port(), and also makes
serial8250_resume() actually call serial8250_resume_port() for each port
instead of just calling uart_resume_port() directly. And thus fixes
serial port operation after suspend/resume.

It also fixes a bogus comment where we write the EXCR2 register with a
comment saying /* EXCR1 */

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:25:49 -07:00
Josh Boyer fef92c30d4 8250: Remove commented out irq cruft
Remove some obviously old interrupt disable/enable code that has been
commented out.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:15 -07:00
Thomas Koeller bd71c182d5 RM9000 serial driver
Add support for the integrated serial ports of the MIPS RM9122 processor
and its relatives.

The patch also does some whitespace cleanup.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:50 -07:00
Marc St-Jean beab697ab4 serial driver PMC MSP71xx
Serial driver patch for the PMC-Sierra MSP71xx devices.

There are three different fixes:

1 Fix for DesignWare APB THRE errata: In brief, this is a non-standard
  16550 in that the THRE interrupt will not re-assert itself simply by
  disabling and re-enabling the THRI bit in the IER, it is only re-enabled
  if a character is actually sent out.

  It appears that the "8250-uart-backup-timer.patch" in the "mm" tree
  also fixes it so we have dropped our initial workaround.  This patch now
  needs to be applied on top of that "mm" patch.

2 Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write: The DesignWare APB UART has a feature
  which causes a new Busy Detect interrupt to be generated if it's busy
  when the LCR is written.  This fix saves the value of the LCR and
  rewrites it after clearing the interrupt.

3 Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue: The SoC needs to
  ensure that writes that can cause interrupts to be cleared reach the UART
  before returning from the ISR.  This fix reads a non-destructive register
  on the UART so the read transaction completion ensures the previously
  queued write transaction has also completed.

Signed-off-by: Marc St-Jean <Marc_St-Jean@pmc-sierra.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:50 -07:00
Jiri Kosina 4bf3631cdb 8250: fix possible deadlock between serial8250_handle_port() and serial8250_interrupt()
Commit 40b36daa introduced possibility that serial8250_backup_timeout() ->
serial8250_handle_port() locks port.lock without disabling irqs, thus
allowing deadlock against interrupt handler (port.lock is acquired in
serial8250_interrupt()).

Spotted by lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24 08:23:09 -07:00
Taku Izumi fdc30b3d44 Fix possible NULL pointer access in 8250 serial driver
I encountered the following kernel panic.  The cause of this problem was
NULL pointer access in check_modem_status() in 8250.c.  I confirmed this
problem is fixed by the attached patch, but I don't know this is the
correct fix.

sadc[4378]: NaT consumption 2216203124768 [1]
Modules linked in: binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_mod thermal processor fan
container button sg e100 eepro100 mii ehci_hcd ohci_hcd

    Pid: 4378, CPU 0, comm: sadc
    psr : 00001210085a2010 ifs : 8000000000000289 ip : [<a000000100482071>]
    Not tainted
    ip is at check_modem_status+0xf1/0x360

    Call Trace:
    [<a000000100013940>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0
    [<a0000001000145a0>] show_regs+0x840/0x880
    [<a0000001000368e0>] die+0x1c0/0x2c0
    [<a000000100036a30>] die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80
    [<a000000100037c40>] ia64_fault+0x11e0/0x1300
    [<a00000010000bdc0>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x280
    [<a000000100482070>] check_modem_status+0xf0/0x360
    [<a000000100482300>] serial8250_get_mctrl+0x20/0xa0
    [<a000000100478170>] uart_read_proc+0x250/0x860
    [<a0000001001c16d0>] proc_file_read+0x1d0/0x4c0
    [<a0000001001394b0>] vfs_read+0x1b0/0x300
    [<a000000100139cd0>] sys_read+0x70/0xe0
    [<a00000010000bc20>] ia64_ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x20
    [<a000000000010620>] __kernel_syscall_via_break+0x0/0x20

Fix the possible NULL pointer access in check_modem_status() in 8250.c.  The
check_modem_status() would access 'info' member of uart_port structure, but it
is not initialized before uart_open() is called.  The check_modem_status() can
be called through /proc/tty/driver/serial before uart_open() is called.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi2005@soft.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24 08:23:07 -07:00
Thomas Koeller cc79aa9d28 [PATCH] 8250: Fix GCC4 signed/unsigned mismatch warning
Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:15 -08:00
Alex Williamson 40b36daad0 [PATCH] 8250 UART backup timer
The patch below works around a minor bug found in the UART of the remote
management card used in many HP ia64 and parisc servers (aka the Diva
UARTs).  The problem is that the UART does not reassert the THRE interrupt
if it has been previously cleared and the IIR THRI bit is re-enabled.  This
can produce a very annoying failure mode when used as a serial console,
allowing a boot/reboot to hang indefinitely until an RX interrupt kicks it
into working again (ie.  an unattended reboot could stall).

To solve this problem, a backup timer is introduced that runs alongside the
standard interrupt driven mechanism.  This timer wakes up periodically,
checks for a hang condition and gets characters moving again.  This backup
mechanism is only enabled if the UART is detected as having this problem,
so systems without these UARTs will have no additional overhead.

This version of the patch incorporates previous comments from Pavel and
removes races in the bug detection code.  The test is now done before the
irq linking to prevent races with interrupt handler clearing the THRE
interrupt.  Short delays and syncs are also added to ensure the device is
able to update register state before the result is tested.

Aristeu says:

  this was tested on the following HP machines and solved the problem:
  rx2600, rx2620, rx1600 and rx1620s.

hpa says:

  I have seen this same bug in soft UART IP from "a major vendor."

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:52 -08:00
Thomas Hoehn 482120084d [PATCH] Perle multimodem card (PCI-RAS) detection
Get the Perle quad-modem PCI card (PCI-RAS4) detected by serial driver.  It
may also get the PCI-RAS8 running, but can't guarantee as I didn't had one for
testing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hoehn <thomas.hoehn@avocent.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:33 -08:00
Vivek Goyal 118c0ace1b [PATCH] x86-64: modpost add more symbols to whitelist pattern2
o MODPOST generates warning for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
  and serial console support is enabled.

o Serial console setup function, serial8250_console_setup(), is a non __init
  function and it calls functions which are of type __init().
  (uart_parse_options() and uart_set_options()). Assuming, setup will
  be called during init time, changing serial8250_console_setup() to __init.

o Adding one more pattern to modpost whitelist. Console drivers might
  have *_console structures containing references to setup functions which
  can be of __init type. Don't generate warnings for those.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'serial8250_console' (at offset 0xc05a33d8) and 'serial8250_reg'

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
Alan Cox 606d099cdd [PATCH] tty: switch to ktermios
This is the grungy swap all the occurrences in the right places patch that
goes with the updates.  At this point we have the same functionality as
before (except that sgttyb() returns speeds not zero) and are ready to
begin turning new stuff on providing nobody reports lots of bugs

If you are a tty driver author converting an out of tree driver the only
impact should be termios->ktermios name changes for the speed/property
setting functions from your upper layers.

If you are implementing your own TCGETS function before then your driver
was broken already and its about to get a whole lot more painful for you so
please fix it 8)

Also fill in c_ispeed/ospeed on init for most devices, although the current
code will do this for you anyway but I'd like eventually to lose that extra
paranoia

[akpm@osdl.org: bluetooth fix]
[mp3@de.ibm.com: sclp fix]
[mp3@de.ibm.com: warning fix for tty3270]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix tty_ioctl powerpc build]
[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: fix ->set_termios declaration]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
David Howells 7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6f3a28f7d1 Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: (21 commits)
  [SERIAL] add PNP IDs for FPI based touchscreens
  [SERIAL] Magic SysRq SAK does nothing on serial consoles
  [SERIAL] tickle NMI watchdog on serial output.
  [SERIAL] Fix oops when removing suspended serial port
  [SERIAL] Fix resume handling bug
  [SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusions
  [SERIAL] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/serial/8250_pci.c
  [SERIAL] OMAP1510 serial fix for 115200 baud
  [SERIAL] returning proper error from serial core driver
  [SERIAL] Make uart_line_info() correctly tell MMIO from I/O port
  [SERIAL] suspend/resume handlers don't have level arg anymore
  [SERIAL] 8250 resourse management fixes
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: Add quirk for brainboxes 2-port RS232 card
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: handle Nokia multi->single port bodge via config quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: add configuration quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: Convert Oxford 950 / Possio GCC wakeup quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: convert IBM post-init handling to a quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: allow wildcarded quirks
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: convert multi-port table to quirk table
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: Use clean up multiport card detection
  ...
2006-10-03 09:13:29 -07:00
Dave Jones e480af09c4 [SERIAL] tickle NMI watchdog on serial output.
Serial is _slow_ sometimes. So slow, that the NMI watchdog kicks in.

NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU2CPU 2
Modules linked in: loop usb_storage md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc pcdPid: 3138, comm: gpm Not tainted 2.6.11-1.1290_FC4smp
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80273b8a>] <ffffffff80273b8a>{serial_in+106}
RSP: 0018:ffff81003afc3d50  EFLAGS: 00000002
RAX: 0000000000000020 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 00000000000003fd RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: ffffffff804dcd60
RBP: 00000000000024fc R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000033
R10: ffff81001beb7c20 R11: 0000000000000020 R12: ffffffff804dcd60
R13: ffffffff804ade76 R14: 000000000000002b R15: 000000000000002c
FS:  00002aaaaaac4920(0000) GS:ffffffff804fca00(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00002aaaaabcb000 CR3: 000000003c0d0000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process gpm (pid: 3138, threadinfo ffff81003afc2000, task ffff81003eb63780)
Stack: ffffffff80275f2e 0000000000000000 ffffffff80448380 0000000000007d6b
       000000000000002c fffffffffffffbbf 0000000000000292 0000000000008000
       ffffffff80138e8c 0000000000007d97
Call Trace:<ffffffff80275f2e>{serial8250_console_write+270} <ffffffff80138e8c>{__call_console_drivers+76}
       <ffffffff8013914b>{release_console_sem+315} <ffffffff80260325>{con_open+149}
       <ffffffff80254e99>{tty_open+537} <ffffffff80192713>{chrdev_open+387}
       <ffffffff80188824>{dentry_open+260} <ffffffff80188994>{filp_open+68}
       <ffffffff80187b73>{get_unused_fd+227} <ffffffff80188a6c>{sys_open+76}
       <ffffffff8010ebc6>{tracesys+209}

Code: 0f b6 c0 c3 66 90 41 57 49 89 f7 41 56 41 be 00 01 00 00 41
console shuts up ...

I initially did the patch below a year ago for the Fedora kernel, and have
been keeping it up to date since.  I recently got the same thing happening
on a vanilla kernel, so figured it was time to repost this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-10-01 20:03:19 +01:00