Subject: tty/serial/pl011: Make the locking work on RT From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Tue Jan 8 21:36:51 2013 +0100 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> The lock is a sleeping lock and local_irq_save() is not the optimsation we are looking for. Redo it to make it work on -RT and non-RT. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> --- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- @ drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c:2323 @ pl011_console_write(struct console *co, { struct uart_amba_port *uap = amba_ports[co->index]; unsigned int old_cr = 0, new_cr; - unsigned long flags; + unsigned long flags = 0; int locked = 1; clk_enable(uap->clk); - local_irq_save(flags); + /* + * local_irq_save(flags); + * + * This local_irq_save() is nonsense. If we come in via sysrq + * handling then interrupts are already disabled. Aside of + * that the port.sysrq check is racy on SMP regardless. + */ if (uap->port.sysrq) locked = 0; else if (oops_in_progress) - locked = spin_trylock(&uap->port.lock); + locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&uap->port.lock, flags); else - spin_lock(&uap->port.lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&uap->port.lock, flags); /* * First save the CR then disable the interrupts @ drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c:2366 @ pl011_console_write(struct console *co, pl011_write(old_cr, uap, REG_CR); if (locked) - spin_unlock(&uap->port.lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uap->port.lock, flags); clk_disable(uap->clk); }