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    serial: 8250: fix shared interrupts issues with SMP and RT kernels · 768aec0b
    Anton Vorontsov authored
    With SMP kernels _irqsave spinlock disables only local interrupts, while
    the shared serial interrupt could be assigned to the CPU that is not
    currently starting up the serial port.
    
    This might cause issues because serial8250_startup() routine issues
    IRQ-triggering operations before registering the port in the IRQ chain
    (though, this is fine to do and done explicitly because we don't want to
    process any interrupts on the port startup).
    
    With RT kernels and preemptable hardirqs, _irqsave spinlock does not
    disable local hardirqs, and the bug could be reproduced much easily:
    
    $ cat /dev/ttyS0 &
    $ cat /dev/ttyS1
    irq 42: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
    Call Trace:
    [C0475EB0] [C0008A98] show_stack+0x4c/0x1ac (unreliable)
    [C0475EF0] [C004BBD4] __report_bad_irq+0x34/0xb8
    [C0475F10] [C004BD38] note_interrupt+0xe0/0x308
    [C0475F50] [C004B09C] thread_simple_irq+0xdc/0x104
    [C0475F70] [C004B3FC] do_irqd+0x338/0x3c8
    [C0475FC0] [C00398E0] kthread+0xf8/0x100
    [C0475FF0] [C0011FE0] original_kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
    handlers:
    [<c02112c4>] (serial8250_interrupt+0x0/0x138)
    Disabling IRQ #42
    
    After this, all serial ports on the given IRQ are non-functional.
    
    To fix the issue we should explicitly disable shared IRQ before
    issuing any IRQ-triggering operations.
    
    I also changed spin_lock_irqsave to the ordinary spin_lock, since it
    seems to be safe: chain does not contain new port (yet), thus nobody
    will interfere us from the ISRs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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