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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in pmac_zilog
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:13:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085901218.10399.11.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040529234258.42a2dc64.davem@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 16:42, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 13:40:55 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes a typo preventing channel B from working on the Rx
> > path of pmac zilog (never calling tty_flip_*). I think I never tested
> > channel B :)
> 
> Ben, why do you do the tty_flip_buffer_push() outside of
> the port lock?  Just because it's expensive and therefore
> this decreases the lock hold time, or is there some deadlock
> issue?
> 
> Sounds like I should make the change to sunzilog :-)

There is a deadlock issue. I triggered once when I had a bug where the
driver was flooding the input with zero's. All serial drivers seem to be
affected. Apparently, tty_flip_* may call back into your write() routine

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-30  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28  3:40 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-30  6:42 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-30  7:13   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-05-31  0:32     ` David S. Miller
2004-05-31  0:30       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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