[PATCH RT 1/6] drivers-tty-pl011-irq-disable-madness.patch

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
index b69356c..7b29c92 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
@@ -1788,13 +1788,19 @@ pl011_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s, unsigned int count)
 
 	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
@@ -1816,8 +1822,7 @@ pl011_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s, unsigned int count)
 	writew(old_cr, uap->port.membase + UART011_CR);
 
 	if (locked)
-		spin_unlock(&uap->port.lock);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uap->port.lock, flags);
 
 	clk_disable(uap->clk);
 }
-- 
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