linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] fixes for empty tx buffer breakage

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	peter@...leysoftware.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, sethb@...i.com, aaro.koskinen@....fi,
	sam@...nborg.org, tsbogend@...ha.franken.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fixes for empty tx buffer breakage

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:14:32 -0700

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 11:29:51AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> Cc: Seth Bollinger <sethb@...i.com>
>> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
>> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
>> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
>> 
>> Greg,
>> 
>> I completed the audit of serial drivers after reports that
>> several Sun serial drivers were broken by
>> commit 717f3bbab3c7628736ef738fdbf3d9a28578c26c,
>> 'serial_core: Fix conditional start_tx on ring buffer not empty'.
>> 
>> I apologize for not submitting this sooner. The delay was due to
>> an ongoing analysis of serial flow control prompted by Sam Ravnborg's
>> question:
>> 
>> On 06/10/2014 03:24 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> > I also noticed the typical pattern is:
>> > 
>> >      if (uart_circ_empty(xmit) || uart_tx_stopped(port))
>> > 
>> > Should you use this pattern also in sunsab.c?
>> 
>> Unfortunately, that analysis revealed that tx flow control is
>> largely SMP-unsafe, and it's fairly easy to corrupt the hardware
>> state wrt. the tty flow control state.
>> 
>> I'm still working on the solutions to that; they're too
>> extensive to submit for 3.16 anyway.
> 
> So these should go into 3.16-final?  Or 3.17?

Definitely 3.16, this regression is several releases old.
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