linux-kernel - Re: RCU stall in 8250 serial driver Linux 4.15-rc1

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:40:32 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:     Shankara Pailoor <sp3485@...umbia.edu>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RCU stall in 8250 serial driver Linux 4.15-rc1

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:24:32 -0800
> Shankara Pailoor <sp3485@...umbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Sorry for that. Here is the stack trace. C Program below
>
>
>
>>  serial_in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:111 [inline]
>>  wait_for_xmitr+0x8a/0x1d0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2033
>>  serial8250_console_putchar+0x19/0x50 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3170
>>  uart_console_write+0x98/0xc0 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:1858
>
> The console is spinning in polled mode trying to write data to the
> console port, which it seems has gotten a bit stuck. Could be the
> hypervisor hits some kind of buffering limit, could be hypervisor
> interface broke.
>
> Either way the console interface is supposed to stall the machine to
> ensure the bytes always get out and if your serial port jams or gets
> massively behind then this will happen.

+1
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/21/480

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko