linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] serial: qcom_geni

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Date:   Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:47:07 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:     linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        jslaby@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] serial: qcom_geni_serial: Finish supporting sysrq

Quoting Douglas Anderson (2018-10-29 11:07:01)
> The geni serial driver already had some sysrq code in it, but since
> SUPPORT_SYSRQ wasn't defined the code didn't do anything useful.
> Let's make it useful by adding that define using the same formula
> found in other serial drivers.
> 
> In order to prevent deadlock, we'll take a page from the
> 'msm_serial.c' where the spinlock is released around
> uart_handle_sysrq_char().  This seemed better than copying from
> '8250_port.c' where we skip locking in the console_write function
> since the '8250_port.c' method can cause lockdep warnings when
> dropping into kgdb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>

Given that it's the same as msm_serial.c, and I wrote the msm_serial.c
"hack" then:

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>