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On Tuesday 06 July 2004 06:12 pm, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 07:54 am, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Uneventful on alpha, needed a make rpm compilefix Andi's got queued for
> >> the next merge on x86-64 and otherwise uneventful there.
> >> OTOH, various things made sparc64 a living Hell that took about 9
> >> hours of solid compile/boot/crash drudgery to carry out bisection
> >> search on to find the offending patches.
> >> First, I had to back out bk-input because it has a sysfsification patch
> >> that deadlocks sunzilog.c at boot.
>
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:51:16PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Ok, I think I know what the problem is - it should be an oops rather than a
> > deadlock though - serial drivers are initialized before serio core when serio
> > bus structure is not registered with driver core yet. Could you please try
> > the patch below - I do not have hardware to test it:
>
> Unfortunately this didn't repair it. Bootlog attached. The failure to
> respond to "send brk" indicates deadlock with interrupts disabled.
>

The only suspicious thing that I see is that sunzilog tries to register its
serio ports with spinlock held and interrupts off. I wonder if that is what
causing a deadlock. Could you please try applying this patch on top of the
changes to the drivers/Makefile that I sent earlier.

--
Dmitry


===== drivers/serial/sunzilog.c 1.44 vs edited =====
--- 1.44/drivers/serial/sunzilog.c 2004-06-28 22:45:23 -05:00
+++ edited/drivers/serial/sunzilog.c 2004-07-06 23:46:54 -05:00
@@ -1529,7 +1529,6 @@
static void __init sunzilog_init_kbdms(struct uart_sunzilog_port *up, int channel)
{
int baud, brg;
- struct serio *serio;

if (channel == KEYBOARD_LINE) {
up->flags |= SUNZILOG_FLAG_CONS_KEYB;
@@ -1546,8 +1545,15 @@
up->curregs[R15] = BRKIE;
brg = BPS_TO_BRG(baud, ZS_CLOCK / ZS_CLOCK_DIVISOR);
sunzilog_convert_to_zs(up, up->cflag, 0, brg);
+ sunzilog_set_mctrl(&up->port, TIOCM_DTR | TIOCM_RTS);
+ __sunzilog_startup(up);
+}

#ifdef CONFIG_SERIO
+static void __init sunzilog_register_serio(struct uart_sunzilog_port *up, int channel)
+{
+ struct serio *serio;
+
up->serio = serio = kmalloc(sizeof(struct serio), GFP_KERNEL);
if (serio) {

@@ -1576,11 +1582,8 @@
printk(KERN_WARNING "zs%d: not enough memory for serio port\n",
channel);
}
-#endif
-
- sunzilog_set_mctrl(&up->port, TIOCM_DTR | TIOCM_RTS);
- __sunzilog_startup(up);
}
+#endif

static void __init sunzilog_init_hw(void)
{
@@ -1624,6 +1627,11 @@
}

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIO
+ if (i == KEYBOARD_LINE || i == MOUSE_LINE)
+ sunzilog_register_serio(up, i);
+#endif
}
}

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