[PATCH] ti-st: use worker instead of calling st_int_write in wake up

From: Jacob Siverskog
Date: Fri Sep 11 2015 - 10:59:32 EST


From: Muhammad Hamza Farooq <mfarooq@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The wake up method is called with the port lock held. The st_int_write
method calls port->ops->write with tries to acquire the lock again,
causing CPU to wait infinitely. Right way to do is to write data to port
in worker thread.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Hamza Farooq <mfarooq@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Siverskog <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
index c8c6a36..6e3af8b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
@@ -460,6 +460,13 @@ static void st_int_enqueue(struct st_data_s *st_gdata, struct sk_buff *skb)
* - TTY layer when write's finished
* - st_write (in context of the protocol stack)
*/
+static void work_fn_write_wakeup(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct st_data_s *st_gdata = container_of(work, struct st_data_s,
+ work_write_wakeup);
+
+ st_tx_wakeup((void *)st_gdata);
+}
void st_tx_wakeup(struct st_data_s *st_data)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
@@ -812,8 +819,12 @@ static void st_tty_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty)
/* don't do an wakeup for now */
clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &tty->flags);

- /* call our internal wakeup */
- st_tx_wakeup((void *)st_gdata);
+ /*
+ * schedule the internal wakeup instead of calling directly to
+ * avoid lockup (port->lock needed in tty->ops->write is
+ * already taken here
+ */
+ schedule_work(&st_gdata->work_write_wakeup);
}

static void st_tty_flush_buffer(struct tty_struct *tty)
@@ -881,6 +892,9 @@ int st_core_init(struct st_data_s **core_data)
pr_err("unable to un-register ldisc");
return err;
}
+
+ INIT_WORK(&st_gdata->work_write_wakeup, work_fn_write_wakeup);
+
*core_data = st_gdata;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h b/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h
index c78dcfe..9b366ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h
+++ b/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct st_data_s {
unsigned long ll_state;
void *kim_data;
struct tty_struct *tty;
+ struct work_struct work_write_wakeup;
};

/*
--
1.9.1

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