Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] tty: serial: owl: Add support for kernel debugger

[Jiri Slaby]

On 07. 01. 21, 19:16, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thank you for the review!
>
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 04:20:55PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:02:02PM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> > > Implement 'poll_put_char' and 'poll_get_char' callbacks in struct
> > > 'owl_uart_ops' that enables OWL UART to be used for kernel debugging
> > > over serial line.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]
>
> > > +
> > > +static void owl_uart_poll_put_char(struct uart_port *port, unsigned char ch)
> > > +{
> > > +	while (owl_uart_read(port, OWL_UART_STAT) & OWL_UART_STAT_TFFU)
> > > +		cpu_relax();
> >
> > Unbounded loops?  What could possibly go wrong?
> >
> > :(
> >
> > Please don't do that in the kernel, put a max bound on this.
>
> I didn't realize the issue since I had encountered this pattern in many
> other serial drivers, as well: altera_uart, arc_uart, atmel_serial, etc.
>
> > And are you _SURE_ that cpu_relax() is what you want to call here?
>
> I'm thinking of replacing the loop with 'readl_poll_timeout_atomic()',
> if that would be a better approach.

It might be better, yes. Either way, if you add a bound to the loop, you 
definitely need a more precise timing, so ndelay/udelay instead of 
cpu_relax.

thanks,
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