Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix del_timer_sync() vs timer routine deadlock

[Nikita Yushchenko]

03.12.2016 10:06, Bhuvanchandra DV ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On 12/03/2016 02:58 AM, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
> 
>>>> Problem found via lockdep:
>>>>
>>>> - lpuart_set_termios() calls del_timer_sync(&sport->lpuart_timer) while
>>>>    holding sport->port.lock
>>>>
>>>> - sport->lpuart_timer routine is lpuart_timer_func() that calls
>>>>    lpuart_copy_rx_to_tty() that acquires same lock.
>>>>
>>>> To fix, move Rx DMA stopping out of lock, as it already is in other
>>>> places
>>>> in the same file.
>>>>
>>>> While at it, also make Rx DMA start/stop code to look the same is in
>>>> other places in the same file.
>>> Yeah I saw that too, never really came around to look closer into it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking into it.
>>>
>>> You removed the check whether there was an old configuration, I think
>>> the idea of that was that we only resize DMA if it was configured
>>> differently before...
>> Per my code reading, checking for sport->lpuart_dma_rx_use should be
>> enough, this flag will be set only if DMA was previously enabled,
> 
> The check is to make sure the reconfiguration of DMA is done only when
> the baudrate is altered.

Then, ok to use

if (old && sport->lpuart_dma_rx_use) {...}

in both places?