Re: [PATCH 1/3] tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: Fix kdb/kgdb after port shutdown (again)

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 10:47:21 EST


On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 4:33 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit d8aca2f96813 ("tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: stop operations
> in progress at shutdown") was basically a straight revert of the
> commit it claims to fix without any explanation of why the problems
> talked about in the original patch were no longer relevant. Indeed,
> commit d8aca2f96813 ("tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: stop operations
> in progress at shutdown") re-introduces the same problem that commit
> e83766334f96 ("tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: No need to stop tx/rx on
> UART shutdown") fixed.
>
> The problems are very easy to see by simply doing this on a
> sc7180-based Chromebook:
>
> 1. Boot in developer mode with serial console enabled and kdb setup on
> the serial console.
> 2. via ssh: stop console-ttyMSM0; echo g > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> When you do the above you'll see the "kdb" prompt printed on the
> serial console but be unable to interact with it.
>
> Let's fix the problem again by noting that the console port is never
> configured in DMA mode and thus we don't need to stop things for the
> console.
>
> Fixes: d8aca2f96813 ("tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: stop operations in progress at shutdown")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> index d69592e5e2ec..74a0e074c2de 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> @@ -1070,8 +1070,10 @@ static int setup_fifos(struct qcom_geni_serial_port *port)
> static void qcom_geni_serial_shutdown(struct uart_port *uport)
> {
> disable_irq(uport->irq);
> - qcom_geni_serial_stop_tx(uport);
> - qcom_geni_serial_stop_rx(uport);
> + if (!uart_console(uport)) {
> + qcom_geni_serial_stop_tx(uport);
> + qcom_geni_serial_stop_rx(uport);
> + }
> }
>
> static int qcom_geni_serial_port_setup(struct uart_port *uport)
> --
> 2.40.0.rc0.216.gc4246ad0f0-goog
>

And also:

Tested-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>