[PATCH 4/4] tty/serial: atmel: enforce tasklet init and termination sequences
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Jun 25 13:39:59 PDT 2016
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:05:49PM +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> As some race conditions are identified in the termination process of tasklets,
> enforce the atmel_shutdown() sequence. This way we make sure that no new
> tasklets or software timer are scheduled during shutdown process.
>
> An atomic flag is positioned to give this information throughout the code.
>
> We also remove tasklet_disable() calls that were leading to deadlocks while
> stopping the driver. A simpler init/kill sequence is used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
You obviously didn't even test build this patch, as it breaks the build :(
please be more careful...
greg k-h
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