It has been discovered that there is a potential deadlock between the clock-change-notifier thread and the UART port suspending one: CPU0 (suspend CPU/UART) CPU1 (update clock) ---- ---- lock(&port->mutex); lock((work_completion)(&data->clk_work)); lock(&port->mutex); lock((work_completion)(&data->clk_work)); *** DEADLOCK *** The best way to fix this is to eliminate the CPU0 port->mutex/work-completion scenario. So we suggest to register and unregister the clock-notifier during the DW APB UART port probe/remove procedures, instead of doing that at the points of the port startup/shutdown. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/f1cd5c75-9cda-6896-a4e2-42c5bfc3f5c3@redhat.com Fixes: cc816969d7b5 ("serial: 8250_dw: Fix common clocks usage race condition") Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923161950.6237-4-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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