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    TTY: serial, move locking in uart_close · bafb0bd2
    Jiri Slaby authored
    
    
    So now, when we handle CLOSING flag, there is no point to hold
    port->mutex over the start of uart_close.
    
    Yes, there are still several things to reason about:
    * port->count etc is and always was protected by a spinlock
    * ->stop_rx is protected by a spinlock. Otherwise it would
      race with interrupts.
    * uart_wait_until_sent -- that one is already called without
      port->mutex from set_termios and tty_set_ldisc. Should anything
      be protected there, it would be tx_empty. And by a spinlock.
      8250 does this internally...
    
    This step is needed to fix system stalls. To not create an AB-BA lock
    dependency (see next patches).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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