An oops with irqs off (panic() from irqsafe hrtimer like the watchdog
timer) will lead to a lockdep warning on each invocation and as such
never completes.
Therefore we skip the trylock in the oops case.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 5568d70eee0c..138b1b985063 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -2850,9 +2850,9 @@ void serial8250_console_write(struct uart_8250_port *up,
const char *s,
serial8250_rpm_get(up);
- if (port->sysrq)
+ if (port->sysrq || oops_in_progress)
locked = 0;
- else if (oops_in_progress || in_kdb_printk())
+ else if (in_kdb_printk())
locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
else
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
--
2.8.0.rc3
