The BSP team noticed that there is spin/mutex lock issue on sh-sci when
CPUFREQ is used. The issue is that the notifier function may call
mutex_lock() while the spinlock is held, which can lead to a BUG().
This may happen if CPUFREQ is changed while another CPU calls
clk_get_rate().
Taking the spinlock was added to the notifier function in commit
e552de2413 ("sh-sci: add platform device private data"), to
protect the list of serial ports against modification during traversal.
At that time the Common Clock Framework didn't exist yet, and
clk_get_rate() just returned clk->rate without taking a mutex.
Note that since commit d535a2305f ("serial: sh-sci: Require a
device per port mapping."), there's no longer a list of serial ports to
traverse, and taking the spinlock became superfluous.
To fix the issue, just remove the cpufreq notifier:
1. The notifier doesn't work correctly: all it does is update stored
clock rates; it does not update the divider in the hardware.
The divider will only be updated when calling sci_set_termios().
I believe this was broken back in 2004, when the old
drivers/char/sh-sci.c driver (where the notifier did update the
divider) was replaced by drivers/serial/sh-sci.c (where the
notifier just updated port->uartclk).
Cfr. full-history-linux commits 6f8deaef2e9675d9 ("[PATCH] sh: port
sh-sci driver to the new API") and 3f73fe878dc9210a ("[PATCH]
Remove old sh-sci driver").
2. On modern SoCs, the sh-sci parent clock rate is no longer related
to the CPU clock rate anyway, so using a cpufreq notifier is
futile.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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