The -rt patch triggers a lockdep warning for serial drivers if tty_flip_buffer_push() is called with uart_port->lock locked. This never shows up on UP kernels.
Release the port lock before calling tty_flip_buffer_push() and reacquire it after the call.
Similar stuff was already done for few other drivers in the past, like:
commit 2389b272168ceec056ca1d8a870a97fa9c26e11a Author: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Date: Tue May 29 21:53:50 2007 +0100
[ARM] 4417/1: Serial: Fix AMBA drivers locking
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org --- drivers/tty/serial/bfin_sport_uart.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/bfin_sport_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/bfin_sport_uart.c index 487c173..32d3926 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/bfin_sport_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/bfin_sport_uart.c @@ -161,11 +161,12 @@ static irqreturn_t sport_uart_rx_irq(int irq, void *dev_id) if (!uart_handle_sysrq_char(&up->port, ch)) tty_insert_flip_char(port, ch, TTY_NORMAL); } - /* XXX this won't deadlock with lowlat? */ - tty_flip_buffer_push(port);
spin_unlock(&up->port.lock);
+ /* XXX this won't deadlock with lowlat? */ + tty_flip_buffer_push(port); + return IRQ_HANDLED; }