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When configured with UART_16550_COMPATIBLE=NO or in versions prior to the introduction of this option, the Designware UART will ignore writes to the LCR if the UART is busy. The current workaround saves a copy of the last written LCR and re-writes it in the ISR for a special interrupt that is raised when a write was ignored. Unfortunately, interrupts are typically disabled prior to performing a sequence of register writes that include the LCR so the point at which the retry occurs is too late. An example is serial8250_do_set_termios() where an ignored LCR write results in the baud divisor not being set and instead a garbage character is sent out the transmitter. Furthermore, since serial_port_out() offers no way to indicate failure, a serious effort must be made to ensure that the LCR is actually updated before returning back to the caller. This is difficult, however, as a UART that was busy during the first attempt is likely to still be busy when a subsequent attempt is made unless some extra action is taken. This updated workaround reads back the LCR after each write to confirm that the new value was accepted by the hardware. Should the hardware ignore a write, the TX/RX FIFOs are cleared and the receive buffer read before attempting to rewrite the LCR out of the hope that doing so will force the UART into an idle state. While this may seem unnecessarily aggressive, writes to the LCR are used to change the baud rate, parity, stop bit, or data length so the data that may be lost is likely not important. Admittedly, this is far from ideal but it seems to be the best that can be done given the hardware limitations. Lastly, the revised workaround doesn't touch the LCR in the ISR, so it avoids the possibility of a "serial8250: too much work for irq" lock up. This problem is rare in real situations but can be reproduced easily by wiring up two UARTs and running the following commands. # stty -F /dev/ttyS1 echo # stty -F /dev/ttyS2 echo # cat /dev/ttyS1 & [1] 375 # echo asdf > /dev/ttyS1 asdf [ 27.700000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.700000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.710000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.710000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.720000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.720000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.730000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.730000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 [ 27.740000] serial8250: too much work for irq96 Signed-off-by: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Markus Mayer <markus.mayer@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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