Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_omap: provide complete custom startup & shutdown callbacks

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> [150526 07:14]:
> On 05/20/2015 04:07 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > The currently in-use port->startup and port->shutdown are "okay". The
> > startup part for instance does the tiny omap extra part and invokes
> > serial8250_do_startup() for the remaining pieces. The workflow in
> > serial8250_do_startup() is okay except for the part where UART_RX is
> > read without a check if there is something to read. I tried to
> > workaround it in commit 0aa525d11859 ("tty: serial: 8250_core: read only
> > RX if there is something in the FIFO") but then reverted it later in
> > commit ca8bb4aefb9 ("serial: 8250: Revert "tty: serial: 8250_core: read
> > only RX if there is something in the FIFO"").
> > 
> > This is the second attempt to get it to work on older OMAPs without
> > breaking other chips this time
> > Peter Hurley suggested to pull in the few needed lines from
> > serial8250_do_startup() and drop everything else that is not required
> > including making it simpler like using just request_irq() instead the
> > chain handler like it is doing now.
> > So lets try that.
> 
> Thanks, Sebastian.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>

Can we please get this into the v4.1-rc series?

It fixes the following:

Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x1028) at 0xfa06a000                                                       
...                                                                                                                           
[<c04217e8>] (mem_serial_in) from [<c0425480>] (serial8250_do_startup+0xe4/0x694)
[<c0425480>] (serial8250_do_startup) from [<c0427e48>] (omap_8250_startup+0x70/0x144)
[<c0427e48>] (omap_8250_startup) from [<c0425a54>] (serial8250_startup+0x24/0x30)
[<c0425a54>] (serial8250_startup) from [<c04208e4>] (uart_startup.part.14+0x8c/0x1a0)
[<c04208e4>] (uart_startup.part.14) from [<c0420fec>] (uart_open+0xd8/0x134)
[<c0420fec>] (uart_open) from [<c0403e50>] (tty_open+0xdc/0x5e0)
[<c0403e50>] (tty_open) from [<c018f008>] (chrdev_open+0xac/0x188)

Regards,

Tony