Re: 4.16 OMAP serial transmit corruption?

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> [180417 22:12]:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:31:35AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com> [180417 09:21]:
> > > On Monday 16 April 2018 09:15 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > > Also, I'm seeing an issue where the UARTs won't idle on init
> > > > with 8250_omap driver if connected to the wl12xx bluetooth port
> > > > unless I write some data to the port first. It does not seem
> > > > to be related to the rts/cts lines being wired as I've tested
> > > > muxing them out of the way.
> > > 
> > > If this instance of UART is using DMA then it might be due an errata
> > > worked around in AM33/AM43/DRA7:
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6784331/
> > 
> > It sure sounds similar but UART_ERRATA_CLOCK_DISABLE does not
> > seem to help with the reset. Also disabling DMA does not seem
> > to help. So far the only way to clear it seems to be to write
> > a character (TX) on the device. Then things work just fine
> > even without UART_ERRATA_CLOCK_DISABLE set. I'll try to debug
> > this more at some point.
> 
> Classic case of thread hijack.  So, Tony's idle problem gets more
> attention on _my_ thread than _my_ issue about TX corruption, yea,
> that's fair...  Come on guys, what about my problem, which is the
> subject of this thread?

Just trying to brainstorm what all can go wrong still :) OK so
it's not DMA then.

> I don't have CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA set, so DMA can't be the issue.

Is this happening also with v4.16 or with v4.17-rc1?

So you just edit something in vi and and on exit it happens?
Not happening here for me..

Regards,

Tony