Re: Uartlite - ulite_transmit

[Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>]

Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Michal" == Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Michal> Hi Peter,
>  Michal> sorry for delay. I had to look at another issue.
> 
> No problem.
> 
>  Michal> Below is full log:
>  Michal> 1. I setup baudrate to 50. (It could be possible to set it up to 0 too)
>  Michal> That's why I think that doesn't matter what baudrate is setup.
> 
>  Michal> 2. You see where ulite_startup is called. It is called only once.
> 
> Ok, good.
> 
>  Michal> 3. You see that there is no call __uart_wait_until_sent(). It could be
>  Michal> called for ASYNC mode. The second thing is __uart_wait_until_sent
>  Michal> function is checking if tx fifo is empty not circ buffer is empty.
> 
> Yes, that's afaik what that function should do.
> 
>  Michal> 4. Next thing is that in uart_close. port->count is 2 which means that
>  Michal> the executing path is
>  Michal> 	if (port->count) {
>  Michal> 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
>  Michal> 		goto done;
>  Michal> 	}
>  Michal> which means that there is no chance to call __uart_wait_until_sent
>  Michal> function anyway.
> 
> And no buffer flushing, so that's fine.
> 
>  Michal> 5. I did one modification to add simple while loop till circ buffer is
>  Michal> empty to the same location to see what happen (timouts are bogus
>  Michal> values).
> 
>  Michal> if (port->count) {
>  Michal> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
>  Michal> 	printk("************ %x %x\n", (&uport->state->xmit)->tail,
>  Michal> (&uport->state->xmit)->head);
>  Michal> 	while (!uart_circ_empty(&uport->state->xmit)) {
>  Michal> 		msleep_interruptible(jiffies_to_msecs((uport->timeout - HZ/50)));
>  Michal> 		if (signal_pending(current))
>  Michal> 			break;
>  Michal> 		if (time_after(jiffies, jiffies + uport->timeout))
>  Michal> 			break;
>  Michal> 	}
>  Michal> 	printk("************\n");
>  Michal> 	goto done;
>  Michal> }
> 
> Ok, so this shows that there's still data in the circular buffer when
> uart is closed, like expected.
> 
> For me, it all looks normal:
> 
> 1. serial port gets opened, uart_open -> uart_startup -> ulite_startup
>    gets called, ASYNC_INITIALIZED gets set, circular buffer and hardware
>    TX fifo cleared.

But ASYNC_INITIALIZED is not set.

> 
> 2. Some time later serial port gets opened again, and uart_startup is a
>    NOP because ASYNC_INITIALIZED is set. No circular buffer / hw fifo
>    clear.
> 
> 3. serial port gets closed, uart_close is a NOP because port->count > 0
> 
> 4. serial port gets opened again, NOP like in 2.
> 
> The problem is the uart_flush_buffer() call we see after uart_open() in
> 4. If doesn't seem to come from serial_core (only called from uart_close
> / uart_hangup), so presumably it comes from the TTY core or
> userspace. Could you add a bit more debug to figure out where exactly it
> comes from?

ok. will do.

Thanks,
Michal

> 
>  Michal> ************
>  Michal> uart_open(0) called
>  Michal> uart_flush_buffer(0) called
> 


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