Re: Uartlite - ulite_transmit

[Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>]

Hi Peter,

> Hi,
> 
>  >> 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?
> 
>  Michal> Last week I have also implemented simple ioctl function for
>  Michal> uartlite - just printk to see what happen. Look at the second
>  Michal> log below.
> 
>  Michal> uart_open(0) called
>  Michal> ulite_ioctl 5401 bff76a18
>  Michal> n_tty_ioctl
>  Michal> ulite_ioctl 540b 2
>  Michal> n_tty_ioctl
>  Michal> n_tty_ioctl_helper TCFLSH
>  Michal> tty_perform_flush TCIOFLUSH
>  Michal> tty_perform_flush TCOFLUSH
>  Michal> tty_driver_flush_buffer
>  Michal> uart_flush_buffer(0) called
> 
> So your userspace is calling tcflush, and serial_core responds by
> flushing (dropping) the buffer. That seems like expected behaviour to
> me.
> 
> This is presumably from the busybox getty applet, which does:
> 
> static void termios_init(struct termios *tp, int speed, struct options *op)
> {
> 	speed_t ispeed, ospeed;
> 	/*
> 	 * Initial termios settings: 8-bit characters, raw-mode, blocking i/o.
> 	 * Special characters are set after we have read the login name; all
> 	 * reads will be done in raw mode anyway. Errors will be dealt with
> 	 * later on.
> 	 */
> 	/* flush input and output queues, important for modems! */
> 	tcflush(0, TCIOFLUSH);
> 
> You could change that to a tcdrain() if that's not what you want.
> 

Great that's work. Just for the record it is tcdrain(STDOUT_FILENO);
Patch against busybox 1.14.3 version is below. Maybe worth to added it 
mainline busybox.

Thanks for your big help.
Michal


diff --git 
a/software/petalinux-dist/user/busybox/busybox-1.14.3/loginutils/getty.c 
b/software/petalinux-dist/user/busybox/busybo
index 24a182f..4c99e92 100644
--- a/software/petalinux-dist/user/busybox/busybox-1.14.3/loginutils/getty.c
+++ b/software/petalinux-dist/user/busybox/busybox-1.14.3/loginutils/getty.c
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ static void termios_init(struct termios *tp, int 
speed, struct options *op)
          * later on.
          */
  #ifdef __linux__
+       /* wait until all output written to the stdout has been 
transmitted */
+       tcdrain(STDOUT_FILENO);
         /* flush input and output queues, important for modems! */
         ioctl(0, TCFLSH, TCIOFLUSH); /* tcflush(0, TCIOFLUSH)? - same */
  #endif


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