Re: [PATCH 3/3] serial: 8250: omap: restore registers on shutdown

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

Hi Sebastian,

On 08/04/2015 07:58 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 08/03/2015 09:32 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> 
>>> You mean a function in 8250-dma API which does what I did just here
>>> with the wait_event() and the wake_up in the callback? That way I could
>>> move the termios_wait into the dma struct instead of keeping in the
>>> omap specific part. I am also not sure if OMAP is the only one that may
>>> hang here or the other people just didn't notice it yet.
>>
>> Exactly; and we need to fix DMA wrt x_char anyway.
>>
>> Going back to the dmaengine api, I think something like this might work
>> (as a first approximation):
>>
>> 	dma_sync_wait(dma->txchan, dma->tx_cookie);
>> 	dmaengine_pause(dma->txchan);
>>
>> 	/* remainder of set_termios */
>>
>> 	dmaengine_resume(dma->txchan);
>>
>> We could require 8250 core dma to support pause/resume.
> 
> I would prefer the waitqueue approach.
> You can't do this while holding the port lock. The lock is taken with
> irqs off so may not see the transfer completing.
> Why do you pause the channel? It may not work without an active
> descriptor and a start without "resume" should work. Also you must
> ensure that DMA's complete callback does not start another transfer if
> there is something queued up (that is why I had the tx_running dance).
> I am not sure if a transfer that is active and then paused will not
> trigger the hang bug if we change the termios in between.

I'll look at/test this this weekend, ok?

Regards,
Peter Hurley