Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

[Erik Rull]

Hi all,

I've tested two kvm versions 77 and 88, both with the same behaviour:
I add a serial device with -serial /dev/ttyS0 to my guest and launched 
HyperTerm on my Windows Guest.
Additionally I plugged in a loopback plug on the serial connector that just 
routes back the data send back to the receive line (TXD -> RXD).
When I enter characters on the Hyperterm all characters are displayed 
except the last one that was sent.
When I plug in a real serial device and request its status via Hyperterm I 
get only back the first 16 chars (I expect 50) when I send an additional 
dummy character (sizeof: 16550 FIFO buffer). On my normal Windows PC it 
works as expected - so it seems to be an issue with kvm.

In the linux host, I don't see any changes in /proc/interrupts, the driver 
is opened and exclusively on this interrupt line.

Within the host the serial line works without any problems, and there, the 
interrupt counts increase during normal operation with a software that runs 
on the host and that uses this serial line.

What must I do to bring the serial line to real life with a complete 
communication without any data lost caused by missing interrupts? At the 
moment this is a key issue that has to be solved to continue my work with kvm.

Any Ideas? I also tested other IRQ lines and other ttyS* on the system - 
same behaviour.

Thanks in advance,

Erik

Re: Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

[Erik Rull]

Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've tested two kvm versions 77 and 88, both with the same behaviour:
> I add a serial device with -serial /dev/ttyS0 to my guest and launched 
> HyperTerm on my Windows Guest.
> Additionally I plugged in a loopback plug on the serial connector that 
> just routes back the data send back to the receive line (TXD -> RXD).
> When I enter characters on the Hyperterm all characters are displayed 
> except the last one that was sent.
> When I plug in a real serial device and request its status via Hyperterm 
> I get only back the first 16 chars (I expect 50) when I send an 
> additional dummy character (sizeof: 16550 FIFO buffer). On my normal 
> Windows PC it works as expected - so it seems to be an issue with kvm.
> 
> In the linux host, I don't see any changes in /proc/interrupts, the 
> driver is opened and exclusively on this interrupt line.
> 
> Within the host the serial line works without any problems, and there, 
> the interrupt counts increase during normal operation with a software 
> that runs on the host and that uses this serial line.
> 
> What must I do to bring the serial line to real life with a complete 
> communication without any data lost caused by missing interrupts? At the 
> moment this is a key issue that has to be solved to continue my work 
> with kvm.
> 
> Any Ideas? I also tested other IRQ lines and other ttyS* on the system - 
> same behaviour.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Erik
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fixed, apic on host side was disabled, kvm / qemu seems to need it.

Re: Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

[Erik Rull]

Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've tested two kvm versions 77 and 88, both with the same behaviour:
> I add a serial device with -serial /dev/ttyS0 to my guest and launched 
> HyperTerm on my Windows Guest.
> Additionally I plugged in a loopback plug on the serial connector that 
> just routes back the data send back to the receive line (TXD -> RXD).
> When I enter characters on the Hyperterm all characters are displayed 
> except the last one that was sent.
> When I plug in a real serial device and request its status via Hyperterm 
> I get only back the first 16 chars (I expect 50) when I send an 
> additional dummy character (sizeof: 16550 FIFO buffer). On my normal 
> Windows PC it works as expected - so it seems to be an issue with kvm.
> 
> In the linux host, I don't see any changes in /proc/interrupts, the 
> driver is opened and exclusively on this interrupt line.
> 
> Within the host the serial line works without any problems, and there, 
> the interrupt counts increase during normal operation with a software 
> that runs on the host and that uses this serial line.
> 
> What must I do to bring the serial line to real life with a complete 
> communication without any data lost caused by missing interrupts? At the 
> moment this is a key issue that has to be solved to continue my work 
> with kvm.
> 
> Any Ideas? I also tested other IRQ lines and other ttyS* on the system - 
> same behaviour.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Erik
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fixed, apic on host side was disabled, kvm / qemu seems to need it.

Re: Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

[Rodrigo Campos]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:01:08AM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> Erik Rull wrote:
> >Any Ideas? I also tested other IRQ lines and other ttyS* on the
> >system - same behaviour.
> 
> fixed, apic on host side was disabled, kvm / qemu seems to need it.

I think I hit the same issue. What did you do exactly to solve it ? Enable a
kernel option ? May I ask which one ? :)

Sorry, I dont have the hardware right now (so I can't play with apic options). I
will have it in a few weeks, so that's why I am asking :)




Thanks a lot,
Rodrigo

Re: Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

[Erik Rull]

Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:01:08AM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
>> Erik Rull wrote:
>>> Any Ideas? I also tested other IRQ lines and other ttyS* on the
>>> system - same behaviour.
>> fixed, apic on host side was disabled, kvm / qemu seems to need it.
> 
> I think I hit the same issue. What did you do exactly to solve it ? Enable a
> kernel option ? May I ask which one ? :)
> 
> Sorry, I dont have the hardware right now (so I can't play with apic options). I
> will have it in a few weeks, so that's why I am asking :)
> 

I enabled the APIC stuff in Kernel and removed my lapic noapic boot 
parameters. APIC is enabled if you look into /proc/interrupts and the IRQ 
type is something with apic and not pc / xt.

Also ensure that the IRQ line of the serial port matches those of your 
linux drivers! Otherwise the interrupt gets lost and you'll see some 
strange behaviours (Chars missing, delayed responses,...).

Best regards,

Erik

Re: Serial Port Driver does not handle interrupt

[Rodrigo Campos]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:00:56PM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:01:08AM +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> >>Erik Rull wrote:
> >>>Any Ideas? I also tested other IRQ lines and other ttyS* on the
> >>>system - same behaviour.
> >>fixed, apic on host side was disabled, kvm / qemu seems to need it.
> >
> >I think I hit the same issue. What did you do exactly to solve it ? Enable a
> >kernel option ? May I ask which one ? :)
> >
> >Sorry, I dont have the hardware right now (so I can't play with apic options). I
> >will have it in a few weeks, so that's why I am asking :)
> >
> 
> I enabled the APIC stuff in Kernel and removed my lapic noapic boot
> parameters. APIC is enabled if you look into /proc/interrupts and
> the IRQ type is something with apic and not pc / xt.

Ahh, thanks :)

> 
> Also ensure that the IRQ line of the serial port matches those of
> your linux drivers! Otherwise the interrupt gets lost and you'll see
> some strange behaviours (Chars missing, delayed responses,...).

I will check that too.




Thanks a lot,
Rodrigo