[PATCH 6.18 073/212] serial: 8250_dw: Rework dw8250_handle_irq() locking and IIR handling

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:04:43Z

From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

commit 883c5a2bc934c165c4491d1ef7da0ac4e9765077 upstream.

dw8250_handle_irq() takes port's lock multiple times with no good
reason to release it in between and calls serial8250_handle_irq()
that also takes port's lock.

Take port's lock only once in dw8250_handle_irq() and use
serial8250_handle_irq_locked() to avoid releasing port's lock in
between.

As IIR_NO_INT check in serial8250_handle_irq() was outside of port's
lock, it has to be done already in dw8250_handle_irq().

DW UART can, in addition to IIR_NO_INT, report BUSY_DETECT (0x7) which
collided with the IIR_NO_INT (0x1) check in serial8250_handle_irq()
(because & is used instead of ==) meaning that no other work is done by
serial8250_handle_irq() during an BUSY_DETECT interrupt.

This allows reorganizing code in dw8250_handle_irq() to do both
IIR_NO_INT and BUSY_DETECT handling right at the start simplifying
the logic.

Tested-by: Bandal, Shankar <shankar.bandal@intel.com>
Tested-by: Murthy, Shanth <shanth.murthy@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203171049.4353-5-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
* LCR is written whilst busy. If it is, then a busy detect interrupt is
* raised, the LCR needs to be rewritten and the uart status register read.
*/
+#include <linux/bitfield.h>
+#include <linux/bits.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
@@ -40,6 +43,8 @@
#define RZN1_UART_RDMACR 0x110 /* DMA Control Register Receive Mode */

/* DesignWare specific register fields */
+#define DW_UART_IIR_IID GENMASK(3, 0)
+
#define DW_UART_MCR_SIRE BIT(6)

/* Renesas specific register fields */
@@ -312,7 +317,19 @@ static int dw8250_handle_irq(struct uart
bool rx_timeout = (iir & 0x3f) == UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT;
unsigned int quirks = d->pdata->quirks;
unsigned int status;
- unsigned long flags;
+
+ switch (FIELD_GET(DW_UART_IIR_IID, iir)) {
+ case UART_IIR_NO_INT:
+ return 0;
+
+ case UART_IIR_BUSY:
+ /* Clear the USR */
+ serial_port_in(p, d->pdata->usr_reg);
+
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ guard(uart_port_lock_irqsave)(p);

/*
* There are ways to get Designware-based UARTs into a state where
@@ -325,20 +342,15 @@ static int dw8250_handle_irq(struct uart
* so we limit the workaround only to non-DMA mode.
*/
if (!up->dma && rx_timeout) {
- uart_port_lock_irqsave(p, &flags);
status = serial_lsr_in(up);

if (!(status & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI)))
serial_port_in(p, UART_RX);
-
- uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(p, flags);
}

/* Manually stop the Rx DMA transfer when acting as flow controller */
if (quirks & DW_UART_QUIRK_IS_DMA_FC && up->dma && up->dma->rx_running && rx_timeout) {
- uart_port_lock_irqsave(p, &flags);
status = serial_lsr_in(up);
- uart_port_unlock_irqrestore(p, flags);

if (status & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI)) {
dw8250_writel_ext(p, RZN1_UART_RDMACR, 0);
@@ -346,17 +358,9 @@ static int dw8250_handle_irq(struct uart
}
}

- if (serial8250_handle_irq(p, iir))
- return 1;
-
- if ((iir & UART_IIR_BUSY) == UART_IIR_BUSY) {
- /* Clear the USR */
- serial_port_in(p, d->pdata->usr_reg);
+ serial8250_handle_irq_locked(p, iir);

- return 1;
- }
-
- return 0;
+ return 1;
}

static void dw8250_clk_work_cb(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -865,6 +869,7 @@ static struct platform_driver dw8250_pla

module_platform_driver(dw8250_platform_driver);

+MODULE_IMPORT_NS("SERIAL_8250");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Jamie Iles");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Synopsys DesignWare 8250 serial port driver");