Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250 check iir rdi in interrupt

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> It is racing. For "too much work for irq", here is sequence events
> analyzed by a Motorola engineer:

Thanks - this is enormously helpful in understanding the report.

>         5) The LSR indicates that the transmitter needs data,
> but also indicates the presence of data in the FIFO (0x61 in the LSR)
>         6) The processing function receives the characters, and
> outputs data to the FIFO
>         7) At the exact time (very very small window) that the
> character is read from the FIFO, the FIFO timeout occurs locking in an
> interrupt cause
>         8) The next loop through the interrupt code begins
>         9) The IIR now indicates the data timeout interrupt
> (0xCC in the IIR)
>         10) The processing function is called and it reads the
> LSR
>         11) The LSR is 0 indicating nothing to do

>         12) The interrupt loop continues (the IIR won't clear
> until a character is pulled) until it reaches its max count and
> displays the error.

So we only need to check this in serial8250_handle_irq when IIR indicates
a data timeout interrupt ? 

Can we do

	if ((iir & 0x0F) == 0x0C) {
		/* Expensive RDI check */
	}



Alan