Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: atmel_serial: BUG: stop DMA from transmitting in stop_tx

[Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>]

Le 13/12/2016 à 17:27, Richard Genoud a écrit :
> If we don't disable the transmitter in atmel_stop_tx, the DMA buffer
> continues to send data until it is emptied.
> This cause problems with the flow control (CTS is asserted and data are
> still sent).
> 
> So, disabling the transmitter in atmel_stop_tx is a sane thing to do.
> 
> Tested on at91sam9g35-cm(DMA)
> Tested for regressions on sama5d2-xplained(Fifo) and at91sam9g20ek(PDC)
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> (beware, this won't apply before 4.3)
> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>

> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> NB: this is not for the 4.10 merge window, I'm just sending it now to
> have some comments if someone is againts it.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> index 168b10cad47b..f9d42de5ab2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> @@ -481,6 +481,14 @@ static void atmel_stop_tx(struct uart_port *port)
>  		/* disable PDC transmit */
>  		atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_PDC_PTCR, ATMEL_PDC_TXTDIS);
>  	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Disable the transmitter.
> +	 * This is mandatory when DMA is used, otherwise the DMA buffer
> +	 * is fully transmitted.
> +	 */
> +	atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_CR, ATMEL_US_TXDIS);
> +
>  	/* Disable interrupts */
>  	atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_IDR, atmel_port->tx_done_mask);
>  
> @@ -513,6 +521,9 @@ static void atmel_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
>  
>  	/* Enable interrupts */
>  	atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_IER, atmel_port->tx_done_mask);
> +
> +	/* re-enable the transmitter */
> +	atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_CR, ATMEL_US_TXEN);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> 


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Nicolas Ferre