Re: [PATCH] serial/amba-pl011: fix minor bugs for pio mode

[Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>]

On 05/05/15 04:00, Leo Yan wrote:
> When use pio mode, there have two issues can be observed:
>
> - In the commit 2240197 "serial/amba-pl011: Leave the TX IRQ alone when
>    the UART is not open", it will skip clearing the TX IRQ across
>    pl011_shutdown() and pl011_startup(); So at the next time after the
>    uart port has been opened, there have chance for the function
>    pl011_tx_chars() will not be executed if the TX IRQ will not be
>    triggered; finally the console cannot output anymore.
>
>    This is caused by the uart FIFO still keep data rather than
>    the threshold. So revert this patch to make sure every time open the
>    uart port, it will force to call function pl011_tx_chars().
>
> - Sometimes will output the duplicate chars. Function pl011_tx_char()
>    will firstly send char and check if FIFO is full, and if the FIFO is
>    full it will return false; Caller function will consider the char
>    has _NOT_ been send out and resend it again, finally will send the
>    duplicate chars. So change to check FIFO is full or not, if full then
>    return false, otherwise send out char and return true.

I was going to comment that this patch should probably be split into two 
patches...

However whilst doing background reading I noticed that for both these 
issues there are existing patches to address them:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-March/334107.html

Do these fix the issues for you?


>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> index 5a4e9d5..9d9ac76 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> @@ -1249,20 +1249,19 @@ __acquires(&uap->port.lock)
>
>   /*
>    * Transmit a character
> - * There must be at least one free entry in the TX FIFO to accept the char.
>    *
> - * Returns true if the FIFO might have space in it afterwards;
> - * returns false if the FIFO definitely became full.
> + * Before send character, need check FIFO is full or not;
> + * If FIFO is full, will not send char and return false,
> + * otherwise send out character and return ture.
>    */
>   static bool pl011_tx_char(struct uart_amba_port *uap, unsigned char c)
>   {
> +	if (readw(uap->port.membase + UART01x_FR) & UART01x_FR_TXFF)
> +		return false;
> +
>   	writew(c, uap->port.membase + UART01x_DR);
>   	uap->port.icount.tx++;
> -
> -	if (likely(uap->tx_irq_seen > 1))
> -		return true;
> -
> -	return !(readw(uap->port.membase + UART01x_FR) & UART01x_FR_TXFF);
> +	return true;
>   }
>
>   static bool pl011_tx_chars(struct uart_amba_port *uap)
> @@ -1639,6 +1638,9 @@ static int pl011_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>
>   	writew(uap->vendor->ifls, uap->port.membase + UART011_IFLS);
>
> +	/* Assume that TX IRQ doesn't work until we see one: */
> +	uap->tx_irq_seen = 0;
> +
>   	spin_lock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
>
>   	/* restore RTS and DTR */
> @@ -1702,7 +1704,7 @@ static void pl011_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
>   	spin_lock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
>   	uap->im = 0;
>   	writew(uap->im, uap->port.membase + UART011_IMSC);
> -	writew(0xffff & ~UART011_TXIS, uap->port.membase + UART011_ICR);
> +	writew(0xffff, uap->port.membase + UART011_ICR);
>   	spin_unlock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
>
>   	pl011_dma_shutdown(uap);
>