Re: [PATCH 4/4] tty: serial: 8250: omap: consume spurious interrupts

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 01/22/2016 05:48 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Hi John,

Hi Peter,

> On 01/22/2016 02:27 AM, John Ogness wrote:
>> It has been seen that spurious interrupts are generated when the
>> DMA engine is in use. By disabling timeout interrupts (~IER_RDI)
>> this phenomenon goes away, but this driver relies on the timeout
>> interrupts, so we just consume the spurious interrupts.
>>
>> Since we are consuming spurious interrupts, the irq cannot be
>> shared with other drivers. (It is never really shared anyway.)
> 
> Does this fix the spurious irqs referred to by Sekhar in
> this email chain  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/3/442 ?

>From what I remember is that if you use DMA (sdma or edma) for RX and
the DMA fetches the data from FIFO (the programmed 48 bytes) you
receive a DMA interrupt for transfer complete _and_ an UART interrupt
which returns UART_IIR_NO_INT (since the FIFO is empty). You usually
don't notice this at 115200. At 3Mbaud those IRQ_NONE are enough to get
the IRQ line shutdown by the IRQ-core.

However instead of assuming that DMA is used in case of UART_IIR_NO_INT
we could limit this only if DMA is actually used (the 8250 DMA ifdef
and maybe set a flag if RX-DMA is successfully programmed).

>> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
>> ---
>>  patch against next-20160122
>>
>>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c |   10 ++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c
>> index ef7a60b..004b85a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c
>> @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ static int omap_8250_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>>  	}
>>  #endif
>>  
>> -	ret = request_irq(port->irq, omap8250_irq, IRQF_SHARED,
>> +	ret = request_irq(port->irq, omap8250_irq, 0,
>>  			  dev_name(port->dev), port);
>>  	if (ret < 0)
>>  		goto err;
>> @@ -1112,8 +1112,14 @@ static int omap_8250_dma_handle_irq(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int iir)
>>  	unsigned char status;
>>  	int dma_err;
>>  
>> +	/*
>> +	 * It has been seen that spurious interrupts are generated when the
>> +	 * DMA engine is in use. By disabling timeout interrupts (~IER_RDI)
>> +	 * this phenomenon goes away, but this driver relies on the timeout
>> +	 * interrupts, so we just consume the spurious interrupts.
>> +	 */
>>  	if (iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT)
>> -		return 0;
>> +		return 1;
>>  
>>  	spin_lock(&port->lock);
>>  
>>

Sebastian