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SubjectFW: Linux 3.15: SPARC serial console regression
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On 06/09/2014 04:59 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:> Hi,
>
> While testing the final 3.15, I noticed the serial console (sunsab)
> does not work anymore on Sun Ultra.
>
> It will tx fine the console output during the boot. But then I try
> to type something e.g. at the login: prompt, it behaves oddly:
> it re-transmits some old output, and then stalls for a few secs, usually
> for each character. Typed characters are however received correctly.
> But the console is impossible to use...
>
> I bisected this to:
>
> 717f3bbab3c7628736ef738fdbf3d9a28578c26c is the first bad commit
> commit 717f3bbab3c7628736ef738fdbf3d9a28578c26c
> Author: Seth Bollinger <sethb@digi.com>
> Date: Tue Mar 25 12:55:37 2014 -0500
>
> serial_core: Fix conditional start_tx on ring buffer not empty

[Let's try that again. This time without the mess]

Thanks for the report Aaro.

Looks like Seth's fix exposes some broken assumptions in the Sun
serial drivers.

Can you test the patch below?

Regards,
Peter Hurley

PS - Do you have a way to test also your setup using hardware flow
control, ie. CRTSCTS? I ask because I would expect that to be broken
even before Seth's patch.

--- %< ---
From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 19:21:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] serial: sunsab: Test for no tx data on tx restart

Commit 717f3bbab3c7628736ef738fdbf3d9a28578c26c,
'serial_core: Fix conditional start_tx on ring buffer not empty'
exposes an incorrect assumption in sunsab's start_tx method; the
tx ring buffer can, in fact, be empty when restarting tx when
performing flow control.

Test for empty tx ring buffer when in sunsab's start_tx method.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/sunsab.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sunsab.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sunsab.c
index 5faa8e9..b99a4ea 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sunsab.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sunsab.c
@@ -427,6 +427,9 @@ static void sunsab_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
struct circ_buf *xmit = &up->port.state->xmit;
int i;

+ if (uart_circ_empty(xmit))
+ return;
+
up->interrupt_mask1 &= ~(SAB82532_IMR1_ALLS|SAB82532_IMR1_XPR);
writeb(up->interrupt_mask1, &up->regs->w.imr1);

--
2.0.0


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