[PATCH] serial: mvebu-uart: fix tx lost characters

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Thu Mar 15 13:21:37 PDT 2018


Hi Gabriel,

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:55:25 +0000, Gabriel Matni
<gabriel.matni at exfo.com> wrote:

> From: Gabriel Matni <gabriel.matni at exfo.com>
> 
> Fixes missing characters on kernel console at low baud rates (i.e.9600).
> The driver should poll TX_RDY or TX_FIFO_EMP instead of TX_EMP to ensure
> that the transmitter holding register (THR) is ready to receive a new byte.
> 
> TX_EMP tells us when it is possible to send a break sequence via
> SND_BRK_SEQ. While this also indicates that both the THR and the TSR are
> empty, it does not guarantee that a new byte can be written just yet.
> 
> Fixes: 30530791a7a0 ("serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700
>       serial port")
> Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com> 
> Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at bootlin.com>  
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Matni <gabriel.matni at exfo.com> 
> 
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
> index a100e98259d7..400e1bc558b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
> @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_port *port)
>  	u32 val;
>  
>  	readl_poll_timeout_atomic(port->membase + UART_STAT, val,
> -				  (val & STAT_TX_EMP), 1, 10000);
> +             (val & STAT_TX_RDY(port)), 1, 10000);

I think this line should be indented like the one you replaced.

Thanks,
Miquèl

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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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