[PATCH] serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix possible interrupt storm

[Jan Kiszka]

On 28.05.21 08:11, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 5/28/21 11:09 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> Hi Greg, Vignesh & Jan,
>>
>> * Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> [210513 14:17]:
>>> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 08:49:55PM +0530, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
>>>> It is possible that RX TIMEOUT is signalled after RX FIFO has been
>>>> drained, in which case a dummy read of RX FIFO is required to clear RX
>>>> TIMEOUT condition. Otherwise, RX TIMEOUT condition is not cleared
>>>> leading to an interrupt storm
>>>>
>>>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>>>
>>> How far back does this need to go?  What commit id does this fix?  What
>>> caused this to just show up now vs. previously?
> 
> Sorry, I missed this reply. Issue was reported on AM65x SoC with custom
> test case from Jan Kiszka that stressed UART with rapid baudrate changes
> from 9600 to 4M along with data transfer.
> 
> Based on the condition that led to interrupt storm, I inferred it to
> affect all SoCs with 8250 OMAP UARTs. But that seems thats not the best
> idea as seen from OMAP3 regression.
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Could you please drop the patch? Very sorry for the inconvenience..
> 
>>
>> I just noticed this causes the following regression in Linux next when
>> pressing a key on uart console after boot at least on omap3. This seems
>> to happen on serial_port_in(port, UART_RX) in the quirk handling.
>>
>> Vignesh, it seems this quirk needs some soc specific flag added to
>> it maybe? Or maybe UART_OMAP_RX_LVL register is not available for
>> all the SoCs?
>>
> 
> Yes indeed :(
> 
>> I think it's best to drop this patch until the issues are resolved,
>> also there are some open comments above that might be answered by
>> limiting this quirk to a specific range of SoCs :)
>>
> 
> Oops, I did test patch AM33xx assuming its equivalent to OMAP3, but UART
> IP is quite different. I will respin the patch making sure, workaround
> applies only to AM65x and K3 SoCs.
> 
> Regards
> Vignesh
> 

What's the status here for AM65x? The issue remains present on that
platform, and I was hoping to see a quick follow up that limit the fix
to that target.

Jan

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