Hi George, I am able to reproduce the SCIF2 console freeze described in the referenced patchwork link using M3-ES1.1-Salvator-XS and recent v5.1-9573-gb970afcfcabd kernel. I confirm the behavior is healed with this patch. Thanks! Hope to see it accepted soon, since it fixes a super annoying console breakage every fourth boot or so on lots of R-Car3 targets. Tested-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:43:30AM -0400, George G. Davis wrote: > As noted in commit 84b40e3b57ee ("serial: 8250: omap: Disable DMA for > console UART"), UART console lines use low-level PIO only access functions > which will conflict with use of the line when DMA is enabled, e.g. when > the console line is also used for systemd messages. So disable DMA > support for UART console lines. > > Fixes: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10929511/ > Reported-by: Michael Rodin <mrodin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <george_davis@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c > index 3cd139752d3f..885b56b1d4e4 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c > @@ -1557,6 +1557,9 @@ static void sci_request_dma(struct uart_port *port) > > dev_dbg(port->dev, "%s: port %d\n", __func__, port->line); > > + if (uart_console(port)) > + return; /* Cannot use DMA on console */ > + > if (!port->dev->of_node) > return; > > -- > 2.7.4 > -- Best Regards, Eugeniu.