On Mon 20 May 08:11 PDT 2019, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Mon 20 May 07:58 PDT 2019, Jorge Ramirez wrote:
>
> > On 5/20/19 16:56, Jorge Ramirez wrote:
> > > On 5/20/19 16:51, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > >> Quoting Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz (2019-05-20 03:34:35)
> > >>> When the tty layer requests the uart to throttle, the current code
> > >>> executing in msm_serial will trigger "Bad mode in Error Handler" and
> > >>> generate an invalid stack frame in pstore before rebooting (that is if
> > >>> pstore is indeed configured: otherwise the user shall just notice a
> > >>> reboot with no further information dumped to the console).
> > >>>
> > >>> This patch replaces the PIO byte accessor with the word accessor
> > >>> already used in PIO mode.
> > >>
> > >> Because the hardware only accepts word based accessors and fails
> > >> otherwise? I can believe that.
> > >>
> > >> I wonder if the earlier UART hardware this driver used to support (i.e.
> > >> pre-DM) would accept byte access to the registers. It's possible, but we
> > >> don't really care because those boards aren't supported.
> > >
> > > ok.
> > >
> > > also the PIO path uses iowrite32_rep to write a number of bytes (from 1
> > > to 4) so I think it is also appropriate to use it for XON/XOFF.
> > >
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> ---
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >>> drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 5 ++++-
> > >>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
> > >>> index 109096033bb1..23833ad952ba 100644
> > >>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
> > >>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
> > >>> @@ -869,10 +870,12 @@ static void msm_handle_tx(struct uart_port *port)
> > >>> else
> > >>> tf = port->membase + UART_TF;
> > >>>
> > >>> + buf[0] = port->x_char;
> > >>> +
> > >>> if (msm_port->is_uartdm)
> > >>> msm_reset_dm_count(port, 1);
> > >>>
> > >>> - iowrite8_rep(tf, &port->x_char, 1);
> > >>> + iowrite32_rep(tf, buf, 1);
> > >>
> > >> I suppose it's OK to write some extra zeroes here?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > yeah, semantically confusing msm_reset_dm_count is what really matters:
> > > it tells the hardware to only take n bytes (in this case only one) so
> > > the others will be ignored
> >
> > um after I said this, maybe iowrite32_rep should only be applied to
> > uartdm ... what do you think?
> >
>
> If I read the history correctly this write was a writel() up until
> 68252424a7c7 ("tty: serial: msm: Support big-endian CPUs").
>
> So I think you should just change this back to a iowrite32_rep() and add
> a Fixes tag.
>
I mean...
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Bjorn
