On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:41:57AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > This DMA driver is used by 8250-omap on DRA7-evm. There is one > requirement that is to pause a transfer. This is currently used on the RX > side. It is possible that the UART HW aborted the RX (UART's RX-timeout) > but the DMA controller starts the transfer shortly after. > Before we can manually purge the FIFO we need to pause the transfer, > check how many bytes it already received and terminate the transfer > without it making any progress. > > >From testing on the TX side it seems that it is possible that we invoke > pause once the transfer has completed which is indicated by the missing > CCR_ENABLE bit but before the interrupt has been noticed. In that case the > interrupt will come even after disabling it. > > The AM572x manual says that we have to wait for the CCR_RD_ACTIVE & > CCR_WR_ACTIVE bits to be gone before programming it again here is the > drain loop. Also it looks like without the drain the TX-transfer makes > sometimes progress. > > One note: The pause + resume combo is broken because after resume the > the complete transfer will be programmed again. That means the already > transferred bytes (until the pause event) will be sent again. This is > currently not important for my UART user because it does only pause + > terminate. > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> You don't get a "add support" patch into the stable tree unless it's a trivial device id or quirk table addition, please go re-read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
