Hi, Geert-san,
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 3:19 AM
>
> Make sure the transmitter and receiver are stopped when shutting down
> the port, and related interrupts are disabled.
>
> Without this:
> - New input data may be received into the RX FIFO, possibly
> triggering a new RX DMA completion,
> - Transfers will still be enabled on a subsequent startup of the UART,
> before the UART's FIFOs have been reset, causing reading of stale
> data.
>
> Inspired by a patch in the BSP by Koji Matsuoka
> <koji.matsuoka.xm@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Extracted from "[PATCH/RFC v3 0/4] serial: sh-sci: Add DT DMA support".
> The issues with the serial console seen before on r8a7740/armadillo and
> sh73a0/kzm9g seem to be gone.
>
> Changes after resurrection:
> - Write zero to also disable related interrupts, as suggested by
> Laurent Pinchart,
If we write zero to the register, we cannot use the port as a console after it is called.
In fact, I have an issue while rc scripts are running on my root filesystem.
When rc scripts is running, "shutdown" is called a lot.
After the "shutdown", if the kernel will put strings using a console, it cannot put strings
because the register is zero (TE and CKE are 0). So, we have to consider it.
FYI, I made a patch to fix this issue.
(Perhaps, both the CKE and TE should be set in the serial_console_write(), but I don't know how to set the CKE for now :) )
Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda
---
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
index afa25ec..b5b1b38 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c
@@ -1989,6 +1989,7 @@ static void sci_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sci_port *s = to_sci_port(port);
unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned int ctrl;
dev_dbg(port->dev, "%s(%d)\n", __func__, port->line);
@@ -1998,8 +1999,12 @@ static void sci_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
sci_stop_rx(port);
sci_stop_tx(port);
- /* Stop RX and TX, disable related interrupts */
- serial_port_out(port, SCSCR, 0);
+ /* Stop RX and TX, disable related interrupts, keep clock source */
+ ctrl = serial_port_in(port, SCSCR);
+ ctrl = (s->cfg->scscr & ~(SCSCR_CKE1 | SCSCR_CKE0)) |
+ (ctrl & (SCSCR_CKE1 | SCSCR_CKE0));
+ serial_port_out(port, SCSCR, ctrl);
+
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_SH_SCI_DMA
@@ -2801,6 +2806,8 @@ static void serial_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
ctrl = serial_port_in(port, SCSCR);
ctrl_temp = (sci_port->cfg->scscr & ~(SCSCR_CKE1 | SCSCR_CKE0)) |
(ctrl & (SCSCR_CKE1 | SCSCR_CKE0));
+ ctrl_temp |= SCSCR_TE; /* FIXME: while "break ctl" is on */
+
serial_port_out(port, SCSCR, ctrl_temp);
uart_console_write(port, s, count, serial_console_putchar);
