Dear Penguins,
Let me start of by saying my particular hardware must be buggy in some
way. When I issue a sysrq (Ctrl A+ F from minicom) I get a lot of sysrq
triggers.
I have worked around the problem and I think this workaround is a viable
patch even for platforms which do not exhibit this peculiar behavior.
upon getting numerous interrupts which request sysrq the function
uart_handle_break in include/linux/serial_core.h is hit multiple times.
The current code which looks like this:
static inline int uart_handle_break(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct uart_info *info = port->info;
#ifdef SUPPORT_SYSRQ
if (port->cons && port->cons->index == port->line) {
if (!port->sysrq) {
port->sysrq = jiffies + HZ*5;
return 1;
}
port->sysrq = 0;
}
#endif
if (port->flags & UPF_SAK)
do_SAK(info->tty);
return 0;
}
Will basicly toggle port->sysrq between a timeout value and zero. If you
are lucky this penguin rullet will stop on timeout and the next
character hit will trigger the sysrq in the function
"uart_handle_sysrq_char". But if you are not so lucky the last sysrq
interupt will toggle port->sysrq to zero and the next char hit will be
ignored (not trigger sysrq).
The suggested patch will do the next few things:
1. "port->sysrq" is now the time when the last sysrq was triggered and
not the timeout for the the next char
2. Stamped "port->sysrq" every time there is a sysrq rather then toggled
it up and down.
3. Always continue to consider UPF_SAK.
4. "port->sysrq" is toggled back to zero only in uart_handle_break() and
only if the a char has been accepted after the sysrq timeout (5 sec)
5. uart_handle_break() will ignore extra chars received in super human
speed after the last sysrq (0.01 sec)
Liberty
Signed-off-by: Eran Liberty <liberty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Index: include/linux/serial_core.h
===================================================================
--- include/linux/serial_core.h (revision 119)
+++ include/linux/serial_core.h (revision 120)
@@ -447,8 +447,8 @@
uart_handle_sysrq_char(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int ch)
{
#ifdef SUPPORT_SYSRQ
- if (port->sysrq) {
- if (ch && time_before(jiffies, port->sysrq)) {
+ if (port->sysrq && time_after(jiffies, port->sysrq + (unsigned long)(HZ*0.01))) {
+ if (ch && time_before(jiffies, port->sysrq + HZ*5)) {
handle_sysrq(ch, port->info ? port->info->tty : NULL);
port->sysrq = 0;
return 1;
@@ -467,19 +467,17 @@
*/
static inline int uart_handle_break(struct uart_port *port)
{
+ int ret = 0;
struct uart_info *info = port->info;
#ifdef SUPPORT_SYSRQ
if (port->cons && port->cons->index == port->line) {
- if (!port->sysrq) {
- port->sysrq = jiffies + HZ*5;
- return 1;
- }
- port->sysrq = 0;
+ port->sysrq = jiffies;
+ ret = 1;
}
#endif
if (port->flags & UPF_SAK)
do_SAK(info->tty);
- return 0;
+ return ret;
}
/**
