On 07/17/2014 06:02 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c >> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c index 2e4a93b..480a1c0 >> 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c +++ >> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c @@ -1283,6 +1283,9 @@ >> static inline void __stop_tx(struct uart_8250_port *p) if (p->ier >> & UART_IER_THRI) { p->ier &= ~UART_IER_THRI; serial_out(p, >> UART_IER, p->ier); + + pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(p->port.dev); + >> pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(p->port.dev); } } >> >> @@ -1310,12 +1313,12 @@ static void serial8250_start_tx(struct >> uart_port *port) struct uart_8250_port *up = container_of(port, >> struct uart_8250_port, port); >> >> - pm_runtime_get_sync(port->dev); if (up->dma && >> !serial8250_tx_dma(up)) { goto out; } else if (!(up->ier & >> UART_IER_THRI)) { up->ier |= UART_IER_THRI; + >> pm_runtime_get_sync(port->dev); serial_port_out(port, UART_IER, >> up->ier); >> >> if (up->bugs & UART_BUG_TXEN) { unsigned char lsr; > > this looks better. So we get on start_tx() and put on stop_tx(). > >> @@ -1500,9 +1503,10 @@ void serial8250_tx_chars(struct >> uart_8250_port *up) uart_write_wakeup(port); >> >> DEBUG_INTR("THRE..."); - +#if 0 if (uart_circ_empty(xmit)) >> __stop_tx(up); +#endif } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serial8250_tx_chars); > > is it so that start_tx() gets called one and stop_tx() might be > called N times ? That looks unbalanced to me. If the calls are > balanced, then you shouldn't need to care because pm_runtime will > handle reference counting for you, right? No, this is okay. If you look, it checks for "up->ier & UART_IER_THRI". On the second invocation it will see that this bit is already set and therefore won't call get_sync() for the second time. That bit is removed in the _stop_tx() path. >> and now I need to come up with something that is not if (port != >> omap) for that #if 0 block. The code disables the TX FIFO empty >> interrupt once the transfer is complete. I want to call >> __stop_tx() once the tx fifo is empty. Felipe, Would a check for >> dev->power.use_autosuspend be the right thing to do? > > probably not, as that's internal to the pm_runtime code. But I > wonder if start/stop tx calls are balanced, if they are then we're > good. Unless I'm missing something else. Do you have other ideas? It doesn't look like this is exported at all. If we call _stop_tx() right away, then we have 64 bytes in the TX fifo in the worst case. They should be gone "soon" but the HW-flow control may delay it (in theory for a long time)). Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html