Hello,
On 03/13/2015 12:38 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Exynos serial ports operate either in a DMA-based or interrupt-based
> modes. In DMA-based mode, the UART generates a transfer data request
> and a Transmission (Tx) interrupt in interrupt-based mode.
>
> The Tx IRQ is only unmasked in interrupt-based mode and it was done
> in s3c24xx_serial_start_tx(). Commit ba019a3e2ad5 ("serial: samsung:
> remove redundant interrupt enabling") removed the IRQ enable on that
> function since it is enabled when the mode is set in enable_tx_pio().
>
> The problem is that enable_tx_pio() is only called if the port mode
> has not been set before but the mode was not cleared on .shutdown().
>
> So if the UART was shutdown and then started up again, the mode set
> will remain and the Tx IRQ won't be unmasked.
>
> This caused a hang on at least Exynos5250, Exynos5420 and Exynos5800
> when the system is rebooted or powered off.
>
> Fixes: ba019a3e2ad5 ("serial: samsung: remove redundant interrupt enabling")
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I noticed this issue on an Exynos5250 Snow, Exynos5420 Peach Pit and Exynos
> 5800 Peach Pi Chromebooks. This patch fixes the issue on all of them.
>
> The offending commit landed in v4.0-rc1 so this fix is -rc material.
>
> drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c
> index af821a908720..cf08876922f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c
> @@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ static void s3c24xx_serial_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
> free_irq(ourport->tx_irq, ourport);
> tx_enabled(port) = 0;
> ourport->tx_claimed = 0;
> + ourport->tx_mode = 0;
> }
>
> if (ourport->rx_claimed) {
>
Any comments about this patch? 3.14-rc5 will most likely be released this weekend
so we are running out of time to fix this issue before 3.14 is released.
Best regards,
Javier
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