* Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [150531 15:14]:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:09:26AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [150526 07:14]:
> > > On 05/20/2015 04:07 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > > The currently in-use port->startup and port->shutdown are "okay". The
> > > > startup part for instance does the tiny omap extra part and invokes
> > > > serial8250_do_startup() for the remaining pieces. The workflow in
> > > > serial8250_do_startup() is okay except for the part where UART_RX is
> > > > read without a check if there is something to read. I tried to
> > > > workaround it in commit 0aa525d11859 ("tty: serial: 8250_core: read only
> > > > RX if there is something in the FIFO") but then reverted it later in
> > > > commit ca8bb4aefb9 ("serial: 8250: Revert "tty: serial: 8250_core: read
> > > > only RX if there is something in the FIFO"").
> > > >
> > > > This is the second attempt to get it to work on older OMAPs without
> > > > breaking other chips this time
> > > > Peter Hurley suggested to pull in the few needed lines from
> > > > serial8250_do_startup() and drop everything else that is not required
> > > > including making it simpler like using just request_irq() instead the
> > > > chain handler like it is doing now.
> > > > So lets try that.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Sebastian.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Can we please get this into the v4.1-rc series?
> >
> > It fixes the following:
> >
> > Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x1028) at 0xfa06a000
> > ...
> > [<c04217e8>] (mem_serial_in) from [<c0425480>] (serial8250_do_startup+0xe4/0x694)
> > [<c0425480>] (serial8250_do_startup) from [<c0427e48>] (omap_8250_startup+0x70/0x144)
> > [<c0427e48>] (omap_8250_startup) from [<c0425a54>] (serial8250_startup+0x24/0x30)
> > [<c0425a54>] (serial8250_startup) from [<c04208e4>] (uart_startup.part.14+0x8c/0x1a0)
> > [<c04208e4>] (uart_startup.part.14) from [<c0420fec>] (uart_open+0xd8/0x134)
> > [<c0420fec>] (uart_open) from [<c0403e50>] (tty_open+0xdc/0x5e0)
> > [<c0403e50>] (tty_open) from [<c018f008>] (chrdev_open+0xac/0x188)
>
> In looking at it closer, this is fine, I'll queue it up for 4.1-final
> now.
OK thanks, yes I agree this fix should have been done earlier.
But it does fix a fault for omaps.
Regards,
Tony
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