Hi Juergen,
Am 15.07.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Juergen Borleis:
> Whenever the UART device driver gets closed from userland, the driver
> disables the UART unit and then stops its clock to save power.
>
> The bit which disabled the UART unit is described as:
>
> "UART Enable. If this bit is set to 1, the UART is enabled. Data
> transmission and reception occurs for the UART signals. When the
> UART is disabled in the middle of transmission or reception, it
> completes the current character before stopping."
>
> The important part is the "it completes the current character". Whenever
> a reception is ongoing when the UART gets disabled (including the clock
> off) the statemachine freezes and "remembers" this state on the next
> open() and re-enabling of the unit's clock.
>
> In this case we end up receiving an additional bogus character
> immediately.
>
> The solution in this change is to move the AUART unit into its reset
> state on close() and only release it from its reset state on the next
> open().
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Borleis <jbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
changelog for v2?
> drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> index 13cf773..13b3e3c 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c
> @@ -858,6 +858,30 @@ static void mxs_auart_reset(struct uart_port *u)
> writel(AUART_CTRL0_CLKGATE, u->membase + AUART_CTRL0_CLR);
> }
>
> +static void mxs_auart_keep_reset(struct uart_port *u)
> +{
> + int i;
> + u32 reg;
> +
> + reg = readl(u->membase + AUART_CTRL0);
> + /* if already in reset state, keep it untouched */
> + if (reg & AUART_CTRL0_SFTRST)
> + return;
> +
> + writel(AUART_CTRL0_CLKGATE, u->membase + AUART_CTRL0_CLR);
> + writel(AUART_CTRL0_SFTRST, u->membase + AUART_CTRL0_SET);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
> + reg = readl(u->membase + AUART_CTRL0);
> + /* reset is finished when the clock is gated */
> + if (reg & AUART_CTRL0_CLKGATE)
> + return;
> + udelay(3);
> + }
> +
> + dev_err(u->dev, "Failed to reset the unit.");
Sorry, i missed that in my first review. It looks like that the newline
at the end of the error message is missing.
Regards
Stefan
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