Re: [PATCH] serial: imx: Fix DMA handling for IDLE condition aborts

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On 19.05.2015 14:16, Fabio Estevam wrote:
Hi Philipp,

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The driver configures the IDLE condition to interrupt the SDMA engine.
Since the SDMA UART ROM script doesn't clear the IDLE bit itself, this
caused repeated 1-byte DMA transfers, regardless of available data in the
RX FIFO. Also, when returning due to the IDLE condition, the UART ROM
script already increased its counter, causing residue to be off by one.

This patch clears the IDLE condition to avoid repeated 1-byte DMA transfers
and decreases count by when the DMA transfer was aborted due to the IDLE
condition, fixing serial transfers using DMA on i.MX6Q.

Reported-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix. Tested on a imx6sl-warp, where I could not use DMA
to access a Bluetooth device using the ROM SDMA firmware.

Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Could you please also Cc stable?


Just fyi: We got this patch via -stable, and found that it results in issues for us. So we had to revert it in our local tree.

We are using the DMA with baud rates > 2Mbit/s. Having a quick look at the registers in the ARM Reference Manual, USR2_IDLE seems to be a flag that is set when the RX line has been idle for at least a defined amount of time.

For us this commit is dangerous because it fails to check whether the IDLE CONDITION feature is being used. We don't use the RX IDLE CONDITION feature, therefore it is likely to cause the last received character to be discarded causing corruption of data.

Best regards

Dirk
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