Hi Greg, Jiri, Peter,
I'm wondering what is the expected behavior of calling
uart_ops.set_termios() w.r.t. characters that are already queued in the
UART's TX FIFO.
- Should it wait (block) until all queued characters have been
transmitted, before changing the UART's settings?
- Should it apply the new settings immediately, affecting the already
queued characters?
- Should it apply the new settings, dropping the already queued
characters?
- Is calling uart_ops.set_termios() while the TX FIFO isn't empty
allowed (this can be triggered easily from userspace)?
uart_ops.set_termios() returns void, so there's no way to return an error.
Currently the sh-sci driver blocks until the TX FIFO has been emptied,
which may never happen if hardware flow control is enabled, and the remote
side never asserts CTS, leading to:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s!
See also "[PATCH 2/2] serial: sh-sci: Fix hang in sci_reset()",
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/2/225).
Thanks for your answer!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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