On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:08:48PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m trying to understand how user mode buffer is written to low level
> serial hardware registers.
>
> For this I read the kernel code and I came to know that from user mode
> write() API lands into kernel’s tty_write() ("drivers/tty/tty_io.c")
> and then it calls a uart_write() ("drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c").
>
> In uart_write(), the buffer is copied to circ_buf and then it calls
> low level serial hardware driver’s start_tx() (struct uart_ops
> .start_tx). But here I could not find how the buffer kept in circ_buf
> is copied to serial port’s TX_FIFO registers?
>
> Can someone take a moment to explain me on this?
It all depends on which specific UART driver you are looking at, they
all do it a bit different depending on the hardware.
Which one are you looking at? Look at what the start_tx callback does
for that specific driver, that should give you a hint as to how data
starts flowing. Usually an interrupt is enabled that is used to flush
the buffer out to the hardware.
thanks,
greg k-h
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