On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 12:20:58PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 08:46:12PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 08:43:51AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 11:36:10PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > > > This properly unmaps DMA SG on device shutdown.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reported-by: Nandor Han <nandor.han@xxxxxx>
> > > > > Suggested-by: Nandor Han <nandor.han@xxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> > > > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> > > > > index 3ca767b1162a..6c53e74244ec 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> > > > > @@ -1425,10 +1425,18 @@ static void imx_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
> > > > > u32 ucr1, ucr2;
> > > > >
> > > > > if (sport->dma_is_enabled) {
> > > > > - sport->dma_is_rxing = 0;
> > > > > - sport->dma_is_txing = 0;
> > > > > dmaengine_terminate_sync(sport->dma_chan_tx);
> > > > > + if (sport->dma_is_txing) {
> > > > > + dma_unmap_sg(sport->port.dev, &sport->tx_sgl[0],
> > > > > + sport->dma_tx_nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> > > > > + sport->dma_is_txing = 0;
> > > > > + }
> > > >
> > > > did you find this because the kernel crashed or consumed more and more
> > > > memory, or is this "only" a finding of reading the source code? If the
> > > > former it would be great to point out in the commit log, if the latter,
> > > > I wonder if this is a real problem that warrants a stable backport.
> > >
> > > A bit of both. One of Collabora's customers had a (scarce) kernel crash
> > > in imx-serial and modified multiple things in the driver. The crash is
> > > gone, but it's not clear which change fixed it. I could not
> > > reproduce the crash so far and I'm currently rebasing and splitting
> > > their changes into upstreamable portions with proper patch
> > > descriptions. From reading the source this looked like a real issue.
> >
> > In which context (kernel version, operating mode (e.g. rs485)) did these
> > happen? What does "crash" mean? The kernel did just hang or produced an
> > oops? If the latter, can you show it/them?
>
> I pasted the oops, that triggered writing the patches (Linux 4.8, no
> rs485, 4MHz baudrate). I think, that the actual issue has already been
> fixed upstream between 4.13 and current master.
>
> -- Sebastian
>
> ...
> [ 302.516696] Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x1008) at 0xf0938000
This is usually a missing clk. Alternatively RX is disabled and the
RXDATA register is read. Scrolling through
git log v4.13..linus/master -- drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
I didn't find a candidate for fixing that.
> [ 302.524394] pgd = 80004000
> [ 302.527111] [f0938000] *pgd=de81a811, *pte=53fc0653, *ppte=53fc0453
> [ 302.533451] Internal error: : 1008 [#1] SMP ARM
> [ 302.537994] Modules linked in: smsc95xx usbnet atmel_mxt_ts
> [ 302.543651] CPU: 0 PID: 357 Comm: _ACFRead Not tainted 4.8.0 #1
> [ 302.549578] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX53 (Device Tree Support)
> [ 302.555679] task: edbf1f00 task.stack: ed5ce000
> [ 302.560228] PC is at imx_rxint+0x5c/0x228
> [ 302.564261] LR is at lock_acquired+0x494/0x57c
If you still have this kernel, disabling imx_rxint would be helpful.
Best regards
Uwe
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