On Thu, 7 May 2020, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:57:09AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > The patch 92d7223a74235054f2aa7227d207d9c57f84dca0 ("alpha: io: reorder
> > barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering #2") broke boot on
> > the Alpha Avanti platform.
> >
> > The patch changes timing between accesses to the ISA bus, in particular,
> > it reduces the time between "write" access and a subsequent "read" access.
> >
> > This causes lock-up when accessing the real time clock and serial ports.
> >
> > This patch fixes the serial ports by adding a small delay before the "inb"
> > instruction.
> >
> > We introduce a global variable
> > alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay - it is defined on Alpha and
> > it is set to 1 if we have the specific PCI-ISA bridge where this bug
> > occurs. We also introduce a new per-port flag UPQ_DELAY_BEFORE_READ, the
> > flag is set if alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay is set and if
> > the serial port is an ISA port.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 92d7223a7423 ("alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering #2")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.17+
> >
> > ---
> > arch/alpha/include/asm/serial.h | 5 +++++
> > arch/alpha/kernel/pci.c | 5 +++++
> > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 17 +++++++++++------
> > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 3 +++
> > include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 +
> > 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-stable/arch/alpha/kernel/pci.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-stable.orig/arch/alpha/kernel/pci.c 2020-05-07 09:57:02.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-stable/arch/alpha/kernel/pci.c 2020-05-07 14:30:07.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> > #include <asm/machvec.h>
> > +#include <asm/serial.h>
> >
> > #include "proto.h"
> > #include "pci_impl.h"
> > @@ -61,9 +62,13 @@ struct pci_controller *pci_isa_hose;
> > * Quirks.
> > */
> >
> > +int alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay = 0;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay);
> > +
> > static void quirk_isa_bridge(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > {
> > dev->class = PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_ISA << 8;
> > + alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay = 1;
> > }
> > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82378, quirk_isa_bridge);
> >
> > Index: linux-stable/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c 2020-05-07 09:57:02.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-stable/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c 2020-05-07 09:57:02.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -442,6 +442,9 @@ static unsigned int mem32be_serial_in(st
> >
> > static unsigned int io_serial_in(struct uart_port *p, int offset)
> > {
> > + if (unlikely(p->quirks & UPQ_DELAY_BEFORE_READ))
> > + ndelay(300);
> > +
> > offset = offset << p->regshift;
> > return inb(p->iobase + offset);
> > }
> > Index: linux-stable/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c 2020-05-07 09:57:02.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-stable/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c 2020-05-07 14:34:16.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -487,9 +487,20 @@ static void univ8250_rsa_support(struct
> > #define univ8250_rsa_support(x) do { } while (0)
> > #endif /* CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA */
> >
> > +/*
> > + * This "device" covers _all_ ISA 8250-compatible serial devices listed
> > + * in the table in include/asm/serial.h
> > + */
> > +static struct platform_device *serial8250_isa_devs;
> > +
> > static inline void serial8250_apply_quirks(struct uart_8250_port *up)
> > {
> > up->port.quirks |= skip_txen_test ? UPQ_NO_TXEN_TEST : 0;
> > +#ifdef alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay
>
> That is a symbol, not a define, how does that work?
>
> greg k-h
That's both the symbol and a define - see this part of the patch:
Mikulas
Index: linux-stable/arch/alpha/include/asm/serial.h
===================================================================
--- linux-stable.orig/arch/alpha/include/asm/serial.h 2020-02-07 11:52:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-stable/arch/alpha/include/asm/serial.h 2020-05-07 14:48:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -28,3 +28,8 @@
{ 0, BASE_BAUD, 0x2F8, 3, STD_COM_FLAGS }, /* ttyS1 */ \
{ 0, BASE_BAUD, 0x3E8, 4, STD_COM_FLAGS }, /* ttyS2 */ \
{ 0, BASE_BAUD, 0x2E8, 3, STD_COM4_FLAGS }, /* ttyS3 */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PCI
+extern int alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay;
+#define alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay alpha_has_broken_serial_ports_and_needs_delay
+#endif
