Re: UART on MPC83xx in irq loop

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 03:27:19PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a system based on MPC8313ERDB here that in some situations gets
> > stuck in an irq loop. I have a reproducer here that works reliably. A
> > workaround is:
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> > index 45b8a59d937c..5ab32b6ba701 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> > @@ -2009,6 +2009,14 @@ int serial8250_handle_irq(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int iir)
> >  
> >  	status = serial_port_in(port, UART_LSR);
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Sometimes a "Character time-out" (IID3:0 == 0xc) happens on MPC8313,
> > +	 * but LSR doesn't report "Data ready". To clear the former the receive
> > +	 * buffer must be read. It's unclear if the char read is valid or not.
> > +	 */
> > +	if ((iir & UART_IIR_ID) == UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT)
> > +		status |= UART_LSR_DR;
> > +
> >  	/*
> >  	 * If port is stopped and there are no error conditions in the
> >  	 * FIFO, then don't drain the FIFO, as this may lead to TTY buffer
> > 
> > I havn't debugged that further than written in the comment but I wonder
> > if this is a known issue (didn't find it in the errata though) and/or if
> > someone with hardware knowledge could confirm this to be a hardware
> > fault.
> > 
> > Without feedback from NXP I'd look in more detail into that to for
> > example find out the timing and so maybe more hints about the hardware
> > and a better SW workaround/fix.
> > 
> > Any input is very welcome.
> 
> I find it bit odd you seem to assume w/o any justification that the data 
> would be valid (that workaround will read one byte and consider it 
> valid, no?). According to the comments & workarounds to the same problem
> (just look for IIR_RX_TIMEOUT and you'll find a few), they all do dummy 
> reads rather than assume the data is valid.

AFAICT the irq doesn't stop being pending without the read. But yes,
there are some details to research/explain, for example what is read
from the data register and if this byte is valid or not.

Also without status having the DR (or BI) bit set, UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT
doesn't kick in?!

Best regards
Uwe

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