Hi,
a while back I sent a few mails regarding spurious interrupts in the
UARTA (hsuart) block of the Tegra2 SoC, when using the 8250 driver for
it instead of the hsuart driver. After going down a pretty deep
debugging/testing hole, I think I found a patch that fixes the issue. So
far testing in a reboot-cycle suggests that the error frequency dropped
from >3% of all reboots to at least <0.05% of all reboots. Tests
continue to run over the weekend.
The patch below already is a second iteration; the first did not reset
the MCR or contain the lines below '// clear interrupts'. This resulted
in no more spurious interrupts, but in a few % of spurious interrupts
that were recovered the UART block did not receive any characters any
more. So further resetting was required to fully reacquire operational
state of the UART block.
I'd love any comments/suggestions on this!
Cheers,
David
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
index e8819aa20415..1d76eebefd4e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
@@ -140,6 +140,38 @@ static irqreturn_t serial8250_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
"serial8250: too much work for irq%d\n", irq);
break;
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_2x_SOC
+ if (!handled && (port->type == PORT_TEGRA)) {
+ /*
+ * Fix Tegra 2 CPU silicon bug where sometimes
+ * "TX holding register empty" interrupts result in a
+ * bad (metastable?) state in Tegras HSUART IP core.
+ * Only way to recover seems to be to reset all
+ * interrupts as well as the TX queue and the MCR.
+ * But we don't want to loose any outgoing characters,
+ * so only do it if the RX and TX queues are empty.
+ */
+ unsigned char lsr = port->serial_in(port, UART_LSR);
+ const unsigned char fifo_empty_mask =
+ (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE);
+ if (((lsr & (UART_LSR_DR | fifo_empty_mask)) ==
+ fifo_empty_mask)) {
+ port->serial_out(port, UART_IER, 0);
+ port->serial_out(port, UART_MCR, 0);
+ serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos(up);
+ port->serial_out(port, UART_MCR, up->mcr);
+ port->serial_out(port, UART_IER, up->ier);
+ // clear interrupts
+ serial_port_in(port, UART_LSR);
+ serial_port_in(port, UART_RX);
+ serial_port_in(port, UART_IIR);
+ serial_port_in(port, UART_MSR);
+ up->lsr_saved_flags = 0;
+ up->msr_saved_flags = 0;
+ }
+ }
+#endif
} while (l != end);
spin_unlock(&i->lock);
