The patch titled atmel_serial: fix uart/console concurrent access has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is atmel_serial-fix-uart-console-concurrent-access.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: atmel_serial: fix uart/console concurrent access From: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@xxxxxxx> Strange chars appear on the serial port when a printk and a printf happens at the same time. This is caused by the pdc sending chars while atmel_console_write (called from printk) is executing Concurent access of uart and console to the same port leads to corrupted data to be transmitted, so disable tx dma (PDC) while writing to the console. Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c~atmel_serial-fix-uart-console-concurrent-access drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c --- a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c~atmel_serial-fix-uart-console-concurrent-access +++ a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ #define UART_PUT_TPR(port,v) __raw_writel(v, (port)->membase + ATMEL_PDC_TPR) #define UART_PUT_TCR(port,v) __raw_writel(v, (port)->membase + ATMEL_PDC_TCR) +#define UART_GET_TCR(port) __raw_readl((port)->membase + ATMEL_PDC_TCR) static int (*atmel_open_hook)(struct uart_port *); static void (*atmel_close_hook)(struct uart_port *); @@ -1275,6 +1276,7 @@ static void atmel_console_write(struct c { struct uart_port *port = &atmel_ports[co->index].uart; unsigned int status, imr; + unsigned int pdc_tx; /* * First, save IMR and then disable interrupts @@ -1282,6 +1284,10 @@ static void atmel_console_write(struct c imr = UART_GET_IMR(port); UART_PUT_IDR(port, ATMEL_US_RXRDY | ATMEL_US_TXRDY); + /* Store PDC transmit status and disable it */ + pdc_tx = UART_GET_PTSR(port) & ATMEL_PDC_TXTEN; + UART_PUT_PTCR(port, ATMEL_PDC_TXTDIS); + uart_console_write(port, s, count, atmel_console_putchar); /* @@ -1291,6 +1297,11 @@ static void atmel_console_write(struct c do { status = UART_GET_CSR(port); } while (!(status & ATMEL_US_TXRDY)); + + /* Restore PDC transmit status */ + if (pdc_tx) + UART_PUT_PTCR(port, ATMEL_PDC_TXTEN); + /* set interrupts back the way they were */ UART_PUT_IER(port, imr); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from marc.pignat@xxxxxxx are atmel_serial-fix-uart-console-concurrent-access.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html