This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: add PORT_ASPEED_VUART port type
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
serial-8250_aspeed_vuart-add-port_aspeed_vuart-port-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit acb91ebd07d542721b85d37cc3f8871f452c56f7
Author: Zev Weiss <zev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 10 16:42:03 2022 -0800
serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: add PORT_ASPEED_VUART port type
[ Upstream commit a603ca60cebff8589882427a67f870ed946b3fc8 ]
Commit 54da3e381c2b ("serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: use UPF_IOREMAP to
set up register mapping") fixed a bug that had, as a side-effect,
prevented the 8250_aspeed_vuart driver from enabling the VUART's
FIFOs. However, fixing that (and hence enabling the FIFOs) has in
turn revealed what appears to be a hardware bug in the ASPEED VUART in
which the host-side THRE bit doesn't get if the BMC-side receive FIFO
trigger level is set to anything but one byte. This causes problems
for polled-mode writes from the host -- for example, Linux kernel
console writes proceed at a glacial pace (less than 100 bytes per
second) because the write path waits for a 10ms timeout to expire
after every character instead of being able to continue on to the next
character upon seeing THRE asserted. (GRUB behaves similarly.)
As a workaround, introduce a new port type for the ASPEED VUART that's
identical to PORT_16550A as it had previously been using, but with
UART_FCR_R_TRIG_00 instead to set the receive FIFO trigger level to
one byte, which (experimentally) seems to avoid the problematic THRE
behavior.
Fixes: 54da3e381c2b ("serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: use UPF_IOREMAP to set up register mapping")
Tested-by: Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220211004203.14915-1-zev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
index 2350fb3bb5e4..c2cecc6f47db 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static int aspeed_vuart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
port.port.irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0);
port.port.handle_irq = aspeed_vuart_handle_irq;
port.port.iotype = UPIO_MEM;
- port.port.type = PORT_16550A;
+ port.port.type = PORT_ASPEED_VUART;
port.port.uartclk = clk;
port.port.flags = UPF_SHARE_IRQ | UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF | UPF_IOREMAP
| UPF_FIXED_PORT | UPF_FIXED_TYPE | UPF_NO_THRE_TEST;
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index ec88b706e882..b470bc747b99 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -307,6 +307,14 @@ static const struct serial8250_config uart_config[] = {
.rxtrig_bytes = {1, 32, 64, 112},
.flags = UART_CAP_FIFO | UART_CAP_SLEEP,
},
+ [PORT_ASPEED_VUART] = {
+ .name = "ASPEED VUART",
+ .fifo_size = 16,
+ .tx_loadsz = 16,
+ .fcr = UART_FCR_ENABLE_FIFO | UART_FCR_R_TRIG_00,
+ .rxtrig_bytes = {1, 4, 8, 14},
+ .flags = UART_CAP_FIFO,
+ },
};
/* Uart divisor latch read */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h b/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
index c4042dcfdc0c..8885e69178bd 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@
/* NVIDIA Tegra Combined UART */
#define PORT_TEGRA_TCU 41
+/* ASPEED AST2x00 virtual UART */
+#define PORT_ASPEED_VUART 42
+
/* Intel EG20 */
#define PORT_PCH_8LINE 44
#define PORT_PCH_2LINE 45
