linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] msm: Support DEBUG

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Message-ID: <4E8404A2.10702@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:39:46 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
CC:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] msm: Support DEBUG_LL on MSM8660 and MSM8960

On 9/28/2011 9:21 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
>
>>  	.macro	senduart,rd,rx
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MSM_HAS_DEBUG_UART_HS
>> +	@ Clear TX_READY by writing to the UARTDM_CR register
>> +	mov	r12, #0x300
>> +	str	r12, [\rx, #0x10]
>> +	@ Write 0x1 to NCF register
>> +	mov 	r12, #0x1
>> +	str	r12, [\rx, #0x40]
>> +	@ UARTDM reg. Read to induce delay
>> +	ldr	r12, [\rx, #0x08]
>> +	@ Write the 1 character to UARTDM_TF
>> +	str	\rd, [\rx, #0x70]
> This is a really bad idea to pick a register (r12) when the calling code 
> is completely unaware of that.  This _will_ break on you someday.
>
> Except for the last line, why didn't you simply fold this code into the 
> waituart macro instead?

We need to configure the uart to be ready for a write and it didn't seem
appropriate to put that in the waituart macro because it isn't actually
waiting for anything. I suppose putting it after the waiting is fine
though and avoids future breakage. Thanks.

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