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Message-ID: <5421A7F7.3070109@hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:03:51 -0400
From: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Frans Klaver <frans.klaver@...ns.com>
CC: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
tony@...mide.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, balbi@...com,
linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] tty: serial: 8250_dma: Add a TX trigger workaround
for AM33xx
On 09/21/2014 04:41 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Frans Klaver | 2014-09-17 12:28:12 [+0200]:
>
>> - Bone Black: Yocto poky, core-image-minimal
>> Login, "less file" locks up, doesn't show anything. I can exit using
>> Ctrl-C.
>
> So I have the same with my and the serial-omap driver. No difference
> here. The trace looks like this:
> | <idle>-0 [000] d.h. 444.393585: serial8250_handle_irq: iir cc lsr 61
> | <idle>-0 [000] d.h. 444.393605: serial8250_rx_chars: get 0d
> received the enter key
>
> | <idle>-0 [000] d.h. 444.393609: serial8250_rx_chars: insert d lsr 61
> | <idle>-0 [000] d.h. 444.393614: uart_insert_char: 1
> | <idle>-0 [000] d.h. 444.393617: uart_insert_char: 2
> | <idle>-0 [000] dnh. 444.393636: serial8250_tx_chars: empty
> | kworker/0:2-753 [000] d... 444.393686: serial8250_start_tx: empty?1
> | kworker/0:2-753 [000] d.h. 444.393699: serial8250_handle_irq: iir c2 lsr 60
> | kworker/0:2-753 [000] d.h. 444.393705: serial8250_tx_chars: empty
> | sh-1042 [000] d... 444.393822: serial8250_start_tx: empty?1
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.393836: serial8250_handle_irq: iir c2 lsr 60
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.393842: serial8250_tx_chars: empty
> | sh-1042 [000] d... 444.393855: serial8250_start_tx: empty?0
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.393863: serial8250_handle_irq: iir c2 lsr 60
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.393867: serial8250_tx_chars: put 0d
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.393871: serial8250_tx_chars: put 0a
>
> shell responded with "\r\n" which I see and then
>
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.394057: serial8250_handle_irq: iir c2 lsr 60
> | sh-1042 [000] d.h. 444.394065: serial8250_tx_chars: empty
>
> nothing more. less isn't sending data for some reason. Exactly the same
> thing happens in a Debian environment except that it continues:
> …
> | bash-2468 [000] d.h. 99.657899: serial8250_tx_chars: put 0a
> | bash-2468 [000] d.h. 99.658089: serial8250_handle_irq: iir c2 lsr 60
> | bash-2468 [000] d.h. 99.658095: serial8250_tx_chars: empty
> =>
> | less-2474 [000] d... 99.696038: serial8250_start_tx: empty?0
> | less-2474 [000] d.h. 99.696069: serial8250_handle_irq: iir c2 lsr 60
> | less-2474 [000] d.h. 99.696078: serial8250_tx_chars: put 1b
> | less-2474 [000] d.h. 99.696082: serial8250_tx_chars: put 5b
> | less-2474 [000] d.h. 99.696085: serial8250_tx_chars: put 3f
> | less-2474 [000] d.h. 99.696087: serial8250_tx_chars: put 31
>
> It has to be something about the environment. Booting Debian and chroot
> into this RFS and less works perfectly. But since it behaves like that
> with both drivers, I guess the problem is somewhere else…
>
>> vi runs normally, only occupies part of the total screen estate in
>> minicom. After quitting, a weird character shows up (typically I see
>> ÿ there), but minicom can use the rest of the screen estate again.
>> If we disregard the odd character, this is much like the behavior we
>> have on the omap-serial driver.
>> - Custom board: Yocto poky, custom image
>> Login, "less file" locks up, showing only "ÿ" in the top left corner
>> of the screen. Can get out of there by having something dumped through
>> /dev/kmsg.
>
> I managed to run into something like that with vi on dra7 and with
> little more patience on am335x as well by "vi *" and then ":n".
>
> This gets fixed indeed by writing. Hours of debugging and a lot of hair
> less later: the yocto RFS calls set_termios quite a lot.
readline() does this; it 'saves' the caller's termios, sets termios
for non-canonical reads, reads one char, and 'restores' the caller's
termios.
> This includes
> changing the baudrate (not by yocto but the driver sets it to 0 and then
> to the requested one) and this seems to be responsible for the "bad
> bytes". I haven't figured out yet I don't see this with omap-serial.
> Even worse: If this (set_termios()) happens while the DMA is still
> active then it might stall it. A write into the FIFO seems to fix it and
> this is where your "echo >/dev/kmsg" fixes things.
> If I delay the restore_registers part of set_termios() until TX-DMA is
> complete then it seems that the TX-DMA stall does not tall anymore.
The tty core calls the driver's wait_until_sent() method before changing
the termios (if TCSADRAIN is used for tcsetattr(), which I think for readline()
it does).
But DMA is cheating if the UART driver's tx_empty() method is saying the
transmitter is empty while TX DMA is still running.
Regards,
Peter Hurley
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