linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] serial: 8250: Add flag so drivers can avoid THRE probe

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Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:14:57 +1030
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] serial: 8250: Add flag so drivers can avoid THRE probe

The probing of THRE irq behaviour assumes the other end will be reading
bytes out of the buffer in order to probe the port at driver init. In
some cases the other end cannot be relied upon to read these bytes, so
provide a flag for them to skip this step.

Bit 16 was chosen as the flags are a int and the top bits are taken.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 2 +-
 include/linux/serial_core.h         | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index fe4399b41df6..f4c6da107dec 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -2205,7 +2205,7 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (port->irq) {
+	if (port->irq && !(up->port.flags & UPF_NO_THRE_TEST)) {
 		unsigned char iir1;
 		/*
 		 * Test for UARTs that do not reassert THRE when the
diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
index 5def8e830fb0..f9e1fa39f553 100644
--- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ struct uart_port {
 #define UPF_NO_TXEN_TEST	((__force upf_t) (1 << 15))
 #define UPF_MAGIC_MULTIPLIER	((__force upf_t) ASYNC_MAGIC_MULTIPLIER /* 16 */ )
 
+#define UPF_NO_THRE_TEST	((__force upf_t) (1 << 19))
 /* Port has hardware-assisted h/w flow control */
 #define UPF_AUTO_CTS		((__force upf_t) (1 << 20))
 #define UPF_AUTO_RTS		((__force upf_t) (1 << 21))
-- 
2.11.0