Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: 8250_omap: do not defer termios changes

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 04/11/2016 07:53 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 04/11/2016 01:18 AM, John Ogness wrote:
>> On 2016-04-05, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 03/31/2016 01:41 AM, John Ogness wrote:
>>>> It has been observed that the TX-DMA can stall
>>>
>>> Does this happen on any other OMAP part besides am335x?
>>> I looked back over the LKML history of this and didn't see
>>> any other design implicated in this problem.
>>
>> I just ran the tests again using 4.6-rc2. I am able to reproduce the
>> dma-tx stall with am335x/edma and dra7/sdma.
> 
> I thought we already established sdma was not to be used since
> the hardware does not actually support pausing without data loss.

This workaround was not invented for sdma but for edma (with am335x).

> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg18503.html

This could be fixed. See
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg18517.html
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg18531.html

rmk was fine with it from what I read. So what is missing is just
refurbish the patch (update the comment according to rmk replay) and
then we could re-enable DMA again.

> So I'm wondering if we're carrying all this extra DMA complexity
> and workarounds for just am335x?
> 

Sebastian