Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: atmel_serial: BUG: stop DMA from transmitting in stop_tx

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 02:09:07 EST


On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 03:16:46PM +0100, Richard Genoud wrote:
> 2017-01-02 12:13 GMT+01:00 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Le 13/12/2016 à 17:27, Richard Genoud a écrit :
> >> If we don't disable the transmitter in atmel_stop_tx, the DMA buffer
> >> continues to send data until it is emptied.
> >> This cause problems with the flow control (CTS is asserted and data are
> >> still sent).
> >>
> >> So, disabling the transmitter in atmel_stop_tx is a sane thing to do.
> >>
> >> Tested on at91sam9g35-cm(DMA)
> >> Tested for regressions on sama5d2-xplained(Fifo) and at91sam9g20ek(PDC)
> >>
> >> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (beware, this won't apply before 4.3)
> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >> ---
> >> drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 11 +++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> NB: this is not for the 4.10 merge window, I'm just sending it now to
> >> have some comments if someone is againts it.
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> >> index 168b10cad47b..f9d42de5ab2d 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> >> @@ -481,6 +481,14 @@ static void atmel_stop_tx(struct uart_port *port)
> >> /* disable PDC transmit */
> >> atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_PDC_PTCR, ATMEL_PDC_TXTDIS);
> >> }
> >> +
> >> + /*
> >> + * Disable the transmitter.
> >> + * This is mandatory when DMA is used, otherwise the DMA buffer
> >> + * is fully transmitted.
> >> + */
> >> + atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_CR, ATMEL_US_TXDIS);
> >> +
> >> /* Disable interrupts */
> >> atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_IDR, atmel_port->tx_done_mask);
> >>
> >> @@ -513,6 +521,9 @@ static void atmel_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
> >>
> >> /* Enable interrupts */
> >> atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_IER, atmel_port->tx_done_mask);
> >> +
> >> + /* re-enable the transmitter */
> >> + atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_CR, ATMEL_US_TXEN);
> >> }
> >>
> >> /*
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nicolas Ferre
>
> Greg, could you also take this patch in your tree ?

Yup!