Re: [PATCH 4/8] serial: 8250: Handle case port doesn't have TEMT interrupt using em485.

From: Giulio Benetti
Date: Mon Jun 04 2018 - 07:50:44 EST


Hi,

Il 04/06/2018 13:38, Andy Shevchenko ha scritto:
On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 12:50 +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
Hi,

Il 04/06/2018 12:17, Andy Shevchenko ha scritto:
On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 14:40 +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
Some 8250 ports only have TEMT interrupt, so current
implementation
can't work for ports without it. The only chance to make it work
is to
loop-read on LSR register.

With NO TEMT interrupt check if both TEMT and THRE are set looping
on
LSR register.
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
- int ret = serial8250_em485_init(up);
+ int ret = serial8250_em485_init(up, false);

Is true for all possible DW configured types? Or it's your
particular
case?


I've checked on Synopsis Designware 8250 datasheet and it's not
supported.
Here is datasheet I went through:
https://linux-sunxi.org/images/d/d2/Dw_apb_uart_db.pdf

There seems not to be TEMT interrupt, I use it under sunxi SoC and on
their datasheet(A20 for example), they don't report that interrupt
too.
So it seems to be valid for all DW configured types, anyway I don't
know
how many IP reviews there could be of that peripheral.

This is an excerpt from the document you referred to:

--- 8< --- 8< ---

6 TEMT R Transmitter Empty bit. If in FIFO mode (FIFO_MODE != NONE) and
FIFOs enabled (FCR[0] set to one), this bit is set whenever the
Transmitter Shift Register and the FIFO are both empty. If in non-FIFO
mode or FIFOs are disabled, this bit is set whenever the Transmitter
Holding Register and the Transmitter Shift Register are both empty.

Reset Value: 0x1

--- 8< --- 8< ---


If I'm reading this correctly the support is there. Or otherwise, care
to point exact paragraph needs to be read and checked?

In the beginning I thought the same as you but
unfortunately LSR is only a status register and IER doesn't have corresponding TEMT bit to enable an interrupt on TEMT triggering.
On OMAP instead there is a specific interrupt bound to TEMT LSR flag.
And THRE interrupt is not enough because shift register won't be empty when it triggers, so you would loose some bit of last byte to be transmitted.

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