Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] serial: 8250: Add 8250 port clock update method

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 02:31:33AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Some platforms can be designed in a way so the UART port reference clock
> might be asynchronously changed at some point. In Baikal-T1 SoC this may
> happen due to the reference clock being shared between two UART ports, on
> the Allwinner SoC the reference clock is derived from the CPU clock, so
> any CPU frequency change should get to be known/reflected by/in the UART
> controller as well. But it's not enough to just update the
> uart_port->uartclk field of the corresponding UART port, the 8250
> controller reference clock divisor should be altered so to preserve
> current baud rate setting. All of these things is done in a coherent
> way by calling the serial8250_update_uartclk() method provided in this
> patch. Though note that it isn't supposed to be called from within the
> UART port callbacks because the locks using to the protect the UART port
> data are already taken in there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Long Cheng <long.cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mediatek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/serial_8250.h         |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> index 4d83c85a7389..484ff9df1432 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> @@ -2628,6 +2628,44 @@ static unsigned int serial8250_get_baud_rate(struct uart_port *port,
>  				  (port->uartclk + tolerance) / 16);
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Note in order to avoid the tty port mutex deadlock don't use the next method
> + * within the uart port callbacks. Primarily it's supposed to be utilized to
> + * handle a sudden reference clock rate change.
> + */
> +void serial8250_update_uartclk(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int uartclk)
> +{
> +	struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(port);
> +	unsigned int baud, quot, frac = 0;
> +	struct ktermios *termios;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&port->state->port.mutex);
> +
> +	if (port->uartclk == uartclk)
> +		goto out_lock;
> +
> +	port->uartclk = uartclk;
> +	termios = &port->state->port.tty->termios;
> +
> +	baud = serial8250_get_baud_rate(port, termios, NULL);
> +	quot = serial8250_get_divisor(port, baud, &frac);
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
> +
> +	uart_update_timeout(port, termios->c_cflag, baud);
> +
> +	serial8250_set_divisor(port, baud, quot, frac);
> +	serial_port_out(port, UART_LCR, up->lcr);
> +	serial8250_out_MCR(up, UART_MCR_DTR | UART_MCR_RTS);
> +
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
> +
> +out_lock:
> +	mutex_unlock(&port->state->port.mutex);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(serial8250_update_uartclk);

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() please.

thanks,

greg k-h