Re: [PATCH v3] serial: imx: fix tx statemachine deadlock

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 24/11/2023 14.11, Paul Geurts wrote:
> When using the serial port as RS485 port, the tx statemachine is used to
> control the RTS pin to drive the RS485 transceiver TX_EN pin. When the
> TTY port is closed in the middle of a transmission (for instance during
> userland application crash), imx_uart_shutdown disables the interface
> and disables the Transmission Complete interrupt. afer that,
> imx_uart_stop_tx bails on an incomplete transmission, to be retriggered
> by the TC interrupt. This interrupt is disabled and therefore the tx
> statemachine never transitions out of SEND. The statemachine is in
> deadlock now, and the TX_EN remains low, making the interface useless.
> 
> imx_uart_stop_tx now checks for incomplete transmission AND whether TC
> interrupts are enabled before bailing to be retriggered. This makes sure
> the state machine handling is reached, and is properly set to
> WAIT_AFTER_SEND.
> 
> Fixes: cb1a60923609 ("serial: imx: implement rts delaying for rs485")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Geurts <paul_geurts@xxxxxxx>

Hi Paul

Interestingly, both Eberhard (cc'ed) and I have hit similar problems in
this driver recently. See the thread
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231120132256.136625-1-rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx/
.

It is possible that this also fixes the problems I/we saw, but I can't
get around to testing until sometime next week.

Rasmus