Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] serial: tegra-utc: Add driver for Tegra UART Trace Controller (UTC)

[andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:05:36AM +0000, Kartik Rajput wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-02-12 at 17:09 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 04:11:32PM +0530, Kartik Rajput wrote:

...

> > > +     for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> > > +             if (!nbcon_enter_unsafe(wctxt))
> > > +                     break;
> > > +
> > > +             read_poll_timeout_atomic(tegra_utc_tx_readl, val,
> > > !(val & TEGRA_UTC_FIFO_FULL),
> > > +                                      0, USEC_PER_SEC, false, tup,
> > > TEGRA_UTC_FIFO_STATUS);
> > 
> > No error check?
> 
> I'm not sure about this. The case where the TX FIFO doesn't clear up,
> even after polling for 1 second, is highly unlikely, especially since
> there's no flow control involved here. Even if that did happen, writing
> to the TX FIFO should just result in an overflow, which is probably
> acceptable in this scenario.

Perhaps a warning (debug?) message in such a case?

> > > +             uart_console_write(&tup->port, wctxt->outbuf + i, 1,
> > > tegra_utc_console_putchar);
> > > +
> > > +             if (!nbcon_exit_unsafe(wctxt))
> > > +                     break;
> > > +     }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko