Re: [PATCH v4 05/14] serial: 8250_mxpcie: offload XON/XOFF flow control to MUEx50 hardware

From: Jiri Slaby

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 01:56:39 EST


On 29. 07. 26, 8:05, Crescent Hsieh wrote:
The MUEx50 UART can handle in-band software flow control (XON/XOFF)
directly in hardware.

Program the on-chip XON/XOFF characters from termios settings and enable
the corresponding MUEx50 flow control modes when IXON or IXOFF is
requested. Provide throttle and unthrottle callbacks so RX can be
stopped and resumed cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Crescent Hsieh <crescentcy.hsieh@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mxpcie.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mxpcie.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mxpcie.c
index 1124c7d951b3..0517caaf2d26 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mxpcie.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mxpcie.c
...> @@ -172,6 +184,23 @@ static void mxpcie8250_set_termios(struct uart_port *port,
efr |= (MOXA_PUART_EFR_AUTO_RTS | MOXA_PUART_EFR_AUTO_CTS);
up->port.status |= (UPSTAT_AUTORTS | UPSTAT_AUTOCTS);
}
+ /* Set on-chip software flow control character */
+ serial_out(up, MOXA_PUART_XON1, START_CHAR(tty));
+ serial_out(up, MOXA_PUART_XON2, START_CHAR(tty));
+ serial_out(up, MOXA_PUART_XOFF1, STOP_CHAR(tty));
+ serial_out(up, MOXA_PUART_XOFF2, STOP_CHAR(tty));
+
+ efr &= ~(MOXA_PUART_EFR_RX_FLOW_MASK | MOXA_PUART_EFR_TX_FLOW_MASK);

This is not needed, as you use FIELD_MODIFY(), right?

+ val = I_IXON(tty) ? MOXA_PUART_EFR_RX_FLOW_XON1_XOFF1 : MOXA_PUART_EFR_RX_FLOW_DISABLED;
+ efr = FIELD_MODIFY(MOXA_PUART_EFR_RX_FLOW_MASK, &efr, val);
+
+ val = I_IXOFF(tty) ? MOXA_PUART_EFR_TX_FLOW_XON1_XOFF1 : MOXA_PUART_EFR_TX_FLOW_DISABLED;
+ efr = FIELD_MODIFY(MOXA_PUART_EFR_TX_FLOW_MASK, &efr, val);

Assigning back to efr is unnecessary. The reg is updated in-place.

thanks,
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js
suse labs