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authorAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>2007-02-14 00:33:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-14 08:09:52 -0800
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[PATCH] 8250 UART backup timer
The patch below works around a minor bug found in the UART of the remote management card used in many HP ia64 and parisc servers (aka the Diva UARTs). The problem is that the UART does not reassert the THRE interrupt if it has been previously cleared and the IIR THRI bit is re-enabled. This can produce a very annoying failure mode when used as a serial console, allowing a boot/reboot to hang indefinitely until an RX interrupt kicks it into working again (ie. an unattended reboot could stall). To solve this problem, a backup timer is introduced that runs alongside the standard interrupt driven mechanism. This timer wakes up periodically, checks for a hang condition and gets characters moving again. This backup mechanism is only enabled if the UART is detected as having this problem, so systems without these UARTs will have no additional overhead. This version of the patch incorporates previous comments from Pavel and removes races in the bug detection code. The test is now done before the irq linking to prevent races with interrupt handler clearing the THRE interrupt. Short delays and syncs are also added to ensure the device is able to update register state before the result is tested. Aristeu says: this was tested on the following HP machines and solved the problem: rx2600, rx2620, rx1600 and rx1620s. hpa says: I have seen this same bug in soft UART IP from "a major vendor." Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/serial')
-rw-r--r--drivers/serial/8250.c178
1 files changed, 134 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c
index 2964ca9df5a0..98ec86185328 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -364,6 +364,23 @@ serial_out(struct uart_8250_port *up, int offset, int value)
}
}
+static void
+serial_out_sync(struct uart_8250_port *up, int offset, int value)
+{
+ switch (up->port.iotype) {
+ case UPIO_MEM:
+ case UPIO_MEM32:
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_AU1X00
+ case UPIO_AU:
+#endif
+ serial_out(up, offset, value);
+ serial_in(up, UART_LCR); /* safe, no side-effects */
+ break;
+ default:
+ serial_out(up, offset, value);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* We used to support using pause I/O for certain machines. We
* haven't supported this for a while, but just in case it's badly
@@ -1045,7 +1062,7 @@ static void autoconfig(struct uart_8250_port *up, unsigned int probeflags)
#endif
serial_outp(up, UART_MCR, save_mcr);
serial8250_clear_fifos(up);
- (void)serial_in(up, UART_RX);
+ serial_in(up, UART_RX);
if (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_UUE)
serial_outp(up, UART_IER, UART_IER_UUE);
else
@@ -1451,6 +1468,12 @@ static void serial_unlink_irq_chain(struct uart_8250_port *up)
serial_do_unlink(i, up);
}
+/* Base timer interval for polling */
+static inline int poll_timeout(int timeout)
+{
+ return timeout > 6 ? (timeout / 2 - 2) : 1;
+}
+
/*
* This function is used to handle ports that do not have an
* interrupt. This doesn't work very well for 16450's, but gives
@@ -1460,16 +1483,51 @@ static void serial_unlink_irq_chain(struct uart_8250_port *up)
static void serial8250_timeout(unsigned long data)
{
struct uart_8250_port *up = (struct uart_8250_port *)data;
- unsigned int timeout;
unsigned int iir;
iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR);
if (!(iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT))
serial8250_handle_port(up);
+ mod_timer(&up->timer, jiffies + poll_timeout(up->port.timeout));
+}
+
+static void serial8250_backup_timeout(unsigned long data)
+{
+ struct uart_8250_port *up = (struct uart_8250_port *)data;
+ unsigned int iir, ier = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Must disable interrupts or else we risk racing with the interrupt
+ * based handler.
+ */
+ if (is_real_interrupt(up->port.irq)) {
+ ier = serial_in(up, UART_IER);
+ serial_out(up, UART_IER, 0);
+ }
- timeout = up->port.timeout;
- timeout = timeout > 6 ? (timeout / 2 - 2) : 1;
- mod_timer(&up->timer, jiffies + timeout);
+ iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR);
+
+ /*
+ * This should be a safe test for anyone who doesn't trust the
+ * IIR bits on their UART, but it's specifically designed for
+ * the "Diva" UART used on the management processor on many HP
+ * ia64 and parisc boxes.
+ */
+ if ((iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT) && (up->ier & UART_IER_THRI) &&
+ (!uart_circ_empty(&up->port.info->xmit) || up->port.x_char) &&
+ (serial_in(up, UART_LSR) & UART_LSR_THRE)) {
+ iir &= ~(UART_IIR_ID | UART_IIR_NO_INT);
+ iir |= UART_IIR_THRI;
+ }
+
+ if (!(iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT))
+ serial8250_handle_port(up);
+
+ if (is_real_interrupt(up->port.irq))
+ serial_out(up, UART_IER, ier);
+
+ /* Standard timer interval plus 0.2s to keep the port running */
+ mod_timer(&up->timer, jiffies + poll_timeout(up->port.timeout) + HZ/5);
}
static unsigned int serial8250_tx_empty(struct uart_port *port)
@@ -1540,6 +1598,37 @@ static void serial8250_break_ctl(struct uart_port *port, int break_state)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags);
}
+#define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
+
+/*
+ * Wait for transmitter & holding register to empty
+ */
+static inline void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits)
+{
+ unsigned int status, tmout = 10000;
+
+ /* Wait up to 10ms for the character(s) to be sent. */
+ do {
+ status = serial_in(up, UART_LSR);
+
+ if (status & UART_LSR_BI)
+ up->lsr_break_flag = UART_LSR_BI;
+
+ if (--tmout == 0)
+ break;
+ udelay(1);
+ } while ((status & bits) != bits);
+
+ /* Wait up to 1s for flow control if necessary */
+ if (up->port.flags & UPF_CONS_FLOW) {
+ tmout = 1000000;
+ while (!(serial_in(up, UART_MSR) & UART_MSR_CTS) && --tmout) {
+ udelay(1);
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
+ }
+ }
+}
+
static int serial8250_startup(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct uart_8250_port *up = (struct uart_8250_port *)port;
@@ -1613,18 +1702,50 @@ static int serial8250_startup(struct uart_port *port)
serial_outp(up, UART_LCR, 0);
}
+ if (is_real_interrupt(up->port.irq)) {
+ /*
+ * Test for UARTs that do not reassert THRE when the
+ * transmitter is idle and the interrupt has already
+ * been cleared. Real 16550s should always reassert
+ * this interrupt whenever the transmitter is idle and
+ * the interrupt is enabled. Delays are necessary to
+ * allow register changes to become visible.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&up->port.lock, flags);
+
+ wait_for_xmitr(up, UART_LSR_THRE);
+ serial_out_sync(up, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI);
+ udelay(1); /* allow THRE to set */
+ serial_in(up, UART_IIR);
+ serial_out(up, UART_IER, 0);
+ serial_out_sync(up, UART_IER, UART_IER_THRI);
+ udelay(1); /* allow a working UART time to re-assert THRE */
+ iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR);
+ serial_out(up, UART_IER, 0);
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags);
+
+ /*
+ * If the interrupt is not reasserted, setup a timer to
+ * kick the UART on a regular basis.
+ */
+ if (iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT) {
+ pr_debug("ttyS%d - using backup timer\n", port->line);
+ up->timer.function = serial8250_backup_timeout;
+ up->timer.data = (unsigned long)up;
+ mod_timer(&up->timer, jiffies +
+ poll_timeout(up->port.timeout) + HZ/5);
+ }
+ }
+
/*
* If the "interrupt" for this port doesn't correspond with any
* hardware interrupt, we use a timer-based system. The original
* driver used to do this with IRQ0.
*/
if (!is_real_interrupt(up->port.irq)) {
- unsigned int timeout = up->port.timeout;
-
- timeout = timeout > 6 ? (timeout / 2 - 2) : 1;
-
up->timer.data = (unsigned long)up;
- mod_timer(&up->timer, jiffies + timeout);
+ mod_timer(&up->timer, jiffies + poll_timeout(up->port.timeout));
} else {
retval = serial_link_irq_chain(up);
if (retval)
@@ -1740,9 +1861,9 @@ static void serial8250_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
*/
(void) serial_in(up, UART_RX);
- if (!is_real_interrupt(up->port.irq))
- del_timer_sync(&up->timer);
- else
+ del_timer_sync(&up->timer);
+ up->timer.function = serial8250_timeout;
+ if (is_real_interrupt(up->port.irq))
serial_unlink_irq_chain(up);
}
@@ -2212,37 +2333,6 @@ serial8250_register_ports(struct uart_driver *drv, struct device *dev)
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
-#define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
-
-/*
- * Wait for transmitter & holding register to empty
- */
-static inline void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits)
-{
- unsigned int status, tmout = 10000;
-
- /* Wait up to 10ms for the character(s) to be sent. */
- do {
- status = serial_in(up, UART_LSR);
-
- if (status & UART_LSR_BI)
- up->lsr_break_flag = UART_LSR_BI;
-
- if (--tmout == 0)
- break;
- udelay(1);
- } while ((status & bits) != bits);
-
- /* Wait up to 1s for flow control if necessary */
- if (up->port.flags & UPF_CONS_FLOW) {
- tmout = 1000000;
- while (!(serial_in(up, UART_MSR) & UART_MSR_CTS) && --tmout) {
- udelay(1);
- touch_nmi_watchdog();
- }
- }
-}
-
static void serial8250_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch)
{
struct uart_8250_port *up = (struct uart_8250_port *)port;