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authorAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>2009-02-18 17:48:28 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-18 18:37:55 -0500
commit27c0c8e511fa9e2389503926840fac606d90a049 (patch)
treec1cc9bd15f9469c16864e0ae975f17791836e095 /drivers
parent287d859222e0adbc67666a6154aaf42d7d5bbb54 (diff)
atmel_serial might lose modem status change
I found a problem of handling of modem status of atmel_serial driver. With the commit 1ecc26 ("atmel_serial: split the interrupt handler"), handling of modem status signal was splitted into two parts. The atmel_tasklet_func() compares new status with irq_status_prev, but irq_status_prev is not correct if signal status was changed while the port is closed. Here is a sequence to cause problem: 1. Remote side sets CTS (and DSR). 2. Local side close the port. 3. Local side clears RTS and DTR. 4. Remote side clears CTS and DSR. 5. Local side reopen the port. hw_stopped becomes 1. 6. Local side sets RTS and DTR. 7. Remote side sets CTS and DSR. Then CTS change interrupt can be received, but since CTS bit in irq_status_prev and new status is same, uart_handle_cts_change() will not be called (so hw_stopped will not be cleared, i.e. cannot send any data). I suppose irq_status_prev should be initialized at somewhere in open sequence. Itai Levi pointed out that we need to initialize atmel_port->irq_status as well here. His analysis is as follows: > Regarding the second part of the patch (which resets irq_status_prev), > it turns out that both versions of the patch (mine and Atsushi's) > still leave enough room for faulty behavior when opening the port. > > This is because we are not resetting both irq_status_prev and > irq_status in atmel_startup() to CSR, which leads faulty behavior in > the following sequences: > > First case: > 1. closing the port while CTS line = 1 (TX not allowed) > 2. setting CTS line = 0 (TX allowed) > 3. opening the port > 4. transmitting one char > 5. Cannot transmit more chars, although CTS line is 0 > > Second case: > 1. closing the port while CTS line = 0 (TX allowed) > 2. setting CTS line = 1 (TX not allowed) > 3. opening the port > 4. receiving some chars > 5. Now we can transmit, although CTS line is 1 > > This reason for this is that the tasklet is scheduled as a result of > TX or RX interrupts (not a status change!), in steps 4 above. Inside > the tasklet, the atmel_port->irq_status (which holds the value from > the previous session) is compared to atmel_port->irq_status_prev. > Hence, a status-change of the CTS line is faultily detected. > > Both cases were verified on 9260 hardware. [haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com: folded with patch from Itai Levi] Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net> Cc: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch> Cc: Itai Levi <itai.levi.devel@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c
index 89362d733d62..8f58f7ff0dd7 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -877,6 +877,10 @@ static int atmel_startup(struct uart_port *port)
877 } 877 }
878 } 878 }
879 879
880 /* Save current CSR for comparison in atmel_tasklet_func() */
881 atmel_port->irq_status_prev = UART_GET_CSR(port);
882 atmel_port->irq_status = atmel_port->irq_status_prev;
883
880 /* 884 /*
881 * Finally, enable the serial port 885 * Finally, enable the serial port
882 */ 886 */