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Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in start_tx

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Hi Peter,

On 20.11.2015 18:16, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 11/20/2015 11:58 AM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 11:30AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>> On 11/20/2015 10:28 AM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 07:13AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>>>> On 11/19/2015 03:02 PM, Soren Brinkmann wrote:
>>>>>> start_tx must start transmitting characters. Regardless of the state of
>>>>>> the circular buffer, always enable the transmitter hardware.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why?
>>>>>
>>>>> Does cdns_uart_stop_tx() actually stop the transmitter so that
>>>>> data remains in the transmitter?
>>>>
>>>> Well, I saw my system freezing and the cause seemed to be that the UART
>>>> receiver and/or transmitters were disabled while the system was trying
>>>> to print. Hence, I started questioning all locations touching the
>>>> transmitter/receiver enable. I read the docs in
>>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/serial/driver, which simply
>>>> says "Start transmitting characters." for start_tx(). Hence, I thought,
>>>> this function is probably supposed to just do that and start the
>>>> transmitter. I'll test whether this patch can be dropped.
>>>
>>> I don't think that patch would fix any freeze problems, but restarting
>>> the transmitter even if the circ buffer is empty may be necessary to
>>> push out remaining data when the port is restarted after being stopped.
>>>
>>> IOW, something like
>>>
>>> 	if (uart_tx_stopped(port))
>>> 		return;
>>>
>>> 	....
>>>
>>>
>>> 	if (uart_circ_empty(&port->state->xmit)
>>> 		return;
>>
>> Thanks! I'll change the patch accordingly.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Below is a (work-in-progress) serial driver validation test for flow
>>> control handling (it may need some tuning for slow line speeds).
>>> Usual caveats apply. Takes ~40secs @ 115200.
>>
>> I'll try to get that running on my system.
> 
> The test below should pass too, but I know it won't because this xilinx
> driver isn't handling x_char at all.
> 
> Aside: does this h/w have rts driver/cts receiver?
> 
> --- >% ---
> --- /dev/null	2015-11-20 07:19:13.265468435 -0500
> +++ xchar.c	2015-11-20 11:55:26.210233102 -0500
> @@ -0,0 +1,354 @@
> +/*
> + * x_char unit test for tty drivers

All these tests looks very interesting. Do you have any any
work-in-progress repo with other tests? It will be good to run all of
them to validate our drivers.

Thanks,
Michal

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[PATH RESEND v2 00/10] tty: xuartps: Fix lock ups Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in start_tx Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-11-20 13:20 +0100
      Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter  in start_tx Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-20 16:30 +0100
        Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-11-20 17:40 +0100
          Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter  in start_tx Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-20 18:00 +0100
            Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-11-20 18:20 +0100
              Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter  in start_tx Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-20 18:30 +0100
              Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-23 08:10 +0100
                Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-11-23 21:10 +0100
                Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-24 08:50 +0100
      Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter  in start_tx Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-20 18:10 +0100
        Re: [PATH RESEND v2 03/10] tty: xuartps: Always enable transmitter in  start_tx Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-11-20 18:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 05/10] tty: xuartps: Improve startup function Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 08/10] tty: xuartps: Move RX path into helper function Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 06/10] tty: xuartps: Keep lock for whole ISR Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 09/10] tty: xuartps: Only handle RX IRQs when RX is enabled Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 10/10] tty: xuartps: Cleanup: Reformat if-else Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 07/10] tty: xuartps: Acquire port lock for shutdown Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 01/10] tty: xuartps: Beautify read-modify writes Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100
  [PATH RESEND v2 02/10] tty: xuartps: Use spinlock to serialize HW access Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com> - 2015-11-19 21:20 +0100

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