On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:59 PM, James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com> wrote:
> It appears to work with ~0x20 too, and the workaround isn't getting hit (only
> tested boot and logging in - nothing fancy). I think having the printks in
> this code with the console directed at the serial must have caused
> resursion/busy problems somehow.
James,
I tested tested the code you proposed (cleaned up to avoid magic
numbers) on my hardware and it works fine.
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index 4658e3e..5f096c7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uart_port *p,
int offset, int value)
if (offset == UART_LCR) {
int tries = 1000;
while (tries--) {
- if (value == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR))
+ unsigned int lcr = p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR);
+ if ((value & ~UART_LCR_SPAR) == (lcr & ~UART_LCR_SPAR))
return;
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
@@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct uart_port
*p, int offset, int value)
if (offset == UART_LCR) {
int tries = 1000;
while (tries--) {
- if (value == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR))
+ unsigned int lcr = p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR);
+ if ((value & ~UART_LCR_SPAR) == (lcr & ~UART_LCR_SPAR))
return;
dw8250_force_idle(p);
writel(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
Would you mind posting this for proper review so we can get the fix in?
Thanks,
Tim Kryger
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