Hi Dave,
On 09/26/2017 03:38 PM, Dave Martin wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:53:26PM +0530, Bhupinder Thakur wrote:
This patch fixes the issue observed when pl011 patches were tested on
the junos hardware by Andre/Julien. It was observed that when large output is
generated such as on running 'find /', output was getting truncated
intermittently
due to OUT ring buffer getting full.
This issue was due to the fact that the SBSA UART driver expects that when
a TX interrupt is asserted then the FIFO queue should be atleast half empty and
that it can write N bytes in the FIFO, where N is half the FIFO queue size,
without
the bytes getting dropped due to FIFO getting full.
The SBSA UART emulation logic was asserting the TX interrupt as soon as
any space became available in the FIFO and the SBSA UART driver tried to write
more data (upto 16 bytes) in the FIFO expecting that there is enough space
available leading to dropped bytes.
The SBSA spec [1] does not specify when the TX interrupt should be asserted
or de-asserted. Due to lack of clarity on the expected behavior, it is
assumed for now that TX interrupt should be asserted only when the FIFO goes
half empty.
TBD: Once the SBSA spec is updated with the expected behavior, the
implementation
will be modified to align with the spec requirement.
[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0183f/DDI0183.pdf
Signed-off-by: Bhupinder Thakur <bhupinder.tha...@linaro.org>
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CC: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
CC: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>
(Taking a quick look at this because I remember fighthing with FIFO
behaviour issues when hacking the Linux driver -- but beware, I'm not a
Xen guy...)
Should this patch be flattened into the patches is fixes? Keeping
known-wrong code in the series does not help reviewers (but maybe it's
the Xen way).
We usually prefer to have patch fold into the patches it fixes. However,
I specifically ask Bhupinder to do a follow-up because the rest of the
series is nearly ready.
So we could merge the first 25 patches before the code freeze as the two
other could be considered as bug fixes. This would allow us to get PL011
support in Xen 4.10.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
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