lede/target/linux/bcm27xx/patches-5.4/950-0407-tty-amba-pl011-Avoid-rare-write-when-full-error.patch
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kernel: bump 5.4 to 5.4.75 (#5780)
[mac80211]
 5b29614 mac80211: another fix for the sta connection monitor
 1ed6eb1 mac80211: backport sched_set_fifo_low
 cba4120 mac80211: add support for specifying a per-device scan list
 e0d482f rt2x00: mt7620: differentiate based on SoC's CHIP_VER

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 amd64-microcode/intel-microcode/linux-firmware: update version
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From 66ca4b2544dbd4f10d8f387782f5c7200d1e2167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:35:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: Avoid rare write-when-full error
Under some circumstances on BCM283x processors data loss can be
observed - a single byte missing from the TX output stream. These bytes
are always the last byte of a batch of 8 written from pl011_tx_chars
when from_irq is true, meaning that the FIFO full flag is not checked
before writing.
The transmit optimisation relies on the FIFO being half-empty when the
TX interrupt is raised. Instrumenting the driver further showed that
the failure case correlated with the TX FIFO full flag being set at the
point where the last byte was written to the data register, which
explains the data loss but not how the FIFO appeared to be prematurely
full. A possible explanation is that a FIFO write was in flight at the
time the interrupt was raised, but as yet there is no hypothesis as to
how this might occur.
In the absence of a clear understanding of the failure mechanism, avoid
the problem by checking the FIFO levels before writing the last byte of
the group, which will have minimal performance impact.
Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
---
drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
@@ -1447,6 +1447,10 @@ static bool pl011_tx_chars(struct uart_a
if (likely(from_irq) && count-- == 0)
break;
+ if (likely(from_irq) && count == 0 &&
+ pl011_read(uap, REG_FR) & UART01x_FR_TXFF)
+ break;
+
if (!pl011_tx_char(uap, xmit->buf[xmit->tail], from_irq))
break;