Re: [PATCH for 5.6 v2] tty: serial: tegra: Handle RX transfer in PIO mode if DMA wasn't started

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 19/02/2020 12:25, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 17.02.2020 10:37, Jiri Slaby пишет:
>> On 09. 02. 20, 17:44, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> It is possible to get an instant RX timeout or end-of-transfer interrupt
>>> before RX DMA was started, if transaction is less than 16 bytes. Transfer
>>> should be handled in PIO mode in this case because DMA can't handle it.
>>> This patch brings back the original behaviour of the driver that was
>>> changed by accident by a previous commit, it fixes occasional Bluetooth HW
>>> initialization failures which I started to notice recently.
>>>
>>> Fixes: d5e3fadb7012 ("tty: serial: tegra: Activate RX DMA transfer by request")
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>>
>>> v2: - Corrected commit's title by adding the accidentally missed "tegra: "
>>>       to the prefix.
>>>
>>>  drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c | 35 ++++++++++++++-----------------
>>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c
>>> index 33034b852a51..8de8bac9c6c7 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c
>>> @@ -692,11 +692,22 @@ static void tegra_uart_copy_rx_to_tty(struct tegra_uart_port *tup,
>>>  				   count, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +static void do_handle_rx_pio(struct tegra_uart_port *tup)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(&tup->uport.state->port);
>>> +	struct tty_port *port = &tup->uport.state->port;
>>> +
>>> +	tegra_uart_handle_rx_pio(tup, port);
>>> +	if (tty) {
>>
>> What's the tty good for here, actually?
>>
>>> +		tty_flip_buffer_push(port);
>>> +		tty_kref_put(tty);
>>> +	}
>>> +}
> 
> I'm not really a TTY expert..
> 
> Jon, maybe you have any clue whether TTY could disappear while port is
> opened?

Nothing specific that I am aware of. The function tty_kref_get() appears
to check that the tty pointer is valid and so it would seem logical to
check here as well. But happy to be corrected :-)

Jon

-- 
nvpublic