DW UART cannot write to LCR, DLL, and DLH while BUSY is asserted.
Existance of BUSY depends on uart_16550_compatible, if UART HW is
configured with it those registers can always be written.
There currently is dw8250_force_idle() which attempts to achieve
non-BUSY state by disabling FIFO, however, the solution is unreliable
when Rx keeps getting more and more characters.
Create a sequence of operations that ensures UART cannot keep BUSY
asserted indefinitely. The new sequence relies on enabling loopback mode
temporarily to prevent incoming Rx characters keeping UART BUSY.
Ensure no Tx in ongoing while the UART is switches into the loopback
mode (requires exporting serial8250_fifo_wait_for_lsr_thre() and adding
DMA Tx pause/resume functions).
According to tests performed by Adriana Nicolae <adriana@arista.com>,
simply disabling FIFO or clearing FIFOs only once does not always
ensure BUSY is deasserted but up to two tries may be needed. This could
be related to ongoing Rx of a character (a guess, not known for sure).
Therefore, retry FIFO clearing a few times (retry limit 4 is arbitrary
number but using, e.g., p->fifosize seems overly large). Tests
performed by others did not exhibit similar challenge but it does not
seem harmful to leave the FIFO clearing loop in place for all DW UARTs
with BUSY functionality.
Use the new dw8250_idle_enter/exit() to do divisor writes and LCR
writes. In case of plain LCR writes, opportunistically try to update
LCR first and only invoke dw8250_idle_enter() if the write did not
succeed (it has been observed that in practice most LCR writes do
succeed without complications).
This issue was first reported by qianfan Zhao who put lots of debugging
effort into understanding the solution space.
Fixes: c49436b657 ("serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround")
Fixes: 7d4008ebb1 ("tty: add a DesignWare 8250 driver")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: qianfan Zhao <qianfanguijin@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/289bb78a-7509-1c5c-2923-a04ed3b6487d@163.com/
Reported-by: Adriana Nicolae <adriana@arista.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20250819182322.3451959-1-adriana@arista.com/
Reported-by: Bandal, Shankar <shankar.bandal@intel.com>
Tested-by: Bandal, Shankar <shankar.bandal@intel.com>
Tested-by: Murthy, Shanth <shanth.murthy@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203171049.4353-8-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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