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    serial: sc16is7xx: address RX timeout interrupt errata · 08ce9a1b
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    This device has a silicon bug that makes it report a timeout interrupt
    but no data in the FIFO.
    
    The datasheet states the following in the errata section 18.1.4:
    
      "If the host reads the receive FIFO at the same time as a
      time-out interrupt condition happens, the host might read 0xCC
      (time-out) in the Interrupt Indication Register (IIR), but bit 0
      of the Line Status Register (LSR) is not set (means there is no
      data in the receive FIFO)."
    
    The errata description seems to indicate it concerns only polled mode of
    operation when reading bit 0 of the LSR register. However, tests have
    shown and NXP has confirmed that the RXLVL register also yields 0 when
    the bug is triggered, and hence the IRQ driven implementation in this
    driver is equally affected.
    
    This bug has hit us on production units and when it does, sc16is7xx_irq()
    would spin forever because sc16is7xx_port_irq() keeps seeing an
    interrupt in the IIR register that is not cleared because the driver
    does not call into sc16is7xx_handle_rx() unless the RXLVL register
    reports at least one byte in the FIFO.
    
    Fix this by always reading one byte from the FIFO when this condition
    is detected in order to clear the interrupt. This approach was
    confirmed to be correct by NXP through their support channels.
    
    Tested by: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
    Co-Developed-by: default avatarMaxim Popov <maxim.snafu@gmail.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231123072818.1394539-1-daniel@zonque.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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