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Dave Martin authored
Commit 734745ca serial/amba-pl011: (Activate TX IRQ passively) introduces a race which causes the driver sometimes to attempt to write a character to the TX FIFO when the FIFO is already full. The PL011 does not guarantee its behaviour when the FIFO is overfilled. In practice, this can cause duplicate and/or dropped characters to be output on the wire. The problem is common enough to be readily observable on the ARM Juno platform when the PL011 UART is used as the console and DMA is not in use. This patch fixes this problem by always polling for space before each character is written to the FIFO. This will be amended to a less brute-force approach in a later commit, but this patch should help ensure correct behaviour for now. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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