Commit 1788cf6a91d9 ("tty: serial: switch from circ_buf to kfifo") introduced an error in the TX DMA handling for 8250_omap.
When the OMAP_DMA_TX_KICK flag is set, the "skip_byte" is pulled from the kfifo and emitted directly in order to start the DMA. While the kfifo is updated, dma->tx_size is not decreased. This leads to uart_xmit_advance() called in omap_8250_dma_tx_complete() advancing the kfifo by one too much.
In practice, transmitting N bytes has been seen to result in the last N-1 bytes being sent repeatedly.
This change fixes the problem by moving all of the dma setup after the OMAP_DMA_TX_KICK handling and using kfifo_len() instead of the DMA size for the 4-byte cutoff check. This slightly changes the behaviour at buffer wraparound, but it still transmits the correct bytes somehow.
Now, the "skip_byte" would no longer be accounted to the stats. As previously, dma->tx_size included also this skip byte, up->icount.tx was updated by aforementioned uart_xmit_advance() in omap_8250_dma_tx_complete(). Fix this by using the uart_fifo_out() helper instead of bare kfifo_get().
Based on patch by Mans Rullgard mans@mansr.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) jirislaby@kernel.org Fixes: 1788cf6a91d9 ("tty: serial: switch from circ_buf to kfifo") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250506150748.3162-1-mans@mansr.com/ Reported-by: Mans Rullgard mans@mansr.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
--- [v2] S-O-B added --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c | 25 ++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c index 2a0ce11f405d..72ae08d6204f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c @@ -1173,16 +1173,6 @@ static int omap_8250_tx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p) return 0; }
- sg_init_table(&sg, 1); - ret = kfifo_dma_out_prepare_mapped(&tport->xmit_fifo, &sg, 1, - UART_XMIT_SIZE, dma->tx_addr); - if (ret != 1) { - serial8250_clear_THRI(p); - return 0; - } - - dma->tx_size = sg_dma_len(&sg); - if (priv->habit & OMAP_DMA_TX_KICK) { unsigned char c; u8 tx_lvl; @@ -1207,18 +1197,22 @@ static int omap_8250_tx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p) ret = -EBUSY; goto err; } - if (dma->tx_size < 4) { + if (kfifo_len(&tport->xmit_fifo) < 4) { ret = -EINVAL; goto err; } - if (!kfifo_get(&tport->xmit_fifo, &c)) { + if (!uart_fifo_out(&p->port, &c, 1)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto err; } skip_byte = c; - /* now we need to recompute due to kfifo_get */ - kfifo_dma_out_prepare_mapped(&tport->xmit_fifo, &sg, 1, - UART_XMIT_SIZE, dma->tx_addr); + } + + sg_init_table(&sg, 1); + ret = kfifo_dma_out_prepare_mapped(&tport->xmit_fifo, &sg, 1, UART_XMIT_SIZE, dma->tx_addr); + if (ret != 1) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto err; }
desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(dma->txchan, &sg, 1, DMA_MEM_TO_DEV, @@ -1228,6 +1222,7 @@ static int omap_8250_tx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p) goto err; }
+ dma->tx_size = sg_dma_len(&sg); dma->tx_running = 1;
desc->callback = omap_8250_dma_tx_complete;