On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:59 PM, James Hogan [off-list ref] wrote:

It appears to work with ~0x20 too, and the workaround isn't getting hit (only
tested boot and logging in - nothing fancy). I think having the printks in
this code with the console directed at the serial must have caused
resursion/busy problems somehow.

James,

I tested tested the code you proposed (cleaned up to avoid magic
numbers) on my hardware and it works fine.

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c

b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index 4658e3e..5f096c7 100644

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c

@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uart_port *p,

int offset, int value)
        if (offset == UART_LCR) {
                int tries = 1000;
                while (tries--) {
-                       if (value == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR))
+                       unsigned int lcr = p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR);
+                       if ((value & ~UART_LCR_SPAR) == (lcr & ~UART_LCR_SPAR))
                                return;
                        dw8250_force_idle(p);
                        writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));

@@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct uart_port

*p, int offset, int value)
        if (offset == UART_LCR) {
                int tries = 1000;
                while (tries--) {
-                       if (value == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR))
+                       unsigned int lcr = p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR);
+                       if ((value & ~UART_LCR_SPAR) == (lcr & ~UART_LCR_SPAR))
                                return;
                        dw8250_force_idle(p);
                        writel(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));


Would you mind posting this for proper review so we can get the fix in?

Thanks,
Tim Kryger