* Peter Hurley | 2014-07-17 11:31:59 [-0400]:

On 07/16/2014 12:06 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:54:56PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

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On 07/16/2014 05:16 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:

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I wonder if you should get_sync() on start_tx() and only
put_autosuspend() at stop_tx(). I guess the outcome would be
largely the same, no ?

I just opened minicom on ttyS0 and gave a try. start_tx() was invoked
each time I pressed a key (sent a character). I haven't seen stop_tx()
even after after I closed minicom. I guess stop_tx() is invoked if you
switch half-duplex communication.

that's bad, I expected stop to be called also after each character.

The 8250 core auto-stops tx when the tx ring buffer is empty (except
in the case of dma, where stopping tx isn't necessary).

This is correct. So this is what I have now for the non-dma case:

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
index 2e4a93b..480a1c0 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c

@@ -1283,6 +1283,9 @@ static inline void __stop_tx(struct uart_8250_port *p)
 	if (p->ier & UART_IER_THRI) {
 		p->ier &= ~UART_IER_THRI;
 		serial_out(p, UART_IER, p->ier);
+
+		pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(p->port.dev);
+		pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(p->port.dev);
 	}
 }
 

@@ -1310,12 +1313,12 @@ static void serial8250_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
 	struct uart_8250_port *up =
 		container_of(port, struct uart_8250_port, port);
 
-	pm_runtime_get_sync(port->dev);
 	if (up->dma && !serial8250_tx_dma(up)) {
 		goto out;
 	} else if (!(up->ier & UART_IER_THRI)) {
 		up->ier |= UART_IER_THRI;
+		pm_runtime_get_sync(port->dev);
 		serial_port_out(port, UART_IER, up->ier);
 
 		if (up->bugs & UART_BUG_TXEN) {
 			unsigned char lsr;

@@ -1500,9 +1503,10 @@ void serial8250_tx_chars(struct uart_8250_port *up)
 		uart_write_wakeup(port);
 
 	DEBUG_INTR("THRE...");
-
+#if 0
 	if (uart_circ_empty(xmit))
 		__stop_tx(up);
+#endif
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serial8250_tx_chars);
 

and now I need to come up with something that is not if (port != omap)
for that #if 0 block. The code disables the TX FIFO empty interrupt once
the transfer is complete. I want to call __stop_tx() once the tx fifo is
empty.
Felipe, Would a check for dev->power.use_autosuspend be the right thing
to do?

Regards,
Peter Hurley

Sebastian