Re: [PATCH] Revert "serial: 8250: Don't touch RTS modem control while in rs485 mode"
From: Su Bao Cheng <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-12 06:30:10
On 2021/10/27 下午7:39, Lukas Wunner wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 07:16:44PM +0800, Su Bao Cheng wrote:quoted
This reverts commit f45709df7731ad36306a28a3e1af7309d55c35f5. The `serial8250_do_set_mctrl` not only used by userspace ioctl but also the kernel itself. During tty_open, the uart_port_startup sets the MCR to 0, and then use set_mctrl to restore the MCR, so at this time, the MCR read does not reflect the desired value.I don't quite follow. Where is uart_port_startup() setting the MCR to 0? Are you referring to the call to uart_port_dtr_rts()? That function should set RTS correctly according to RS485 state, so I don't see where any breakage may occur. What is the user-visible issue that you seek to fix with the revert?
Sorry for the late response, the company exchange server does not work for me at this moment, so I have to use the private email instead. The issue is observed on omap8250 hardware (CPU: AM6548). the use case is RS485 half-duplex (2 wire mode), in this mode the RTS pin is used to control the direction and is software controller via the MCR[1] register. The problem is that the RS485 transmitting is OK, but the receiving is not working. Similar issue also exists for the RS422, i.e. the 4-wire full-duplex mode of RS485, but this time the TX does not work, RX is fine. The MCR is set to 0 at this line within uart_port_startup(): retval = uport->ops->startup(uport); On omap8250, the startup() points to omap_8250_startup(), within it: up->mcr = 0; For software controlled RTS pin of RS485 half-duplex, when not in the transmitting, the MCR[1] should be constant to indicate the current direction is receiving. This is set in serial8250_em485_stop_tx(). So after this point of setting the MCR to 0, this up->mcr register mirror does not reflect the actual desired value anymore. Further checking against it leads to false result. Another possible fix could be, instead of setting the mcr to 0 blindly, one could check if the current operating mode is RS485 half-duplex, and if so, mask the MCR[1], so that this bit is not changed. Because the MCR[1] will be changed to the correct value before TX in serial8250_em485_start_tx(), this change would not impact the transmitting.
Thanks, Lukasquoted
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c index 66374704747e..40736e460956 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c@@ -2024,13 +2024,6 @@ void serial8250_do_set_mctrl(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int mctrl) struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(port); unsigned char mcr; - if (port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED) { - if (serial8250_in_MCR(up) & UART_MCR_RTS) - mctrl |= TIOCM_RTS; - else - mctrl &= ~TIOCM_RTS; - } - mcr = serial8250_TIOCM_to_MCR(mctrl); mcr = (mcr & up->mcr_mask) | up->mcr_force | up->mcr;-- 2.25.1