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-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index c89ae4581378..6ee55a2d47bb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -201,8 +201,31 @@ static unsigned int dw8250_serial_in32be(struct uart_port *p, int offset)
static int dw8250_handle_irq(struct uart_port *p)
{
+ struct uart_8250_port *up = up_to_u8250p(p);
struct dw8250_data *d = p->private_data;
unsigned int iir = p->serial_in(p, UART_IIR);
+ unsigned int status;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ /*
+ * There are ways to get Designware-based UARTs into a state where
+ * they are asserting UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT but there is no actual
+ * data available. If we see such a case then we'll do a bogus
+ * read. If we don't do this then the "RX TIMEOUT" interrupt will
+ * fire forever.
+ *
+ * This problem has only been observed so far when not in DMA mode
+ * so we limit the workaround only to non-DMA mode.
+ */
+ if (!up->dma && ((iir & 0x3f) == UART_IIR_RX_TIMEOUT)) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&p->lock, flags);
+ status = p->serial_in(p, UART_LSR);
+
+ if (!(status & (UART_LSR_DR | UART_LSR_BI)))
+ (void) p->serial_in(p, UART_RX);
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->lock, flags);
+ }
if (serial8250_handle_irq(p, iir))
return 1;