From 4516d50aabedbe5ae334155193e4d35c02390d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hurley Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:24:30 -0500 Subject: serial: 8250: Use canary to restart console after suspend When using no_console_suspend, the serial console may be powered off anyway during system sleep. Upon resume, the port may be in its default power-on state, but is expected to continue console i/o before the device has received its pm callback. The resultant garbage i/o can cause all kinds of havoc on the remote end. Use the scratch register as a canary to discover if the console has been powered-off. Write a non-zero value to the scratch register at port suspend and reprogram the port before any console i/o if the scratch register != canary before port resume. This workaround is disabled for omap_8250 (which uses different divisor programming). Credit to Doug Anderson for the idea of using the scratch register canary to discover port power-down. Cc: Doug Anderson Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/serial_8250.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/serial_8250.h') diff --git a/include/linux/serial_8250.h b/include/linux/serial_8250.h index 245b959f1ff6..a8efa235b7c1 100644 --- a/include/linux/serial_8250.h +++ b/include/linux/serial_8250.h @@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ struct uart_8250_port { unsigned char mcr_force; /* mask of forced bits */ unsigned char cur_iotype; /* Running I/O type */ unsigned int rpm_tx_active; + unsigned char canary; /* non-zero during system sleep + * if no_console_suspend + */ /* * Some bits in registers are cleared on a read, so they must -- cgit v1.2.1