Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2018 07:31:41 -0700 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: omap: Fix idling of clocks for unused uarts |
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* Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com> [180503 10:20]: > > > On Wednesday 02 May 2018 10:45 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > I noticed that unused UARTs won't necessarily idle properly always > > unless at least one byte tx transfer is done first. > > > > After some debugging I narrowed down the problem to the scr register > > dma configuration bits that need to be set before softreset for the > > clocks to idle. Unless we do this, the module clkctrl idlest bits > > may be set to 1 instead of 3 meaning the clock will never idle and > > is blocking deeper idle states for the whole domain. > > > > This might be related to the configuration done by the bootloader > > or kexec booting where certain configurations cause the 8250 or > > the clkctrl clock to jam in a way where setting of the scr bits > > and reset is needed to clear it. I've tried diffing the 8250 > > registers for the various modes, but did not see anything specific. > > So far I've only seen this on omap4 but I'm suspecting this might > > also happen on the other clkctrl using SoCs considering they > > already have a quirk enabled for UART_ERRATA_CLOCK_DISABLE. > > > > That's interesting! We do have AM437x suspend/resume working without > this workaround (UARTs on AM437x does not use DMA) and UART IPs clkctrl > do go to idle state. Seems like a OMAP4 specific issue.
Yeah seems to be omap4 specific. I did not see this yesterday on my am437x-idk or beagle-x15 after clearing status = "disabled" for all ports and idling them.
> Comment in omap8250_update_scr() warns not to set these two bits in a > single register write because this may lead to malfunction. I would > recommend to split this into two writes.
OK I'll split the write into two parts.
Regards,
Tony
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