serial: mvebu-uart: fix tx lost characters

Fixes missing characters on kernel console at low baud rates (i.e.9600).
The driver should poll TX_RDY or TX_FIFO_EMP instead of TX_EMP to ensure
that the transmitter holding register (THR) is ready to receive a new byte.

TX_EMP tells us when it is possible to send a break sequence via
SND_BRK_SEQ. While this also indicates that both the THR and the TSR are
empty, it does not guarantee that a new byte can be written just yet.

Fixes: 30530791a7a0 ("serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port")
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Matni <gabriel.matni@exfo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
index a4176afb9404fde3cc2e3adcced4e705408ca9d9..750e5645dc857c7ba63bd0a848e9f6055fac988c 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_port *port)
        u32 val;
 
        readl_poll_timeout_atomic(port->membase + UART_STAT, val,
-                                 (val & STAT_TX_EMP), 1, 10000);
+                                 (val & STAT_TX_RDY(port)), 1, 10000);
 }
 
 static void mvebu_uart_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch)