[PATCH 46/49] serial/imx: check that the buffer is non-empty before sending it out

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 14:33:37 EST


From: Volker Ernst <volker.ernst@xxxxxxxx>

The .start_tx callback (imx_start_tx here) isn't only called when the
buffer is non-empty. E.g. after resume or when handshaking is enabled
and the other side starts to signal being ready.

So check for an empty puffer already before sending the first character.
This prevents sending out stale (or uninitialised) data.

Signed-off-by: Volker Ernst <volker.ernst@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ukl: reword commit log, put check in while condition]
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/serial/imx.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/serial/imx.c b/drivers/serial/imx.c
index 66ecc7a..dfcf4b1 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/imx.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/imx.c
@@ -327,14 +327,13 @@ static inline void imx_transmit_buffer(struct imx_port *sport)
{
struct circ_buf *xmit = &sport->port.state->xmit;

- while (!(readl(sport->port.membase + UTS) & UTS_TXFULL)) {
+ while (!uart_circ_empty(xmit) &&
+ !(readl(sport->port.membase + UTS) & UTS_TXFULL)) {
/* send xmit->buf[xmit->tail]
* out the port here */
writel(xmit->buf[xmit->tail], sport->port.membase + URTX0);
xmit->tail = (xmit->tail + 1) & (UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
sport->port.icount.tx++;
- if (uart_circ_empty(xmit))
- break;
}

if (uart_circ_chars_pending(xmit) < WAKEUP_CHARS)
--
1.7.2

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