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    serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: add PORT_ASPEED_VUART port type · a603ca60
    Zev Weiss authored
    Commit 54da3e38 ("serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: use UPF_IOREMAP to
    set up register mapping") fixed a bug that had, as a side-effect,
    prevented the 8250_aspeed_vuart driver from enabling the VUART's
    FIFOs.  However, fixing that (and hence enabling the FIFOs) has in
    turn revealed what appears to be a hardware bug in the ASPEED VUART in
    which the host-side THRE bit doesn't get if the BMC-side receive FIFO
    trigger level is set to anything but one byte.  This causes problems
    for polled-mode writes from the host -- for example, Linux kernel
    console writes proceed at a glacial pace (less than 100 bytes per
    second) because the write path waits for a 10ms timeout to expire
    after every character instead of being able to continue on to the next
    character upon seeing THRE asserted.  (GRUB behaves similarly.)
    
    As a workaround, introduce a new port type for the ASPEED VUART that's
    identical to PORT_16550A as it had previously been using, but with
    UART_FCR_R_TRIG_00 instead to set the receive FIFO trigger level to
    one byte, which (experimentally) seems to avoid the problematic THRE
    behavior.
    
    Fixes: 54da3e38 ("serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: use UPF_IOREMAP to set up register mapping")
    Tested-by: default avatarKonstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220211004203.14915-1-zev@bewilderbeest.netSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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