A side effect of 89d8232411a8 ("tty/serial: atmel_serial: BUG: stop DMA
from transmitting in stop_tx") is that the console can be called with
TX path disabled. Then the system would hang trying to push charecters
out in atmel_console_putchar().
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@microchip.com>
Fixes: 89d8232411a8 ("tty/serial: atmel_serial: BUG: stop DMA from transmitting
in stop_tx")
Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org> #4.4+
Acked-by: Richard Genoud <richard.gen...@gmail.com>
---
Hi,
I resend this patch removing the "RFC" tag and adding the Acked-by: Richard.
Best regards,
drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
index d9c05e05d896..2a03ad99d219 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -2486,6 +2486,9 @@ static void atmel_console_write(struct console *co, const
char *s, u_int count)
pdc_tx = atmel_uart_readl(port, ATMEL_PDC_PTSR) & ATMEL_PDC_TXTEN;
atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_PDC_PTCR, ATMEL_PDC_TXTDIS);
+ /* Make sure that tx path is actually able to send characters */
+ atmel_uart_writel(port, ATMEL_US_CR, ATMEL_US_TXEN);
+
uart_console_write(port, s, count, atmel_console_putchar);
/*
--
2.9.0
