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Commit c6693e6e authored by Jiri Slaby's avatar Jiri Slaby Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mxser: don't throttle manually



First, checking tty->receive_room to signalize whether there is enough space
in the tty buffers does not make much sense. Provided the tty buffers
are in tty_port and those are not checked at all.

Second, if the rx path is throttled, with CRTSCTS, RTS is deasserted,
but is never asserted again. This leads to port "lockup", not accepting
any more input.

So:
1) stty -F /dev/ttyMI0 crtscts # the mxser port
2) stty -F /dev/ttyS6 crtscts # the connected port
3) cat /dev/ttyMI0
4) "write in a loop" to /dev/ttyS6
5) cat from 3) produces the bytes from 4)
6) killall -STOP cat (the 3)'s one)
7) wait for RTS to drop on /dev/ttyMI0
8) killall -CONT cat (again the 3)'s one)

cat erroneously produces no more output now (i.e. no data sent from
ttyS6 to ttyMI can be seen).

Note that the step 7) is performed twice: once from n_tty by
tty_throttle_safe(), once by mxser_stoprx() from the receive path. Then
after step 7), n_tty correctly unthrottles the input, but mxser calls
mxser_stoprx() again as there is still only a little space in n_tty
buffers (tty->receive_room mentioned at the beginning), but the device's
FIFO is/can be already filled.

After this patch, the output is correctly resumed, i.e. n_tty both
throttles and unthrottles without interfering with mxser's attempts.

This allows us to get rid of the non-standard ldisc_stop_rx flag from
struct mxser_port.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211118073125.12283-15-jslaby@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 49b798a6
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