A SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS configuration option has been recently defined that lets one request the 8250 driver not to probe for 16550A device features so as to reduce the driver's device startup time in virtual machines.
Some actual hardware devices require these features to have been fully determined however for their driver to work correctly, so define a flag to let drivers request full 16550A feature probing on a device-by-device basis if required regardless of the SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS option setting chosen.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk Reported-by: Anders Blomdell anders.blomdell@control.lth.se Fixes: dc56ecb81a0a ("serial: 8250: Support disabling mdelay-filled probes of 16550A variants") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.6+ --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 3 ++- include/linux/serial_core.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
linux-serial-8250-full-probe.diff Index: linux-macro/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c =================================================================== --- linux-macro.orig/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c +++ linux-macro/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c @@ -1021,7 +1021,8 @@ static void autoconfig_16550a(struct uar up->port.type = PORT_16550A; up->capabilities |= UART_CAP_FIFO;
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS)) + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS) && + !(up->port.flags & UPF_FULL_PROBE)) return;
/* Index: linux-macro/include/linux/serial_core.h =================================================================== --- linux-macro.orig/include/linux/serial_core.h +++ linux-macro/include/linux/serial_core.h @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ struct uart_icount { __u32 buf_overrun; };
-typedef unsigned int __bitwise upf_t; +typedef __u64 __bitwise upf_t; typedef unsigned int __bitwise upstat_t;
struct uart_port { @@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ struct uart_port { #define UPF_FIXED_PORT ((__force upf_t) (1 << 29)) #define UPF_DEAD ((__force upf_t) (1 << 30)) #define UPF_IOREMAP ((__force upf_t) (1 << 31)) +#define UPF_FULL_PROBE ((__force upf_t) (1ULL << 32))
#define __UPF_CHANGE_MASK 0x17fff #define UPF_CHANGE_MASK ((__force upf_t) __UPF_CHANGE_MASK)