The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 7094832b5ac861b0bd7ed8866c93cb15ef619996 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025042956-parkway-commend-a62f@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 7094832b5ac861b0bd7ed8866c93cb15ef619996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Gerhold stephan.gerhold@linaro.org Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 19:22:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] serial: msm: Configure correct working mode before starting earlycon
The MSM UART DM controller supports different working modes, e.g. DMA or the "single-character mode", where all reads/writes operate on a single character rather than 4 chars (32-bit) at once. When using earlycon, __msm_console_write() always writes 4 characters at a time, but we don't know which mode the bootloader was using and we don't set the mode either.
This causes garbled output if the bootloader was using the single-character mode, because only every 4th character appears in the serial console, e.g.
"[ 00oni pi 000xf0[ 00i s 5rm9(l)l s 1 1 SPMTA 7:C 5[ 00A ade k d[ 00ano:ameoi .Q1B[ 00ac _idaM00080oo'"
If the bootloader was using the DMA ("DM") mode, output would likely fail entirely. Later, when the full serial driver probes, the port is re-initialized and output works as expected.
Fix this also for earlycon by clearing the DMEN register and reset+re-enable the transmitter to apply the change. This ensures the transmitter is in the expected state before writing any output.
Cc: stable stable@kernel.org Fixes: 0efe72963409 ("tty: serial: msm: Add earlycon support") Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold stephan.gerhold@linaro.org Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong neil.armstrong@linaro.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408-msm-serial-earlycon-v1-1-429080127530@lin... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c index 1b137e068444..3449945493ce 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -1746,6 +1746,12 @@ msm_serial_early_console_setup_dm(struct earlycon_device *device, if (!device->port.membase) return -ENODEV;
+ /* Disable DM / single-character modes */ + msm_write(&device->port, 0, UARTDM_DMEN); + msm_write(&device->port, MSM_UART_CR_CMD_RESET_RX, MSM_UART_CR); + msm_write(&device->port, MSM_UART_CR_CMD_RESET_TX, MSM_UART_CR); + msm_write(&device->port, MSM_UART_CR_TX_ENABLE, MSM_UART_CR); + device->con->write = msm_serial_early_write_dm; return 0; }