6.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Stephan Gerhold stephan.gerhold@linaro.org
commit 7094832b5ac861b0bd7ed8866c93cb15ef619996 upstream.
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 --- drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- 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 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; }