Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751570AbaK1MJq (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:09:46 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:30647 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751423AbaK1MJo (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:09:44 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,476,1413270000"; d="scan'208";a="629632159" Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:09:29 +0200 From: Heikki Krogerus To: Loic Poulain Cc: Doug Anderson , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Heiko Stuebner , Jiri Slaby , Chris Zhong , linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Andrew Bresticker , mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, wens@csie.org, alan@linux.intel.com, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Handle no_console_suspend when uart loses state Message-ID: <20141128120929.GC28114@kuha.fi.intel.com> References: <1416011556-23422-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> <5469B828.90401@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5469B828.90401@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:56:08AM +0100, Loic Poulain wrote: > >In certain suspend modes on certain boards the 8250 UART may lose > >state when the device goes to suspend. If we're using > >no_console_suspend this can cause lots of problems during resume. > > > >Let's cache the basic UART config registers at suspend time and if we > >notice that the UART loses state (by looking at a canary stored in the > >scratch register) we'll restore it. > > If I'm not wrong, it's already done in acpi_lpss suspend/resume (for > 8250_dw). > Commit c78b0830667a7e7c1f0ca65b76b33166a84806b3. FYI, we are not saving any UART specific registers in acpi_lpss.c nor any other bus controller's registers that are part of the LPSS block. We are saving/restoring only the context of lpss specific register there. Cheers, -- heikki -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/