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From:   Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 20:08:48 +0530
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Subject: serial: start_tx & buffer handling
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Hi All,

I=E2=80=99m trying to understand how user mode buffer is written to low lev=
el
serial hardware registers.

For this I read the kernel code and I came to know that from user mode
write() API lands into kernel=E2=80=99s tty_write() ("drivers/tty/tty_io.c"=
)
and then it calls a uart_write() ("drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c").

In uart_write(), the buffer is copied to circ_buf and then it calls
low level serial hardware driver=E2=80=99s start_tx() (struct uart_ops
.start_tx). But here I could not find how the buffer kept in circ_buf
is copied to serial port=E2=80=99s TX_FIFO registers?


Can someone take a moment to explain me on this?


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Thanks,
Sekhar