kernel/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c, branch master

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

serial: pxa: Use uart_prepare_sysrq_char().

2024-03-02T21:06:21Z

The port lock is a spinlock_t which is becomes a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT. The driver splits the locking function into two parts: local_irq_save() and uart_port_lock() and this breaks PREEMPT_RT. Delay handling sysrq until port lock is dropped. Remove the special case in the console write routine an always use the complete locking function. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240301215246.891055-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: pxa: Use port lock wrappers

2023-09-18T09:18:13Z

When a serial port is used for kernel console output, then all modifications to the UART registers which are done from other contexts, e.g. getty, termios, are interference points for the kernel console. So far this has been ignored and the printk output is based on the principle of hope. The rework of the console infrastructure which aims to support threaded and atomic consoles, requires to mark sections which modify the UART registers as unsafe. This allows the atomic write function to make informed decisions and eventually to restore operational state. It also allows to prevent the regular UART code from modifying UART registers while printk output is in progress. All modifications of UART registers are guarded by the UART port lock, which provides an obvious synchronization point with the console infrastructure. To avoid adding this functionality to all UART drivers, wrap the spin_[un]lock*() invocations for uart_port::lock into helper functions which just contain the spin_[un]lock*() invocations for now. In a subsequent step these helpers will gain the console synchronization mechanisms. Converted with coccinelle. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Ogness Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914183831.587273-49-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: drivers: switch ch and flag to u8

2023-07-25T17:21:04Z

Now that the serial layer explicitly expects 'u8' for flags and characters, propagate this type to drivers' (RX) routines. Note that amba-pl011's, clps711x's and st-asc's 'ch' are left unchanged because 'ch' contains not only a character, but whole status. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) Cc: Tobias Klauser Cc: Russell King Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Richard Genoud Cc: Nicolas Ferre Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Claudiu Beznea Cc: Alexander Shiyan Cc: Baruch Siach Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Taichi Sugaya Cc: Takao Orito Cc: Shawn Guo Cc: Sascha Hauer Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team Cc: Fabio Estevam Cc: NXP Linux Team Cc: Kevin Cernekee Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Alim Akhtar Cc: Laxman Dewangan Cc: Thierry Reding Cc: Jonathan Hunter Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Orson Zhai Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Patrice Chotard Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Hammer Hsieh Acked-by: Richard GENOUD Acked-by: Tobias Klauser Acked-by: Thierry Reding Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712081811.29004-11-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: serial: use uart_port_tx_limited()

2022-11-03T02:32:40Z

uart_port_tx_limited() is a new helper to send characters to the device. Use it in these drivers. mux.c also needs to define tx_done(). But I'm not sure if the driver really wants to wait for all the characters to dismiss from the HW fifo at this code point. Hence I marked this as FIXME. Cc: Russell King Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com Cc: "Pali Rohár" Cc: Kevin Cernekee Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Orson Zhai Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Patrice Chotard Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221004104927.14361-4-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: Make ->set_termios() old ktermios const

2022-08-30T12:22:35Z

There should be no reason to adjust old ktermios which is going to get discarded anyway. Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816115739.10928-7-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: Consolidate BOTH_EMPTY use

2022-06-27T12:41:31Z

Per file BOTH_EMPTY defines are littering our source code here and there. Define once in serial.h and create helper for the check too. Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624205424.12686-7-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: make uart_console_write->putchar()'s character an unsigned char

2022-03-03T14:06:31Z

Currently, uart_console_write->putchar's second parameter (the character) is of type int. It makes little sense, provided uart_console_write() accepts the input string as "const char *s" and passes its content -- the characters -- to putchar(). So switch the character's type to unsigned char. We don't use char as that is signed on some platforms. That would cause troubles for drivers which (implicitly) cast the char to u16 when writing to the device. Sign extension would happen in that case and the value written would be completely different to the provided char. DZ is an example of such a driver -- on MIPS, it uses u16 for dz_out in dz_console_putchar(). Note we do the char -> uchar conversion implicitly in uart_console_write(). Provided we do not change size of the data type, sign extension does not happen there, so the problem is void. This makes the types consistent and unified with the rest of the uart layer, which uses unsigned char in most places already. One exception is xmit_buf, but that is going to be converted later. Cc: Paul Cercueil Cc: Tobias Klauser Cc: Russell King Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Nicolas Ferre Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Ludovic Desroches Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com Cc: Alexander Shiyan Cc: Baruch Siach Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Shawn Guo Cc: Sascha Hauer Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team Cc: Fabio Estevam Cc: NXP Linux Team Cc: Karol Gugala Cc: Mateusz Holenko Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy Cc: Neil Armstrong Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Jerome Brunet Cc: Martin Blumenstingl Cc: Taichi Sugaya Cc: Takao Orito Cc: Liviu Dudau Cc: Sudeep Holla Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: "Andreas Färber" Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Andy Gross Cc: Bjorn Andersson Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Orson Zhai Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Patrice Chotard Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Peter Korsgaard Cc: Michal Simek Acked-by: Richard Genoud [atmel_serial] Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König Acked-by: Paul Cercueil Acked-by: Neil Armstrong # meson_serial Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220303080831.21783-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: serial: make use of UART_LCR_WLEN() + tty_get_char_size()

2022-02-28T20:49:06Z

Having a generic UART_LCR_WLEN() macro and the tty_get_char_size() helper, we can remove all those repeated switch-cases in drivers. Cc: Laxman Dewangan Cc: Thierry Reding Cc: Jonathan Hunter Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224095558.30929-2-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman