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From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 14:27:09 +0200
Subject: RHEL-only: hw/char/pl011: fix SBSA reset

RH-Author: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-id: <1470061629-6395-1-git-send-email-drjones@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 71697
O-Subject: [AArch64 RHEL-7.3 qemu-kvm-rhev PATCH] RHEL-only: hw/char/pl011: fix SBSA reset
Bugzilla: 1266048
RH-Acked-by: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>

When booting Linux with an SBSA UART, e.g. when booting mach-virt
with ACPI, if the user types on the console during boot, then when
the login prompt appears she won't be able to log in. This is
because during boot the SBSA UART needs to be reset, but the SBSA
specification doesn't provide registers to enable/disable the FIFOs.
This patch observes a couple registers the SBSA UART does write to
in order to attempt to guess when a reset is needed, and then do it.
We risk losing some characters from the FIFO if the guess is wrong,
but the risk of that should be quite low.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit aa0041f7036b3052ec9477bffae2fd6f41ac7ede)
(cherry picked from commit 4fed0775a0a86b05fb5539aca43d5ee70fc0ab99)
---
 hw/char/pl011.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/char/pl011.c b/hw/char/pl011.c
index 24ea973..453fcde 100644
--- a/hw/char/pl011.c
+++ b/hw/char/pl011.c
@@ -209,6 +209,18 @@ static void pl011_write(void *opaque, hwaddr offset,
         pl011_update(s);
         break;
     case 17: /* UARTICR */
+        /*
+         * RHEL-only, fixes BZ1266048
+         *
+         * Look for the "signature" of a driver init or shutdown in
+         * order to know that we need to reset the SBSA UART. Yes,
+         * this is hacky, but as SBSA drivers aren't required to write
+         * UARTLCR_H or UARTCR, then we don't have much choice...
+         */
+        if (s->int_enabled == 0 && value == 0xffff) {
+            s->read_count = 0;
+            s->read_pos = 0;
+        }
         s->int_level &= ~value;
         pl011_update(s);
         break;
-- 
1.8.3.1