jumbled characters on serial port

[Jean-Denis Boyer]

> We begin getting messages on the tty, without any problem.
> We do insmod ...etc for the driver. Now during the testing some packts
> re passed (say 500.) suddenly the characters gets jumbled
> after printing

Maybe this has nothing to do with the binary data that is output.
Do you call "printk" from interrupt context?
If so, there is currently a known bug (but no fix yet) about characters
getting jumbled when using printk in interrupt context.

Look at that thread of discussion:
  http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-embedded/200303/threads3.html#00109
The subject is:
  Problem of concurrency in arch/ppc/8260_io/uart.c

As a work around, I would suggest to defer your traces to a kernel task (with schedule_task)... or to fix the bug! ;-) ...whichever is more appropriate.

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