[PATCH 2/2 v2] dma: ipu_idmac: do not lose valid received data in the irq handler

Markus Niebel list-09_linux_media at tqsc.de
Fri Feb 4 06:37:19 EST 2011


Hello Guennadi,

sorry, forget to explicitly write it in my mail, I also applied the
patch in question:

dma: ipu_idmac: do not lose valid received data in the irq handler

Will try the other way round without the patch later ...

Thanks
Markus

Am 04.02.2011 10:37, schrieb Guennadi Liakhovetski:
> Hi Markus
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Markus Niebel wrote:
>
>> Hello Guennadi, hello Anatolij
>>
>> I've tried that with my setup:
>>
>> Hardware: i.MX35, special CCD camera over FPGA
>> Kernel: 2.6.34
>>
>> patch v4l: soc-camera: start stream after queueing the buffers is applied and
>> our camera driver handles streamon / streamoff so that no sync signal / clock
>> is provided, when not streaming.
>>
>> Our setup works with 4 buffers
>>
>> What we see is as we would expect plus no difference with 1st buffer:
>
> But you haven't applied the patch, that my reply was actually referring to
> - the change to ipu_idmac.c? I think, that's the one, killing the
> double-buffering. But thanks for testing the streamon patch too!
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
>
>>
>> [  206.770000] i5ccdhb i5ccdhb.0: soc_i5ccdhb_s_stream - enable 1
>> [  207.350000] i5ccdhb i5ccdhb.0: i5ccdhb_streamon: fps (29.412)
>> [  207.370000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  207.410000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  207.440000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  207.470000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  207.540000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  207.580000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  207.610000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  207.650000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  207.680000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  207.710000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  207.750000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  207.780000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> ...
>> [  241.370000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  241.410000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  241.440000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  241.470000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  241.510000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  241.540000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  241.580000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>> [  241.610000] idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>> [  257.190000] i5ccdhb i5ccdhb.0: soc_i5ccdhb_s_stream - enable 0
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 03.02.2011 11:09, schrieb Guennadi Liakhovetski:
>>> Hi Anatolij
>>>
>>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm afraid there seems to be a problem with your patch. I have no idea
>>> what is causing it, but I'm just observing some wrong behaviour, that is
>>> not there without it. Namely, I added a debug print to the IDMAC interrupt
>>> handler
>>>
>>>    	curbuf	= idmac_read_ipureg(&ipu_data, IPU_CHA_CUR_BUF);
>>>    	err	= idmac_read_ipureg(&ipu_data, IPU_INT_STAT_4);
>>>
>>> +	printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(): IDMAC irq %d, buf %d, current %d\n",
>>> __func__,
>>> +	       irq, ichan->active_buffer, (curbuf>>   chan_id)&   1);
>>>
>>>    	if (err&   (1<<   chan_id)) {
>>>    		idmac_write_ipureg(&ipu_data, 1<<   chan_id, IPU_INT_STAT_4);
>>>
>>> and without your patch I see buffer numbers correctly toggling all the
>>> time like
>>>
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 1
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 1
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 1
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Yes, the first interrupt is different, that's where I'm dropping /
>>> postponing it. With your patch only N (equal to the number of buffers
>>> used, I think) first interrupts toggle, then always only one buffer is
>>> used:
>>>
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 1, current 1
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> idmac_interrupt(): IDMAC irq 177, buf 0, current 0
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Verified with both capture.c and mplayer. Could you, please, verify
>>> whether you get the same behaviour and what the problem could be?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Guennadi
>>>
>>>> Currently when two or more buffers are queued by the camera driver
>>>> and so the double buffering is enabled in the idmac, we lose one
>>>> frame comming from CSI since the reporting of arrival of the first
>>>> frame is deferred by the DMAIC_7_EOF interrupt handler and reporting
>>>> of the arrival of the last frame is not done at all. So when requesting
>>>> N frames from the image sensor we actually receive N - 1 frames in
>>>> user space.
>>>>
>>>> The reason for this behaviour is that the DMAIC_7_EOF interrupt
>>>> handler misleadingly assumes that the CUR_BUF flag is pointing to the
>>>> buffer used by the IDMAC. Actually it is not the case since the
>>>> CUR_BUF flag will be flipped by the FSU when the FSU is sending the
>>>> <TASK>_NEW_FRM_RDY signal when new frame data is delivered by the CSI.
>>>> When sending this singal, FSU updates the DMA_CUR_BUF and the
>>>> DMA_BUFx_RDY flags: the DMA_CUR_BUF is flipped, the DMA_BUFx_RDY
>>>> is cleared, indicating that the frame data is beeing written by
>>>> the IDMAC to the pointed buffer. DMA_BUFx_RDY is supposed to be
>>>> set to the ready state again by the MCU, when it has handled the
>>>> received data. DMAIC_7_CUR_BUF flag won't be flipped here by the
>>>> IPU, so waiting for this event in the EOF interrupt handler is wrong.
>>>> Actually there is no spurious interrupt as described in the comments,
>>>> this is the valid DMAIC_7_EOF interrupt indicating reception of the
>>>> frame from CSI.
>>>>
>>>> The patch removes code that waits for flipping of the DMAIC_7_CUR_BUF
>>>> flag in the DMAIC_7_EOF interrupt handler. As the comment in the
>>>> current code denotes, this waiting doesn't help anyway. As a result
>>>> of this removal the reporting of the first arrived frame is not
>>>> deferred to the time of arrival of the next frame and the drivers
>>>> software flag 'ichan->active_buffer' is in sync with DMAIC_7_CUR_BUF
>>>> flag, so the reception of all requested frames works.
>>>>
>>>> This has been verified on the hardware which is triggering the
>>>> image sensor by the programmable state machine, allowing to
>>>> obtain exact number of frames. On this hardware we do not tolerate
>>>> losing frames.
>>>>
>>>> This patch also removes resetting the DMA_BUFx_RDY flags of
>>>> all channels in ipu_disable_channel() since transfers on other
>>>> DMA channels might be triggered by other running tasks and the
>>>> buffers should always be ready for data sending or reception.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin<agust at denx.de>
>>>> ---
>>>> v2:
>>>>       Revise the commit message to provide more and correct
>>>>       information about the observed problem and proposed fix
>>>>
>>>>    drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c |   50
>>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>>    1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c b/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c
>>>> index cb26ee9..c1a125e 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c
>>>> @@ -1145,29 +1145,6 @@ static int ipu_disable_channel(struct idmac *idmac,
>>>> struct idmac_channel *ichan,
>>>>    	reg = idmac_read_icreg(ipu, IDMAC_CHA_EN);
>>>>    	idmac_write_icreg(ipu, reg&   ~chan_mask, IDMAC_CHA_EN);
>>>>
>>>> -	/*
>>>> -	 * Problem (observed with channel DMAIC_7): after enabling the channel
>>>> -	 * and initialising buffers, there comes an interrupt with current
>>>> still
>>>> -	 * pointing at buffer 0, whereas it should use buffer 0 first and only
>>>> -	 * generate an interrupt when it is done, then current should already
>>>> -	 * point to buffer 1. This spurious interrupt also comes on channel
>>>> -	 * DMASDC_0. With DMAIC_7 normally, is we just leave the ISR after the
>>>> -	 * first interrupt, there comes the second with current correctly
>>>> -	 * pointing to buffer 1 this time. But sometimes this second interrupt
>>>> -	 * doesn't come and the channel hangs. Clearing BUFx_RDY when
>>>> disabling
>>>> -	 * the channel seems to prevent the channel from hanging, but it
>>>> doesn't
>>>> -	 * prevent the spurious interrupt. This might also be unsafe. Think
>>>> -	 * about the IDMAC controller trying to switch to a buffer, when we
>>>> -	 * clear the ready bit, and re-enable it a moment later.
>>>> -	 */
>>>> -	reg = idmac_read_ipureg(ipu, IPU_CHA_BUF0_RDY);
>>>> -	idmac_write_ipureg(ipu, 0, IPU_CHA_BUF0_RDY);
>>>> -	idmac_write_ipureg(ipu, reg&   ~(1UL<<   channel), IPU_CHA_BUF0_RDY);
>>>> -
>>>> -	reg = idmac_read_ipureg(ipu, IPU_CHA_BUF1_RDY);
>>>> -	idmac_write_ipureg(ipu, 0, IPU_CHA_BUF1_RDY);
>>>> -	idmac_write_ipureg(ipu, reg&   ~(1UL<<   channel), IPU_CHA_BUF1_RDY);
>>>> -
>>>>    	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipu->lock, flags);
>>>>
>>>>    	return 0;
>>>> @@ -1246,33 +1223,6 @@ static irqreturn_t idmac_interrupt(int irq, void
>>>> *dev_id)
>>>>
>>>>    	/* Other interrupts do not interfere with this channel */
>>>>    	spin_lock(&ichan->lock);
>>>> -	if (unlikely(chan_id != IDMAC_SDC_0&&   chan_id != IDMAC_SDC_1&&
>>>> -		     ((curbuf>>   chan_id)&   1) == ichan->active_buffer&&
>>>> -		     !list_is_last(ichan->queue.next,&ichan->queue))) {
>>>> -		int i = 100;
>>>> -
>>>> -		/* This doesn't help. See comment in ipu_disable_channel() */
>>>> -		while (--i) {
>>>> -			curbuf = idmac_read_ipureg(&ipu_data,
>>>> IPU_CHA_CUR_BUF);
>>>> -			if (((curbuf>>   chan_id)&   1) != ichan->active_buffer)
>>>> -				break;
>>>> -			cpu_relax();
>>>> -		}
>>>> -
>>>> -		if (!i) {
>>>> -			spin_unlock(&ichan->lock);
>>>> -			dev_dbg(dev,
>>>> -				"IRQ on active buffer on channel %x, active "
>>>> -				"%d, ready %x, %x, current %x!\n", chan_id,
>>>> -				ichan->active_buffer, ready0, ready1, curbuf);
>>>> -			return IRQ_NONE;
>>>> -		} else
>>>> -			dev_dbg(dev,
>>>> -				"Buffer deactivated on channel %x, active "
>>>> -				"%d, ready %x, %x, current %x, rest %d!\n",
>>>> chan_id,
>>>> -				ichan->active_buffer, ready0, ready1, curbuf,
>>>> i);
>>>> -	}
>>>> -
>>>>    	if (unlikely((ichan->active_buffer&&   (ready1>>   chan_id)&   1) ||
>>>>    		     (!ichan->active_buffer&&   (ready0>>   chan_id)&   1)
>>>>    		     )) {
>>>> --
>>>> 1.7.1
>>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
>>> Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
>>> http://www.open-technology.de/
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>
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