[PATCH 1/2] serial/imx: add DMA support

Richard Zhao richard.zhao at freescale.com
Fri Apr 27 04:38:22 EDT 2012


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:22:45AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 03:00:39PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > 于 2012年04月26日 19:11, Russell King - ARM Linux 写道:
> >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:37:11PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> >>> Add the DMA support for uart RX and TX.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie<b32955 at freescale.com>
> >>> ---
> >> Apart from the comments below,
> >>
> >> 1. How do you deal with transmitting the high-priority XON/XOFF
> >>     characters (port->x_char) which occur with s/w flow control and
> >>     the tty buffers fill up?
> >> 2. How do you deal with flow control in general?  IOW, what happens
> >>     when the remote end deasserts your CTS with h/w flow control enabled.
> >>     How does your end deal with sending RTS according to flow control
> >>     conditions?
> >>
> >> i
> > The UART uses the DMA for RX/TX with the hardware flow control (RTS/CTS)  
> > enabled all the time.
> 
> Your answer is too vague.  Please try again.
> 
> > If we use the software flow control(XON/XOFF), we should not enable the DMA.
> > I think i should add more comments about this issue.
> >
> > For example:
> > The MX6Q arm2 has two uarts, one with the DMA disabled is used for debug,
> > the other one with the DMA/RTS.CTS enabled can be used for the Bluetooth.
> >>>   .../bindings/tty/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt           |    7 +
> >>>   drivers/tty/serial/imx.c                           |  386 +++++++++++++++++++-
> >>>   2 files changed, 389 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt
> >>> index a9c0406..f27489d 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt
> >>> @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Required properties:
> >>>   Optional properties:
> >>>   - fsl,uart-has-rtscts : Indicate the uart has rts and cts
> >>>   - fsl,irda-mode : Indicate the uart supports irda mode
> >>> +- fsl,enable-dma : Indicate the uart supports DMA
> >>> +- fsl,uart-dma-events : contains the DMA events for RX and TX,
> >>> +	          The first is the RX event, while the other is TX.
> >>> +- fsl,enable-dte: Indicate the uart works in DTE mode
> >>>
> >>>   Example:
> >>>
> >>> @@ -16,4 +20,7 @@ uart at 73fbc000 {
> >>>   	reg =<0x73fbc000 0x4000>;
> >>>   	interrupts =<31>;
> >>>   	fsl,uart-has-rtscts;
> >>> +	fsl,enable-dma;
> >>> +	fsl,uart-dma-events =<xx xx>;
> >>> +	fsl,enable-dte;
> >>>   };
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> >>> index e7fecee..65ba24d 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> >>> @@ -47,9 +47,11 @@
> >>>   #include<linux/slab.h>
> >>>   #include<linux/of.h>
> >>>   #include<linux/of_device.h>
> >>> +#include<linux/dma-mapping.h>
> >>>
> >>>   #include<asm/io.h>
> >>>   #include<asm/irq.h>
> >>> +#include<mach/dma.h>
> >>>   #include<mach/imx-uart.h>
> >>>
> >>>   /* Register definitions */
> >>> @@ -82,6 +84,7 @@
> >>>   #define  UCR1_ADBR       (1<<14) /* Auto detect baud rate */
> >>>   #define  UCR1_TRDYEN     (1<<13) /* Transmitter ready interrupt enable */
> >>>   #define  UCR1_IDEN       (1<<12) /* Idle condition interrupt */
> >>> +#define  UCR1_ICD_REG(x) (((x)&  3)<<  10) /* idle condition detect */
> >>>   #define  UCR1_RRDYEN     (1<<9)	 /* Recv ready interrupt enable */
> >>>   #define  UCR1_RDMAEN     (1<<8)	 /* Recv ready DMA enable */
> >>>   #define  UCR1_IREN       (1<<7)	 /* Infrared interface enable */
> >>> @@ -125,6 +128,7 @@
> >>>   #define  UCR4_ENIRI 	 (1<<8)  /* Serial infrared interrupt enable */
> >>>   #define  UCR4_WKEN  	 (1<<7)  /* Wake interrupt enable */
> >>>   #define  UCR4_REF16 	 (1<<6)  /* Ref freq 16 MHz */
> >>> +#define  UCR4_IDDMAEN    (1<<6)  /* DMA IDLE Condition Detected */
> >>>   #define  UCR4_IRSC  	 (1<<5)  /* IR special case */
> >>>   #define  UCR4_TCEN  	 (1<<3)  /* Transmit complete interrupt enable */
> >>>   #define  UCR4_BKEN  	 (1<<2)  /* Break condition interrupt enable */
> >>> @@ -134,6 +138,7 @@
> >>>   #define  UFCR_RFDIV      (7<<7)  /* Reference freq divider mask */
> >>>   #define  UFCR_RFDIV_REG(x)	(((x)<  7 ? 6 - (x) : 6)<<  7)
> >>>   #define  UFCR_TXTL_SHF   10      /* Transmitter trigger level shift */
> >>> +#define  UFCR_DCEDTE	 (1<<6)
> >>>   #define  USR1_PARITYERR  (1<<15) /* Parity error interrupt flag */
> >>>   #define  USR1_RTSS  	 (1<<14) /* RTS pin status */
> >>>   #define  USR1_TRDY  	 (1<<13) /* Transmitter ready interrupt/dma flag */
> >>> @@ -200,12 +205,27 @@ struct imx_port {
> >>>   	unsigned int		old_status;
> >>>   	int			txirq,rxirq,rtsirq;
> >>>   	unsigned int		have_rtscts:1;
> >>> +	unsigned int		enable_dte:1;
> >>> +	unsigned int		enable_dma:1;
> >>>   	unsigned int		use_irda:1;
> >>>   	unsigned int		irda_inv_rx:1;
> >>>   	unsigned int		irda_inv_tx:1;
> >>>   	unsigned short		trcv_delay; /* transceiver delay */
> >>>   	struct clk		*clk;
> >>>   	struct imx_uart_data	*devdata;
> >>> +
> >>> +	/* DMA fields */
> >>> +	unsigned int		dma_req_rx;
> >>> +	unsigned int		dma_req_tx;
> >>> +	struct imx_dma_data	dma_data;
> >>> +	struct dma_chan		*dma_chan_rx, *dma_chan_tx;
> >>> +	struct scatterlist	rx_sgl, tx_sgl[2];
> >>> +	void			*rx_buf;
> >>> +	unsigned int		rx_bytes, tx_bytes;
> >>> +	struct work_struct	tsk_dma_rx, tsk_dma_tx;
> >> Why do you need a work struct to deal with DMA?
> >>
> > The uart uses the SDMA (drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c). And the SDMA may  
> > schedule out in :
> > sdma_prep_slave_sg() --> sdma_load_contex() -->sdma_run_channel() .
> 
> It should not.  prep_slave_sg() must be callable from atomic contexts.
I just sent out a patch to fix it. 
[PATCH 01/11] dma: imx-sdma: make channel0 operations atomic

Thanks
Richard
> 
> > This callback is called from IRQ context, with all the IRQ disabled. see:
> > sdma_int_handler() -->mxc_sdma_handle_channel() -->  
> > mxc_sdma_handle_channel_normal()
> > --> .callback().
> 
> That's a bug in your dmaengine driver.
> 




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