[PATCH] pwm: i.MX: Avoid sample fifo overflow for i.MX pwm version2

[Lothar Waßmann]

Hi,

Liu Ying wrote:
> The i.MX pwm version2 is embedded in several i.MX SoCs, such
> as i.MX27, i.MX51 and i.MX6SL.  There are four 16bit sample
> fifos in this IP, each of which determines the duty period
> of a PWM waveform in one full cycle.  The IP spec mentions
> that we should not write a fourth sample because the fifo
> will become full and trigger a fifo write error(FWE) which
> will prevent the PWM from starting once it is enabled.  In
> order to avoid any sample fifo overflow issue, this patch
> does software reset to clear all the sample fifos in the
> very beginning of the pwm configuration function.
> 
> The fifo overflow issue can be reproduced by the following
> commands on the i.MX6SL evk platform, assuming we use pwm2
> for the debug LED which is driven by the pin HSIC_STROBE
> and the maximal brightness is 255.
> echo 0   > /sys/class/leds/user/brightness
> echo 0   > /sys/class/leds/user/brightness
> echo 0   > /sys/class/leds/user/brightness
> echo 0   > /sys/class/leds/user/brightness
> echo 255 > /sys/class/leds/user/brightness
> Here, FWE happens(PWMSR register reads 0x58) and the LED
> can not be lighten.
> 
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
> Cc: linux-pwm at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Liu Ying <Ying.Liu at freescale.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-imx.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-imx.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-imx.c
> index cc47733..efdce53 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-imx.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
>  #define MX3_PWMCR_DBGEN			(1 << 22)
>  #define MX3_PWMCR_CLKSRC_IPG_HIGH (2 << 16)
>  #define MX3_PWMCR_CLKSRC_IPG      (1 << 16)
> +#define MX3_PWMCR_SWR		  (1 << 3)
>  #define MX3_PWMCR_EN              (1 << 0)
>  
>  struct imx_chip {
> @@ -107,6 +108,12 @@ static int imx_pwm_config_v2(struct pwm_chip *chip,
>  	unsigned long period_cycles, duty_cycles, prescale;
>  	u32 cr;
>  
> +	/* do software reset in case fifo overflows */
> +	writel(MX3_PWMCR_SWR, imx->mmio_base + MX3_PWMCR);
> +	do {
> +		cr = readl(imx->mmio_base + MX3_PWMCR);
> +	} while (cr & MX3_PWMCR_SWR);
> +
>
An endless loop polling a hardware bit is ALWAYS a bad idea!


Lothar Waßmann
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