[PATCH 6/6] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Jul 10 23:41:51 PDT 2014


* Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de> [140710 08:50]:
> On 07/10/2014 09:09 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > You can test this pretty easily on beagleboard xm for example
> > using v3.16-r4:
> 
> I tried this with am335x-evm, dra7-evm and beaglebone (omap5-uevm and
> am335x-evmsk didn't want to boot a kernel and omap4-blaze didn't even
> want to show MLO/U-boot) with the same result.

None of these SoCs support off-idle with mainline kernel so testing
with those is not enough :) Best to use some omap3 based device for
testing this.

So far I have verified that beagleboard xm, n900, and omap3730-evm
all hit off-idle with v3.16-rc4.
 
> > 1. Compile the kernel using omap2plus_defconfig and enable your
> >    driver. USB EHCI needs to be disabled and OTG port should
> >    not have a USB cable connected.
> 
> EHCI was already disabled in the config. OTG was not connected.

OK
 
> > 2. Boot with init=/bin/sh to keep user space timers to minimum
> >    at least until you have verified to hit off-idle
> 
> I had network up and configured. Was that okay? I also tried
> "ifconfig eth0 down; sleep 10; ifconfig eth0 up" to see if it works.

That's fine for GPMC connected devices, devices with Ethernet on
EHCI won't idle properly AFAIK.
 
> > 3. Enable UART timeouts with something like this. You may need
> >    to update it for ttyS, I just changed ttyO to ttyS here:
> > 
> >    #!/bin/bash
> >    uarts=$(find /sys/class/tty/ttyS*/device/power/ -type d)
> >    for uart in $uarts; do
> >    	echo 3000 > $uart/autosuspend_delay_ms
> >    done
> > 
> >    uarts=$(find /sys/class/tty/ttyS*/power/ -type d)
> >    for uart in $uarts; do
> >    	echo enabled > $uart/wakeup
> >    	echo auto > $uart/control
> >    done
> > 
> >    echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/pm_debug/enable_off_mode
> > 
> > 4. Wait for UART to time out and verify you hit off-idle by
> >    looking at the debugfs entry:
> > 
> >    # cat /sys/kernel/debug/pm_debug/count
> >    ...
> >    core_pwrdm (ON),OFF:6,RET:0,INA:0,ON:7,RET-LOGIC-OFF:0,RET-MEMBANK1-OFF:0,RET-MEMBANK2-OFF:0
> 
> That core_pwrdm shows only up on dra7. However with both drivers (mine
> and the current omap serial) the UART went down after three secs (as
> expected) and didn't accept any characters while writing on the
> console. If I wrote something on it via network (like echo a >
> /dev/ttyO0) it came back and was working as long as I kept it busy. The
> thing is that RX does not wake it up. Any idea?

If the RX pin does not wake it up, you need to configure the
pinctrl-single entry for it, and configure that pin as a wake-up
interrupt. See the interrupts-extended entry in omap3-beagle-xm.dts.

> Also, while it was I checked the core_pwrdm and I had ON:1 and OFF:0.
> So something is not right.
> Since Dra7 has some things missing I tried it on am335x with the same
> behavior. Should it work here?

Yes only omap3 currently has the pieces needed for off-idle in the
mainline kernel.
 
> > I just tried testing this, but did not get far on my omap3 evm:
> > 
> > [    5.445953] Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x1028) at 0xfb020000
> > [    5.453674] Internal error: : 1028 [#1] SMP ARM
> > [    5.458221] Modules linked in:
> > [    5.461334] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc4-00006-gaab2c6a #98
> > [    5.469024] task: ce058b00 ti: ce05a000 task.ti: ce05a000
> > [    5.474456] PC is at mem32_serial_in+0xc/0x1c
> > [    5.478851] LR is at serial8250_do_startup+0xc8/0x89c
> > [    5.483917] pc : [<c0346f90>]    lr : [<c034ab2c>]    psr: 60000113
> > [    5.483917] sp : ce05bd10  ip : c0a0aba8  fp : ce275400
> > [    5.495452] r10: 00000000  r9 : cda7a680  r8 : ce27568c
> > [    5.500701] r7 : ce275400  r6 : 00000000  r5 : ce280408  r4 : c10b6234
> > [    5.507263] r3 : fb020000  r2 : 00000002  r1 : fb020000  r0 : c10b6234
> > [    5.513854] Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
> > [    5.521179] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 80004019  DAC: 00000015
> > [    5.526977] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xce05a248)
> > [    5.532989] Stack: (0xce05bd10 to 0xce05c000)
> > ...
> > [    5.734771] [<c0346f90>] (mem32_serial_in) from [<c034ab2c>] (serial8250_do_startup+0xc8/0x89c)
> > [    5.743530] [<c034ab2c>] (serial8250_do_startup) from [<c03461f8>] (uart_startup.part.3+0x7c/0x1dc)
> > [    5.752624] [<c03461f8>] (uart_startup.part.3) from [<c0346d68>] (uart_open+0xe4/0x124)
> > [    5.760681] [<c0346d68>] (uart_open) from [<c032c19c>] (tty_open+0x130/0x58c)
> > [    5.767852] [<c032c19c>] (tty_open) from [<c01216f4>] (chrdev_open+0x9c/0x174)
> > [    5.775115] [<c01216f4>] (chrdev_open) from [<c011b8d4>] (do_dentry_open+0x1d0/0x310)
> > [    5.783020] [<c011b8d4>] (do_dentry_open) from [<c011bd98>] (finish_open+0x34/0x4c)
> > [    5.790710] [<c011bd98>] (finish_open) from [<c012a8f8>] (do_last.isra.27+0x5a4/0xb98)
> > [    5.798675] [<c012a8f8>] (do_last.isra.27) from [<c012afa0>] (path_openat+0xb4/0x5e4)
> > [    5.806549] [<c012afa0>] (path_openat) from [<c012b7dc>] (do_filp_open+0x2c/0x80)
> > [    5.814086] [<c012b7dc>] (do_filp_open) from [<c011cd14>] (do_sys_open+0x100/0x1d0)
> > [    5.821777] [<c011cd14>] (do_sys_open) from [<c07b7ce0>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x124/0x1c8)
> > [    5.830200] [<c07b7ce0>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c054eb90>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4)
> > [    5.838348] [<c054eb90>] (kernel_init) from [<c000e868>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
> > 
> > Sounds like the clocks are not enabled properly?
> 
> puh. So after staring a while at your backtrace I realized that
> shutdown & startup callbacks are not overwritten properly. Well, thanks
> for that. Anyway, even serial8250_do_startup() has
> pm_runtime_get_sync() before first register access so I have no idea
> where this is coming from.

Maybe because the console is enabled for that port?

Regards,

Tony



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