[RFC v2 10/10] serial: asc: Add support for KGDB's FIQ/NMI mode

Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org
Fri May 23 07:50:37 PDT 2014


Hi Dan,

On 23/05/14 14:57, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> If the platform bus has provided the st-asc with a FIQ resource (i.e. a
> second IRQ) then speculatively register it with KGDB when the polling
> driver is initialized.
>
> By providing this information to KGDB the serial driver offers
> "permission" for KGDB to route the UART interrupt signal from the
> drivers own handler to KGDBs FIQ handler (which will eventually use the
> UART's polled I/O callbacks to interact with the user). This permission
> also implies the st-asc driver has already unmasked RX interrupts
> (otherwise the FIQ handler will never trigger). This unmask is copied
> from similar code in amba-pl011.c .
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>
> Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at gmail.com>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at st.com>
> Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard at st.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
> Cc: kernel at stlinux.com
> Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>   drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>


Also this new entry should be documented in the st-asc dt bindings.


> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c
> index c7f61ac..328720f 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>   #include <linux/of_platform.h>
>   #include <linux/serial_core.h>
>   #include <linux/clk.h>
> +#include <linux/kgdb.h>
>
>   #define DRIVER_NAME "st-asc"
>   #define ASC_SERIAL_NAME "ttyAS"
> @@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
>   struct asc_port {
>   	struct uart_port port;
>   	struct clk *clk;
> +	int fiq;
>   	unsigned int hw_flow_control:1;
>   	unsigned int force_m1:1;
>   };
...


>   #ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_FIQ
> +	.poll_init     = asc_poll_init,
> +#endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_FIQ */
>   	.poll_get_char = asc_get_poll_char,
>   	.poll_put_char = asc_put_poll_char,
>   #endif /* CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL */
>   };
>
> +

no need of extra new line here.

>   static int asc_init_port(struct asc_port *ascport,
>   			  struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
> @@ -673,6 +699,7 @@ static int asc_init_port(struct asc_port *ascport,
>   	port->fifosize	= ASC_FIFO_SIZE;
>   	port->dev	= &pdev->dev;
>   	port->irq	= platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> +	ascport->fiq    = platform_get_irq(pdev, 1);
>

Probably its better to give names to the irq resources and get them. As 
forcing the order in DT is always tricky highly possible for an error.



Thanks,
srini

>   	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>   	port->membase = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res);
>



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