RE: [PATCH v3 4/5] serial: 8250: Add AST2600 UART driver

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023, ChiaWei Wang wrote:

> > From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 5:43 PM
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023, Chia-Wei Wang wrote:
> > 
> > > Add new UART driver with DMA support for Aspeed AST2600 SoCs.
> > > The drivers mainly prepare the dma instance based on the 8250_dma
> > > implementation to leverage the AST2600 UART DMA (UDMA) engine.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chia-Wei Wang <chiawei_wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed.c | 224
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig       |   8 +
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/8250/Makefile      |   1 +
> > >  3 files changed, 233 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed.c
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed.c
> > > b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..04d0bf6fba28
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright (C) ASPEED Technology Inc.
> > > + */
> > > +#include <linux/device.h>
> > > +#include <linux/io.h>
> > > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > > +#include <linux/serial_8250.h>
> > > +#include <linux/serial_reg.h>
> > > +#include <linux/of.h>
> > > +#include <linux/of_irq.h>
> > > +#include <linux/of_platform.h>
> > > +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> > > +#include <linux/clk.h>
> > > +#include <linux/reset.h>
> > > +#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
> > > +#include <linux/circ_buf.h>
> > > +#include <linux/tty_flip.h>
> > > +#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
> > > +
> > > +#include "8250.h"
> > > +
> > > +#define DEVICE_NAME "aspeed-uart"
> > > +
> > > +struct ast8250_data {
> > > +	int line;
> > > +	int irq;
> > > +	u8 __iomem *regs;
> > > +	struct reset_control *rst;
> > > +	struct clk *clk;
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA
> > > +	struct uart_8250_dma dma;
> > > +#endif
> > > +};
> > > +
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA
> > > +static int ast8250_rx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p);
> > > +
> > > +static void ast8250_rx_dma_complete(void *param) {
> > > +	struct uart_8250_port *p = param;
> > > +	struct uart_8250_dma *dma = p->dma;
> > > +	struct tty_port *tty_port = &p->port.state->port;
> > > +	struct dma_tx_state	state;
> > > +	int	count;
> > > +
> > > +	dmaengine_tx_status(dma->rxchan, dma->rx_cookie, &state);
> > > +
> > > +	count = dma->rx_size - state.residue;
> > > +
> > > +	tty_insert_flip_string(tty_port, dma->rx_buf, count);
> > > +	p->port.icount.rx += count;
> > > +
> > > +	tty_flip_buffer_push(tty_port);
> > > +
> > > +	ast8250_rx_dma(p);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int ast8250_rx_dma(struct uart_8250_port *p) {
> > > +	struct uart_8250_dma *dma = p->dma;
> > > +	struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx;
> > > +
> > > +	tx = dmaengine_prep_slave_single(dma->rxchan, dma->rx_addr,
> > > +					 dma->rx_size, DMA_DEV_TO_MEM,
> > > +					 DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT | DMA_CTRL_ACK);
> > > +	if (!tx)
> > > +		return -EBUSY;
> > 
> > How does the DMA Rx "loop" restart when this is taken?
> 
> The loop re-starts from ast8250_startup.

Why would startup get called again?

> > > +	tx->callback = ast8250_rx_dma_complete;
> > > +	tx->callback_param = p;
> > > +
> > > +	dma->rx_cookie = dmaengine_submit(tx);
> > > +
> > > +	dma_async_issue_pending(dma->rxchan);
> > > +
> > > +	return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > These 2 functions look very similar to what 8250_dma offers for you. The only
> > difference I could see is that always start DMA Rx thing which could be
> > handled by adding some capability flag into uart_8250_dma for those UARTs
> > that can launch DMA Rx while Rx queue is empty.
> > 
> > So, just use the standard 8250_dma functions and make the small capabilities
> > flag tweak there.
> > 
> > By using the stock functions you also avoid 8250_dma Rx and your DMA Rx
> > racing like they currently would (8250_port assigns the functions from
> > 8250_dma when you don't specify the rx handler and the default 8250 irq
> > handler will call into those standard 8250 DMA functions).
> 
> Yes for the difference described.
> 
> Our customers usually use UDMA for file-transmissions over UART.
> And I found the preceding bytes will get lost easily due to the late 
> start of DMA engine. 
>
> In fact, I was seeking the default implementation to always start RX DMA 
> instead of enabling it upon DR bit rising. But no luck and thus add 
> ast8250_rx_dma. (The default 8250 ISR also called into up->dma->rx_dma)
>
> If adding a new capability flag is the better way to go, I will try to 
> implement in that way for further review.

Yes it would be much better.

Add unsigned int capabilities into uart_8250_dma and put the necessary 
checks + code into general code. Don't add any #ifdef 
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA into 8250_port.c nor 8250_dma.c. Instead, if you 
feel a need for one, use the #ifdef ... #else ... #endif in 8250.h to
provide an empty static inline function for the #else case.

> > I'm curious about this HW and how it behaves under these two scenarios:
> > - When Rx is empty, does UART/DMA just sit there waiting forever?
> 
> Yes.

Okay.

> > - When a stream of incoming Rx characters suddenly ends, how does
> > UART/DMA
> >   react? ...On 8250 UARTs I'm familiar with this triggers UART_IIR_TIMEOUT
> >   which you don't seem to handle.
> 
> UDMA also has a timeout control.
> If the data suddenly ends and timeout occurs, UDMA will trigger an interrupt.
> UDMA ISR then check if there is data available using DMA read/write 
> pointers and invokes callback if any. 

Okay. And the UART side won't trigger any interrupts?

> > When you provide answer to those two questions, I can try to help you further
> > on how to integrate into the standard 8250 DMA code.
> 
> Thanks!
> It would be great using the default one to avoid mostly duplicated code.

You need to take a look into handle_rx_dma() what to do there. Probably 
just call to ->rx_dma() unconditionally to prevent UART interrupts from 
messing up with DMA Rx. This restart for DMA Rx is just for backup if the 
DMA Rx "loop" stopped due to an error.


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