2014-06-11 20:54:24

by Karicheri, Muralidharan

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration

On 5/28/2014 4:04 PM, Dann Frazier wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Murali Karicheri <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 8250 uart driver currently supports only software assisted hw flow
>> control. The software assisted hw flow control maintains a hw_stopped
>> flag in the tty structure to stop and start transmission and use modem
>> status interrupt for the event to drive the handshake signals. This is
>> not needed if hw has flow control capabilities. This patch adds a
>> DT attribute for enabling hw flow control for a uart port. Also skip
>> stop and start if this flag is present in flag field of the port
>> structure.
> ubuntu@hwflow:~$ sudo stty -a --file /dev/ttyS0 |tr ' ' '\n' | grep crtscts
> crtscts
> ubuntu@hwflow:~$ ls /proc/device-tree/soc/serial@1c021000/has-hw-flow-control
> /proc/device-tree/soc/serial@1c021000/has-hw-flow-control
> ubuntu@hwflow:~$ python
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:58:30)
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> UPF_HARDWARE_FLOW = 1 << 21
>>>> if 0xB9200000 & UPF_HARDWARE_FLOW:
> ... print "OK"
> ...
> OK
>
> Hope that's a reasonable test case. Test fails when booted w/o
> has-hw-flow-control attribute.
>
> Tested-by: dann frazier <[email protected]>
What is the verdict? pass/fail? Ok/Not OK to merge?

Murali
>> Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <[email protected]>
>>
>> CC: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
>> CC: Pawel Moll <[email protected]>
>> CC: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
>> CC: Ian Campbell <[email protected]>
>> CC: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
>> CC: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
>> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>> CC: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
>> CC: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> .../devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt | 1 +
>> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 6 ++++--
>> drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c | 4 ++++
>> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 12 +++++++++---
>> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>> index 1928a3e..7705477 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Optional properties:
>> - auto-flow-control: one way to enable automatic flow control support. The
>> driver is allowed to detect support for the capability even without this
>> property.
>> +- has-hw-flow-control: the hardware has flow control capability.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>> index 0e1bf88..b69aff2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>> @@ -2338,9 +2338,11 @@ serial8250_do_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
>> * the trigger, or the MCR RTS bit is cleared. In the case where
>> * the remote UART is not using CTS auto flow control, we must
>> * have sufficient FIFO entries for the latency of the remote
>> - * UART to respond. IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO.
>> + * UART to respond. IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO. Also enable
>> + * AFE if hw flow control is supported
>> */
>> - if (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && port->fifosize >= 32) {
>> + if ((up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && (port->fifosize >= 32)) ||
>> + (port->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>> up->mcr &= ~UART_MCR_AFE;
>> if (termios->c_cflag & CRTSCTS)
>> up->mcr |= UART_MCR_AFE;
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>> index 9924660..77ec6a1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>> @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
>> "auto-flow-control"))
>> port8250.capabilities |= UART_CAP_AFE;
>>
>> + if (of_property_read_bool(ofdev->dev.of_node,
>> + "has-hw-flow-control"))
>> + port8250.port.flags |= UPF_HARD_FLOW;
>> +
>> ret = serial8250_register_8250_port(&port8250);
>> break;
>> }
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>> index b68550d..851707a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>> @@ -174,8 +174,12 @@ static int uart_port_startup(struct tty_struct *tty, struct uart_state *state,
>> if (tty->termios.c_cflag & CBAUD)
>> uart_set_mctrl(uport, TIOCM_RTS | TIOCM_DTR);
>> }
>> -
>> - if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>> + /*
>> + * if hw support flow control without software intervention,
>> + * then skip the below check
>> + */
>> + if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>> + !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>> spin_lock_irq(&uport->lock);
>> if (!(uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport) & TIOCM_CTS))
>> tty->hw_stopped = 1;
>> @@ -2772,7 +2776,9 @@ void uart_handle_cts_change(struct uart_port *uport, unsigned int status)
>>
>> uport->icount.cts++;
>>
>> - if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>> + /* skip below code if the hw flow control is supported */
>> + if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>> + !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>> if (tty->hw_stopped) {
>> if (status) {
>> tty->hw_stopped = 0;
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
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2014-06-11 21:05:27

by dann frazier

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Murali Karicheri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/28/2014 4:04 PM, Dann Frazier wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Murali Karicheri <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 8250 uart driver currently supports only software assisted hw flow
>>> control. The software assisted hw flow control maintains a hw_stopped
>>> flag in the tty structure to stop and start transmission and use modem
>>> status interrupt for the event to drive the handshake signals. This is
>>> not needed if hw has flow control capabilities. This patch adds a
>>> DT attribute for enabling hw flow control for a uart port. Also skip
>>> stop and start if this flag is present in flag field of the port
>>> structure.
>>
>> ubuntu@hwflow:~$ sudo stty -a --file /dev/ttyS0 |tr ' ' '\n' | grep
>> crtscts
>> crtscts
>> ubuntu@hwflow:~$ ls
>> /proc/device-tree/soc/serial@1c021000/has-hw-flow-control
>> /proc/device-tree/soc/serial@1c021000/has-hw-flow-control
>> ubuntu@hwflow:~$ python
>> Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:58:30)
>> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> UPF_HARDWARE_FLOW = 1 << 21
>>>>> if 0xB9200000 & UPF_HARDWARE_FLOW:
>>
>> ... print "OK"
>> ...
>> OK
>>
>> Hope that's a reasonable test case. Test fails when booted w/o
>> has-hw-flow-control attribute.
>>
>> Tested-by: dann frazier <[email protected]>
>
> What is the verdict? pass/fail? Ok/Not OK to merge?

Murali,

It is working for me, and appears to already be Linus' tree.

-dann

> Murali
>
>>> Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> CC: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Pawel Moll <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Ian Campbell <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
>>> CC: Santosh Shilimkar <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt | 1 +
>>> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 6 ++++--
>>> drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c | 4 ++++
>>> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 12 +++++++++---
>>> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>>> index 1928a3e..7705477 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>>> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Optional properties:
>>> - auto-flow-control: one way to enable automatic flow control support.
>>> The
>>> driver is allowed to detect support for the capability even without
>>> this
>>> property.
>>> +- has-hw-flow-control: the hardware has flow control capability.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>> index 0e1bf88..b69aff2 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>>> @@ -2338,9 +2338,11 @@ serial8250_do_set_termios(struct uart_port *port,
>>> struct ktermios *termios,
>>> * the trigger, or the MCR RTS bit is cleared. In the case
>>> where
>>> * the remote UART is not using CTS auto flow control, we must
>>> * have sufficient FIFO entries for the latency of the remote
>>> - * UART to respond. IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO.
>>> + * UART to respond. IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO. Also enable
>>> + * AFE if hw flow control is supported
>>> */
>>> - if (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && port->fifosize >= 32) {
>>> + if ((up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && (port->fifosize >= 32))
>>> ||
>>> + (port->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>>> up->mcr &= ~UART_MCR_AFE;
>>> if (termios->c_cflag & CRTSCTS)
>>> up->mcr |= UART_MCR_AFE;
>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>>> b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>>> index 9924660..77ec6a1 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>>> @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct
>>> platform_device *ofdev)
>>> "auto-flow-control"))
>>> port8250.capabilities |= UART_CAP_AFE;
>>>
>>> + if (of_property_read_bool(ofdev->dev.of_node,
>>> + "has-hw-flow-control"))
>>> + port8250.port.flags |= UPF_HARD_FLOW;
>>> +
>>> ret = serial8250_register_8250_port(&port8250);
>>> break;
>>> }
>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>>> b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>>> index b68550d..851707a 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>>> @@ -174,8 +174,12 @@ static int uart_port_startup(struct tty_struct *tty,
>>> struct uart_state *state,
>>> if (tty->termios.c_cflag & CBAUD)
>>> uart_set_mctrl(uport, TIOCM_RTS |
>>> TIOCM_DTR);
>>> }
>>> -
>>> - if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>>> + /*
>>> + * if hw support flow control without software
>>> intervention,
>>> + * then skip the below check
>>> + */
>>> + if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>>> + !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>>> spin_lock_irq(&uport->lock);
>>> if (!(uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport) & TIOCM_CTS))
>>> tty->hw_stopped = 1;
>>> @@ -2772,7 +2776,9 @@ void uart_handle_cts_change(struct uart_port
>>> *uport, unsigned int status)
>>>
>>> uport->icount.cts++;
>>>
>>> - if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>>> + /* skip below code if the hw flow control is supported */
>>> + if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>>> + !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>>> if (tty->hw_stopped) {
>>> if (status) {
>>> tty->hw_stopped = 0;
>>> --
>>> 1.7.9.5
>>>
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