Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751878AbdF3OOr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:14:47 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f67.google.com ([209.85.214.67]:33660 "EHLO mail-it0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751560AbdF3OOp (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:14:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170627143652.13075-1-net147@gmail.com> <20170628092024.ejxy6itqj3hx6yew@flea> <20170629155620.4keqi4cumbtvv63u@flea> From: Jonathan Liu Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 00:14:44 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] drm/sun4i: hdmi: Implement I2C adapter for A10s DDC bus To: Chen-Yu Tsai , Maxime Ripard Cc: David Airlie , linux-kernel , dri-devel , linux-arm-kernel , linux-sunxi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3913 Lines: 98 Hi Chen-Yu and Maxime, On 30 June 2017 at 13:16, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Jonathan Liu wrote: >> Hi Maxime, >> >> On 30 June 2017 at 01:56, Maxime Ripard >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:39:33PM +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote: >>>> >> + u32 int_status; >>>> >> + u32 fifo_status; >>>> >> + /* Read needs empty flag unset, write needs full flag unset */ >>>> >> + u32 flag = read ? SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_STATUS_EMPTY : >>>> >> + SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_STATUS_FULL; >>>> >> + int ret; >>>> >> + >>>> >> + /* Wait until error or FIFO ready */ >>>> >> + ret = readl_poll_timeout(hdmi->base + SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_INT_STATUS_REG, >>>> >> + int_status, >>>> >> + is_err_status(int_status) || >>>> >> + is_fifo_flag_unset(hdmi, &fifo_status, flag), >>>> >> + min(len, SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_SIZE) * byte_time, >>>> >> + 100000); >>>> >> + >>>> >> + if (is_err_status(int_status)) >>>> >> + return -EIO; >>>> >> + if (ret) >>>> >> + return -ETIMEDOUT; >>>> > >>>> > Why not just have >>>> > ret = readl_poll_timeout(hdmi->base + SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_STATUS_REG, reg, >>>> > !(reg & flag), 100, 100000); >>>> > >>>> > if (ret < 0) >>>> > if (is_err_status()) >>>> > return -EIO; >>>> > return ret; >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> If I check error status after readl_poll_timeout and there is an error >>>> (e.g. the I2C address does not have a corresponding device connected >>>> or nothing connected to HDMI port) it will keep checking the fifo >>>> status even though error bit is set in the int status and then timeout >>>> after 100 ms. If it checks the int status register at the same time, >>>> it will error after 100 nanoseconds. I don't want to introduce >>>> unnecessary delays considering part of the reason for adding this >>>> driver to make it more usable for non-standard use cases. >>> >>> Well, polling for 100ms doesn't seem great either. What was the >>> rationale behind that timeout? >>> >> >> When an error occurs one of the error bits will be set in the >> INT_STATUS register so this is detected very quickly if I check the >> INT_STATUS and FIFO_STATUS at the same time. The 100 ms timeout is in >> case the I2C slave does clock stretching in which case the transfer >> may take longer than the predicted time. >> >>> And we can also reverse the check and look at the INT_STATUS >>> register. The errors will be there, and we can program the threshold >>> we want in both directions and use the >>> DDC_FIFO_Request_Interrupt_Status bit. >>> >> >> I did try that when I was doing the v3 patch but I couldn't get it to >> work as mentioned previously in the v3 patch discussion. I programmed >> the FIFO_RX_TRIGGER_THRES and FIFO_TX_TRIGGER_THRES in DDC_FIFO_Ctrl >> register at the same time as setting FIFO_Address_Clear but the >> request interrupt status bit did not get updated to the appropriate >> state that is consistent with the FIFO level and the thresholds. I did >> try this several times for subsequent patch versions without success. > > The manual says "When FIFO level is above this value in read mode, DMA > request and FIFO request interrupt are asserted if relative enable is on." > > Perhaps try enabling the interrupts? But if that were the case, wouldn't > using interrupts instead of polling be better? > > ChenYu > I managed to get the thresholds working so switching to using interrupts instead of polling will be my next goal. >> >>> Maxime >>> >>> -- >>> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons >>> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering >>> http://free-electrons.com >> >> Regards, >> Jonathan Regards, Jonathan