[PATCH v6] tty/serial: at91: fix hardware handshake on Atmel platforms
From: Richard Genoud <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-27 16:04:31
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linux-serial, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
microchip at91 serial driver, the rest, tty layer and serial drivers · Maintainers:
Richard Genoud, Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jiri Slaby
After commit 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management
when hardware handshake is enabled"), the hardware handshake wasn't
functional anymore on Atmel platforms (beside SAMA5D2).
To understand why, one has to understand the flag ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS
first:
Before commit 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management
when hardware handshake is enabled"), this flag was never set.
Thus, the CTS/RTS where only handled by serial_core (and everything
worked just fine).
This commit introduced the use of the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag,
enabling it for all boards when the user space enables flow control.
When the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is set, the Atmel USART controller
handles a part of the flow control job:
- disable the transmitter when the CTS pin gets high.
- drive the RTS pin high when the DMA buffer transfer is completed or
PDC RX buffer full or RX FIFO is beyond threshold. (depending on the
controller version).
NB: This feature is *not* mandatory for the flow control to work.
(Nevertheless, it's very useful if low latencies are needed.)
Now, the specifics of the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag:
- For platforms with DMAC and no FIFOs (sam9x25, sam9x35, sama5D3,
sama5D4, sam9g15, sam9g25, sam9g35)* this feature simply doesn't work.
( source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/7/598 )
Tested it on sam9g35, the RTS pins always stays up, even when RXEN=1
or a new DMA transfer descriptor is set.
=> ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS must not be used for those platforms
- For platforms with a PDC (sam926{0,1,3}, sam9g10, sam9g20, sam9g45,
sam9g46)*, there's another kind of problem. Once the flag
ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is set, the RTS pin can't be driven anymore via
RTSEN/RTSDIS in USART Control Register. The RTS pin can only be driven
by enabling/disabling the receiver or setting RCR=RNCR=0 in the PDC
(Receive (Next) Counter Register).
=> Doing this is beyond the scope of this patch and could add other
bugs, so the original (and working) behaviour should be set for those
platforms (meaning ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag should be unset).
- For platforms with a FIFO (sama5d2)*, the RTS pin is driven according
to the RX FIFO thresholds, and can be also driven by RTSEN/RTSDIS in
USART Control Register. No problem here.
(This was the use case of commit 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix
RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled"))
NB: If the CTS pin declared as a GPIO in the DTS, (for instance
cts-gpios = <&pioA PIN_PB31 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>), the transmitter will be
disabled.
=> ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag can be set for this platform ONLY IF the
CTS pin is not a GPIO.
So, the only case when ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS can be enabled is when
(atmel_use_fifo(port) &&
!mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(atmel_port->gpios, UART_GPIO_CTS))
Tested on all Atmel USART controller flavours:
AT91SAM9G35-CM (DMAC flavour), AT91SAM9G20-EK (PDC flavour),
SAMA5D2xplained (FIFO flavour).
* the list may not be exhaustive
Cc: <redacted> #4.4+ (beware, missing atmel_port variable)
Fixes: 1cf6e8fc8341 ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled")
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <redacted>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <redacted>
---
drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Note for -stable:
This patch will apply on 4.4.x/4.8.x but compilation will fail due to
a missing variable atmel_port (introduced in 4.9-rc1):
static void atmel_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
struct ktermios *old)
{
+ struct atmel_uart_port *atmel_port = to_atmel_uart_port(port);
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int old_mode, mode, imr, quot, baud;
Changes since v5:
- fix typos
- increase commentary
Changes since v4:
- the mctrl_gpio_use_rtscts() is gone since it was atmel_serial
specific. (so patch 1 is gone)
- patches 2 and 3 have been merged together since it didn't make
a lot of sense to correct the GPIO case in one separate patch.
- ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is now unset for platform with PDC
Changes since v3:
- remove superfluous #include <linux/err.h> (thanks to Uwe)
- rebase on next-20160930
Changes since v2:
- remove IS_ERR_OR_NULL() test in patch 1/3 as Uwe suggested.
- fix typos in patch 2/3
- rebase on next-20160927
- simplify the logic in patch 3/3.
Changes since v1:
- Correct patch 1 with the error found by kbuild.
- Add Alexandre's Acked-by on patch 2
- Rewrite patch 3 logic in the light of the on-going discussion
with Cyrille and Alexandre.
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
index fd8aa1f4ba78..168b10cad47b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c@@ -2132,11 +2132,29 @@ static void atmel_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios, mode |= ATMEL_US_USMODE_RS485; } else if (termios->c_cflag & CRTSCTS) { /* RS232 with hardware handshake (RTS/CTS) */ - if (atmel_use_dma_rx(port) && !atmel_use_fifo(port)) { - dev_info(port->dev, "not enabling hardware flow control because DMA is used"); - termios->c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS; - } else { + if (atmel_use_fifo(port) && + !mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(atmel_port->gpios, UART_GPIO_CTS)) { + /* + * with ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS set, the controller will + * be able to drive the RTS pin high/low when the RX + * FIFO is above RXFTHRES/below RXFTHRES2. + * It will also disable the transmitter when the CTS + * pin is high. + * This mode is not activated if CTS pin is a GPIO + * because in this case, the transmitter is always + * disabled (there must be an internal pull-up + * responsible for this behaviour). + * If the RTS pin is a GPIO, the controller won't be + * able to drive it according to the FIFO thresholds, + * but it will be handled by the driver. + */ mode |= ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS; + } else { + /* + * For platforms without FIFO, the flow control is + * handled by the driver. + */ + mode |= ATMEL_US_USMODE_NORMAL; } } else { /* RS232 without hadware handshake */