RE: [PATCH] Xilinx: hwicap: cleanup polling timeout.

Not really... In this case 'faster' means 'faster ICAP core' not 'faster
processor':
This is really something that is bounded by the number of cycles.

Steve

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From: <redacted> [mailto:<redacted>] On Behalf Of

Grant Likely

Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 1:01 PM
To: Stephen Neuendorffer
Cc: <redacted>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Xilinx: hwicap: cleanup polling timeout.
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On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer
[off-list ref] wrote:

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In order to avoid polling forever if an error occurs, this driver
 includes a timeout counter.  However, in fast systems, this counter
 wasn't high enough.  This patch fixes the bug and also makes the
 buffer-based and fifo-based drivers return the same error condition

on

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 a timeout (-EIO).

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Would it be better to base the timeout on real time instead of a hard
iteration count?
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Cheers,
g.
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 Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer

[off-list ref]

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 ---
  drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/buffer_icap.c   |   10 ++++++++--
  drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/fifo_icap.c     |    9 +++++++++
  drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.h |    3 ---
  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

 diff --git a/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/buffer_icap.c

b/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/buffer_icap.c

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 index aa7f796..0993883 100644
 --- a/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/buffer_icap.c
 +++ b/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/buffer_icap.c
 @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@

  #include "buffer_icap.h"

 +/* Number of times to poll the done register.  This has to be

large

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 +   enough to allow an entire configuration to complete. If an

entire

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 +   page (4kb) is configured at once, that could take up to 4k

cycles

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 +   with a byte-wide icap interface. */
 +#define XHI_MAX_RETRIES     5000
 +
  /* Indicates how many bytes will fit in a buffer. (1 BRAM) */
  #define XHI_MAX_BUFFER_BYTES        2048
  #define XHI_MAX_BUFFER_INTS         (XHI_MAX_BUFFER_BYTES >> 2)
 @@ -208,7 +214,7 @@ static int buffer_icap_device_read(struct

hwicap_drvdata *drvdata,

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        while (buffer_icap_busy(base_address)) {
                retries++;
                if (retries > XHI_MAX_RETRIES)
 -                       return -EBUSY;
 +                       return -EIO;
        }
        return 0;

 @@ -242,7 +248,7 @@ static int buffer_icap_device_write(struct

hwicap_drvdata *drvdata,

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        while (buffer_icap_busy(base_address)) {
                retries++;
                if (retries > XHI_MAX_RETRIES)
 -                       return -EBUSY;
 +                       return -EIO;
        }
        return 0;

 diff --git a/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/fifo_icap.c

b/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/fifo_icap.c

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 index 776b505..d1cd928 100644
 --- a/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/fifo_icap.c
 +++ b/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/fifo_icap.c
 @@ -35,6 +35,15 @@

  #include "fifo_icap.h"

 +/* Number of times to poll the done register.  This has to be

large

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 + * enough to allow an entire configuration to complete.  If an

entire

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 + * page (4kb) is configured at once, that could take up to 4k

cycles

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 + * with a byte-wide icap interface.  In most cases, this driver is
 + * used with a much smaller fifo, but this should be sufficient in

the

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 + * worst case.
 + */
 +#define XHI_MAX_RETRIES     5000
 +
  /* Register offsets for the XHwIcap device. */
  #define XHI_GIER_OFFSET        0x1C  /* Device Global Interrupt

Enable Reg */

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  #define XHI_IPISR_OFFSET 0x20  /* Interrupt Status Register */
 diff --git a/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.h

b/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.h

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 index 1f9c8b0..fd4be31 100644
 --- a/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.h
 +++ b/drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap/xilinx_hwicap.h
 @@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ struct hwicap_driver_config {
        void (*reset)(struct hwicap_drvdata *drvdata);
  };

 -/* Number of times to poll the done regsiter */
 -#define XHI_MAX_RETRIES     10
 -
  /************ Constant Definitions *************/

  #define XHI_PAD_FRAMES              0x1
 --
 1.5.3.4-dirty

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.