On 20/06/2013 12:30, Retallack, Mark :
Resubmited using correct format.
Hi Mark,
We have found a small problem with the Atmel serial driver (drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c) when using PDC. The
problem showed itself on our system when it is heavily loaded and the softirq's are implemented as threads.
The DMA buffers (2 off) are dynamically allocated when the driver is initialized. The relative location of these
buffers is down to the whims of the memory allocation software i.e. the buffers could be in contiguous memory or
separated by a number of bytes.
What if the buffers are contiguous and the PDC managed to fill both buffers before the handling tasklet could run,
the tasklet would be unable to identify this condition.
For example:
Assume DMA buffers A and B are both 0x200 bytes long and reside at addresses 0x100 and 0x300 respectively. Now also
assume that the PDC has managed to fill both buffers starting with B then moving to A (at which point the PDC
asserts the ENDRX and RXBUFF flags, resulting in the ENDRX interrupt). At this time the PDC has advanced the RPR to
one byte beyond the end of buffer A i.e. address 0x200.
When the tasklet runs, as far as it is concerned it is still processing buffer B. The first thing it does is to
work out whether the PDC has completely filled buffer B, which it does by subtracting buffer B address from the RPR
i.e. 0x200 - 0x200 = 0. So the tasklet believes that the buffer is empty rather than actually being full. In this
event, the tasklet does not update RNPR and RNCR to inform the PDC that buffer B can now be used (side effect of
which is that the ENDRX and RXBUFF flags remain set). When the tasklet reenables the ENDRX interrupt (when it
exits) the UART immediately generates an interrupt (based on the ENDRX flag being set). The whole process then
repeats while no further data is received.
Thanks a lot for this detailed description which nails the issue: it if
very valuable to have such an example.
Actually, I may need to move the "example" part of your description in
the comment part of the commit message (ie: after the "---" below).
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
I will re-send the message to the tty maintainer.
Thanks, best regards,
Thanks
Mark Retallack
Signed-off-by: Mark Retallack <mark.retallack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
index 3467462..3f1f65b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ struct atmel_dma_buffer {
dma_addr_t dma_addr;
unsigned int dma_size;
unsigned int ofs;
+ unsigned int dma_full;
};
struct atmel_uart_char {
@@ -393,7 +394,7 @@ static void atmel_start_rx(struct uart_port *port)
if (atmel_use_dma_rx(port)) {
/* enable PDC controller */
UART_PUT_IER(port, ATMEL_US_ENDRX | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT |
- port->read_status_mask);
+ ATMEL_US_RXBUFF | port->read_status_mask);
UART_PUT_PTCR(port, ATMEL_PDC_RXTEN);
} else {
UART_PUT_IER(port, ATMEL_US_RXRDY);
@@ -411,7 +412,7 @@ static void atmel_stop_rx(struct uart_port *port)
/* disable PDC receive */
UART_PUT_PTCR(port, ATMEL_PDC_RXTDIS);
UART_PUT_IDR(port, ATMEL_US_ENDRX | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT |
- port->read_status_mask);
+ ATMEL_US_RXBUFF | port->read_status_mask);
} else {
UART_PUT_IDR(port, ATMEL_US_RXRDY);
}
@@ -574,15 +575,27 @@ atmel_handle_receive(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int pending)
if (atmel_use_dma_rx(port)) {
/*
+ * Check for PDC full error
+ */
+ if (pending & (ATMEL_US_RXBUFF)) {
+ int i;
+ port->icount.buf_overrun++;
+ for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
+ atmel_port->pdc_rx[i].dma_full = 1;
+ }
+
+ /*
* PDC receive. Just schedule the tasklet and let it
* figure out the details.
*
* TODO: We're not handling error flags correctly at
* the moment.
*/
- if (pending & (ATMEL_US_ENDRX | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT)) {
+ if (pending & (ATMEL_US_ENDRX | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT |
+ ATMEL_US_RXBUFF)) {
UART_PUT_IDR(port, (ATMEL_US_ENDRX
- | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT));
+ | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT
+ | ATMEL_US_RXBUFF));
tasklet_schedule(&atmel_port->tasklet);
}
@@ -808,6 +821,19 @@ static void atmel_rx_from_dma(struct uart_port *port)
*/
head = min(head, pdc->dma_size);
+ /*
+ * If we have a RXBUFF set, it means that both buffers are full
+ * and cannot take anymore data, force a clean.
+ * This protects against the situation where both buffers
+ * are full and the head matches the tail because the head
+ * is pointing to the first byte in the second buffer.
+ * This makes it look like the current buffer is still empty
+ */
+ if (pdc->dma_full) {
+ head = pdc->dma_size;
+ pdc->dma_full = 0;
+ }
+
if (likely(head != tail)) {
dma_sync_single_for_cpu(port->dev, pdc->dma_addr,
pdc->dma_size, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
@@ -852,7 +878,7 @@ static void atmel_rx_from_dma(struct uart_port *port)
tty_flip_buffer_push(tport);
spin_lock(&port->lock);
- UART_PUT_IER(port, ATMEL_US_ENDRX | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT);
+ UART_PUT_IER(port, ATMEL_US_ENDRX | ATMEL_US_TIMEOUT | ATMEL_US_RXBUFF);
}
/*
@@ -954,6 +980,7 @@ static int atmel_startup(struct uart_port *port)
DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
pdc->dma_size = PDC_BUFFER_SIZE;
pdc->ofs = 0;
+ pdc->dma_full = 0;
}
atmel_port->pdc_rx_idx = 0;
--
Nicolas Ferre
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