* John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [160222 07:30]: > Hi Tony, > > On 2016-02-11, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> At these speeds, nearly every DMA interrupt is accompanied by a > >> spurious UART interrupt. So, sadly, the interrupts are doubled. > >> > >> It is on my TODO list to verify if the spurious UART interrupts > >> exactly match the recently added [0] spurious interrupt detection in > >> omap-intc. > > > > If you're seeing spurious interrupts you may want try adding > > a flush of posted write at the end of the 8250_omap interrupt > > handler. Basically read back some register from the 8250. This > > has fixed so far pretty much all the spurious IRQ issues for > > omaps using the drivers/irqchip/irq-omap-intc.c, meaning omap3 > > and am335x and ti81xx variants too most likely. > > I have done significant testing with this using linux-next-20160219. The > only changes I made were to disable the "rx_dma_broken" feature so that > DMA would definately be used. I created a simple test where I send 48000 > bytes at 230400bps over UART from one device to another. Several > different target devices and configurations were used to test the RX-DMA > feature of the 8250_omap. The expected result is 1000 DMA interrupts and > 0 UART interrupts. > > With the am335x (Beaglebone Black, eDMA engine) I see 1000 DMA > interrupts and 1000 spurious UART interrupts. The spurious UART > interrupts arrive 30-50us _before_ the DMA interrupts. Always. > > If I disable UART timeout interrupts (RDI), the same test generates no > spurious UART interrupts. Only 1000 DMA interrupts. > > I ran the same test using a dra7 board (sDMA engine) as the target > device. RDI was enabled. Here I see no spurious interrupts. > > I modified the dra7 device tree to use the eDMA engine with the > UART. RDI was enabled. Here I also see no spurious interrupts. > > The dra7 uses a different interrupt controller (irq-gic instead of > irq-omap-intc), which probably explains why dra7+edma+rdi works > correctly. > > I tried adding various and multiple register reads at the end of the > interrupt handlers, but this made no difference. What is interesting is > the fact that the spurious UART interrupt always _preceeds_ the DMA > interrupt and by a significant yet relatively consistent amount > (30-50us). Even the very first DMA interrupt is preceeded by the > spurious interrupt. It is as if the UART timeout logic is triggering > because it does not notice that the eDMA is pulling the data from the > FIFO. But only when the irq-omap-intc in involved. > > Tony, if you have any futher ideas, I'd be happy to try them out. > > Summary: If DMA is ever going to be re-enabled for am335x/8250_omap, > then it will be necessary to return IRQ_HANDLED for the spurious UART > interrupts that will preceed each DMA-RX completion interrupt. Well thanks for checking, sounds like this is some UART specific issue. I guess one more thing you could try is adding a read backs to the functions staring the DMA transfers and see if that makes any difference. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
