Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: msm_serial: RX SW/FIFO mode fallback

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 1:55 AM Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> During db410c stress test and when the system is low on memory,
> the UART/console becomes unresponsive and never recover back.
> This has been narrowed down to the msm_start_rx_dma which does
> not manage error cases correctly (e.g. dma mapping failure),
> indeed, when an error happens, dma transfer is simply discarded
> and so never completed, leading to unconfigured RX path.
>
> This patch fixes this issue by switching to SW/FIFO mode in case
> of DMA issue. This mainly consists in resetting the receiver to
> apply RX BAM/DMA disabling change and re-enabling the RX level
> and stale interrupts (previously disabled for DMA transfers).
>
> The DMA will be re-enabled once memory is available since the
> SW/FIFO read function (msm_handle_rx_dm) retries to start dma
> on completion.

Is there a risk of the same thing occurring in the TX path?

>
> Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
> index 1cbae07..a63b703 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c
> @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ static void msm_start_rx_dma(struct msm_port *msm_port)
>                                    UARTDM_RX_SIZE, dma->dir);
>         ret = dma_mapping_error(uart->dev, dma->phys);
>         if (ret)
> -               return;
> +               goto sw_mode;
>
>         dma->desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_single(dma->chan, dma->phys,
>                                                 UARTDM_RX_SIZE, DMA_DEV_TO_MEM,
> @@ -661,6 +661,22 @@ static void msm_start_rx_dma(struct msm_port *msm_port)
>         return;
>  unmap:
>         dma_unmap_single(uart->dev, dma->phys, UARTDM_RX_SIZE, dma->dir);
> +
> +sw_mode:
> +       /*
> +        * Switch from DMA to SW/FIFO mode. After clearing Rx BAM (UARTDM_DMEN),

Where does this clear of UARTDM_DMEN occur?

> +        * receiver must be reset.
> +        */
> +       msm_write(uart, UART_CR_CMD_RESET_RX, UART_CR);
> +       msm_write(uart, UART_CR_RX_ENABLE, UART_CR);
> +
> +       msm_write(uart, UART_CR_CMD_RESET_STALE_INT, UART_CR);
> +       msm_write(uart, 0xFFFFFF, UARTDM_DMRX);
> +       msm_write(uart, UART_CR_CMD_STALE_EVENT_ENABLE, UART_CR);
> +
> +       /* Re-enable RX interrupts */
> +       msm_port->imr |= (UART_IMR_RXLEV | UART_IMR_RXSTALE);
> +       msm_write(uart, msm_port->imr, UART_IMR);
>  }
>
>  static void msm_stop_rx(struct uart_port *port)
> --
> 2.7.4
>



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