Re: [PATCH v2] serial: uartlite: Move out-of-range port-numbers into ULITE_NR_UARTS range

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On 11/22/21 23:08, Ruediger Willenberg wrote:
Am 19.11.2021 um 13:21 schrieb Michal Simek:
On 11/18/21 22:17, Ruediger Willenberg wrote:
Find free uart_port struct in range 0 <= id < ULITE_NR_UARTS when
the device tree port-number property is outside that range. This
happens when there are other UART types in the system because the
Xilinx device tree generator numbers all UARTs consecutively;
as a result, not as many Uartlites as specified by the
SERIAL_UARTLITE_NR_UARTS parameter could be successfully added.

Signed-off-by: Ruediger Willenberg <r.willenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
  - give KERN_NOTICE when changing the id,
    with reference to the requested port-number

-    if (id < 0 || id >= ULITE_NR_UARTS) {
-        dev_err(dev, "%s%i too large\n", ULITE_NAME, id);
+    if (id == ULITE_NR_UARTS) {
+        dev_err(dev, "maximum number of %s assigned\n", ULITE_NAME);
          return -EINVAL;
      }
@@ -676,7 +678,11 @@ static int ulite_assign(struct device *dev, int id, u32 base, int irq,
          dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
          return rc;
      }

nit: please keep this newline here.

-
+    if (oor_id >= 0)
+        dev_notice(dev,
+            "assigned uartlite with device tree port-number=<%i> to %s%i\n",
+            oor_id, ULITE_NAME, id);
+



[linux](master)$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict 0001-serial-uartlite-Move-out-of-range-port-numbers-into-.patch
CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis

Thanks, I apparently didn't do "--strict" checking, sorry. Will fix both in PATCH v3


And there is one more issue with this. If you start to mix serial IPs which are partially recorded in aliases. For example like this.

aliases {
     serial0 = &uart1;
};

uart0 {
...
};
Uart0 is probed first. It is without alias and id 0 will be assigned to it. Then uart1 is probed. It looks at aliases you get id 0 but it is already taken and you end up with "cannot assign to %s%i; it is already in use"

As I point out in the other thread
 "[PATCH v2] uartlite: Update the default for the SERIAL_UARTLITE_NR_UARTS"
(I don't feel crossposting all of it here would be good practice)

a) the Xilinx DTG gives "serial" aliases to _all_ Xilinx UARTs
b) the Xilinx DTG gives "port-number" properties to _all_ Xilinx UARTs
c) these two are not assigned in the same order by the Xilinx DTG, which is problematic

DTG/MSS logic should be solved in different mailing list that's why please move it there.


uartlite.c currently looks at port-number properties, not aliases. So unassigned aliases are not the issue. A similar-looking but more complicated issue that COULD happen, to be transparent, is this:

port-number is optional and as I said in the second thread I think that this should be deprecated and removed. Most of DT drivers take care about serial alias that's why we should go that route too.

And I also remember that drivers shouldn't really use different names as ttyUL, ttyPS, ttyAMA, etc but all of them should use the same name as ttyUSB is doing.

Thanks,
Michal



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