Hi
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:08:48PM +0530, Muni Sekhar wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I’m trying to understand how user mode buffer is written to low level
>> serial hardware registers.
>>
>> For this I read the kernel code and I came to know that from user mode
>> write() API lands into kernel’s tty_write() ("drivers/tty/tty_io.c")
>> and then it calls a uart_write() ("drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c"). I’m looking for any existing sample code which does DMA transfers of
>>
>> In uart_write(), the buffer is copied to circ_buf and then it calls
>> low level serial hardware driver’s start_tx() (struct uart_ops
>> .start_tx). But here I could not find how the buffer kept in circ_buf
>> is copied to serial port’s TX_FIFO registers?
>>
>> Can someone take a moment to explain me on this?
>
> It all depends on which specific UART driver you are looking at, they
> all do it a bit different depending on the hardware.
>
> Which one are you looking at? Look at what the start_tx callback does
> for that specific driver, that should give you a hint as to how data
> starts flowing. Usually an interrupt is enabled that is used to flush
> the buffer out to the hardware.
>
UART transmitted data. I looked at the bcm63xx_uart.c, it looks it
does not handle DMA transfers. Even copying the Tx buffer (from
circ_buf) to UART_FIFO_REG happening in ISR.
You can have a look at atmel_serial kernel module (built for ARM).
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
The dma buffer is linked to uart circular buffer in prepare_tx() function called from uart_startup(). It's released in release_tx() function called from uart_shutdown(). DMA buffer is managed in schedule_tx() function called from a tasklet triggered by the ISR.
HTH
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
--
Thanks,
Sekhar
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