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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Esben Haabendal <esben@geanix.com>, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] serial: imx: Switch to nbcon console
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:34:24 +0206	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edb6gbsn.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bc0b5d3f99184d8ddbf860666513f9fa7760af8.1712303358.git.esben@geanix.com>

Hi Esben,

You are correct that there is considerable copy/paste from the 8250
driver. Hopefully having another nbcon driver will help us find a way to
cleanly consolidate that logic. Thanks for your work on this.

Comments from me below...

On 2024-04-05, Esben Haabendal <esben@geanix.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> index f7e4f38f08f3..2a49880c2651 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> +static bool imx_uart_console_write_atomic(struct console *co,
> +					  struct nbcon_write_context *wctxt)
> +{
> +	struct imx_port *sport = imx_uart_ports[co->index];
> +	struct uart_port *port = &sport->port;
> +	struct imx_port_ucrs old_ucr;
> +	unsigned int ucr1, usr2;
> +
> +	if (!nbcon_enter_unsafe(wctxt))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 *	First, save UCR1/2/3 and then disable interrupts
> +	 */
> +	imx_uart_ucrs_save(sport, &old_ucr);
> +	ucr1 = old_ucr.ucr1;
> +
> +	if (imx_uart_is_imx1(sport))
> +		ucr1 |= IMX1_UCR1_UARTCLKEN;
> +	ucr1 |= UCR1_UARTEN;
> +	ucr1 &= ~(UCR1_TRDYEN | UCR1_RRDYEN | UCR1_RTSDEN);
> +
> +	imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr1, UCR1);
> +
> +	imx_uart_writel(sport, old_ucr.ucr2 | UCR2_TXEN, UCR2);
> +
> +	if (sport->console_newline_needed)
> +		uart_console_write(port, "\n", 1, imx_uart_console_putchar);
> +	uart_console_write(port, wctxt->outbuf, wctxt->len,
> +			   imx_uart_console_putchar);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 *	Finally, wait for transmitter to become empty
> +	 *	and restore UCR1/2/3
> +	 */
> +	read_poll_timeout_atomic(imx_uart_readl, usr2, usr2 & USR2_TXDC,
> +				 0, 1000000, false, sport, USR2);
> +	imx_uart_ucrs_restore(sport, &old_ucr);
> +
> +	/* Success if no handover/takeover. */
> +	return nbcon_exit_unsafe(wctxt);
> +}

In your imx_uart_console_write_atomic() I see lots of register usage:

ucr1, ucr2, ucr3, usr2, uts

It is critical that _all_ usage of these registers throughout the driver
is protected, preferably protected by the port lock. Please go through
and verify that. If imx_uart_console_write_thread() is using even more
registers, you will need to check those as well.

For the 8250 I went through all uses and found several problems [0]. The
imx driver may have similar issues.

John Ogness

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230525093159.223817-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-15 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-05  7:56 [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] serial: imx: Switch to nbcon console Esben Haabendal
2024-04-05  7:56 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty Esben Haabendal
2024-04-05  8:06   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2024-04-05  8:32     ` Esben Haabendal
2024-04-05  7:56 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] serial: imx: Switch to nbcon console Esben Haabendal
2024-04-15 10:28   ` John Ogness [this message]
2024-04-05  8:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] " Marc Kleine-Budde

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