>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karicheri, Muralidharan
>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 3:18 PM
>To: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
>[email protected];
>[email protected]
>Cc: Balbi, Felipe; Karicheri, Muralidharan; Rob Herring; Mark Rutland; Ian 
>Campbell;
>Kumar Gala; Randy Dunlap; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Jiri Slaby
>Subject: [PATCH] serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration
>
>8250 uart driver currently supports only software assisted hw flow control. 
>The software
>assisted hw flow control maintains a hw_stopped flag in the tty structure to 
>stop and start
>transmission and use modem status interrupt for the event to drive the 
>handshake signals.
>This is not needed if hw has flow control capabilities. This patch adds a DT 
>attribute for
>enabling hw flow control for a uart port. Also skip stop and start if this 
>flag is present in flag
>field of the port structure.
>
>CC: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
>CC: Pawel Moll <[email protected]>
>CC: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
>CC: Ian Campbell <[email protected]>
>CC: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
>CC: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
>CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>CC: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
>
>Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <[email protected]>
>---
> .../devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt       |    2 ++
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c                |    6 ++++--
> drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c                     |    4 ++++
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c                   |   12 +++++++++---
> 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>index 1928a3e..123de01 100644
>--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Optional properties:
> - auto-flow-control: one way to enable automatic flow control support. The
>   driver is allowed to detect support for the capability even without this
>   property.
>+- hw-flow-control: this enables pure hw flow control and no software
>+  intervention needed.
>
> Example:
>
>diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c 
>b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>index 81f909c..6b1b868 100644
>--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>@@ -2338,9 +2338,11 @@ serial8250_do_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct
>ktermios *termios,
>        * the trigger, or the MCR RTS bit is cleared.  In the case where
>        * the remote UART is not using CTS auto flow control, we must
>        * have sufficient FIFO entries for the latency of the remote
>-       * UART to respond.  IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO.
>+       * UART to respond.  IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO. Also enable
>+       * AFE if hw flow control is supported
>        */
>-      if (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && port->fifosize >= 32) {
>+      if ((up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && (port->fifosize >= 32)) ||
>+          port->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW) {
>               up->mcr &= ~UART_MCR_AFE;
>               if (termios->c_cflag & CRTSCTS)
>                       up->mcr |= UART_MCR_AFE;
>diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c 
>index
>9924660..1a5f528 100644
>--- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct 
>platform_device *ofdev)
>                                         "auto-flow-control"))
>                       port8250.capabilities |= UART_CAP_AFE;
>
>+              if (of_property_read_bool(ofdev->dev.of_node,
>+                                        "hw-flow-control"))
>+                      port8250.port.flags |= UPF_HARD_FLOW;
>+
>               ret = serial8250_register_8250_port(&port8250);
>               break;
>       }
>diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c 
>b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>index 2cf5649..16e3615 100644
>--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>@@ -170,8 +170,12 @@ static int uart_port_startup(struct tty_struct *tty, 
>struct
>uart_state *state,
>                       if (tty->termios.c_cflag & CBAUD)
>                               uart_set_mctrl(uport, TIOCM_RTS | TIOCM_DTR);
>               }
>-
>-              if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>+              /*
>+               * if hw support flow control without software intervention,
>+               * then skip the below check
>+               */
>+              if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>+                  !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>                       spin_lock_irq(&uport->lock);
>                       if (!(uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport) & TIOCM_CTS))
>                               tty->hw_stopped = 1;
>@@ -2768,7 +2772,9 @@ void uart_handle_cts_change(struct uart_port *uport, 
>unsigned
>int status)
>
>       uport->icount.cts++;
>
>-      if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>+      /* skip below code if the hw flow control is supported */
>+      if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>+          !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
>               if (tty->hw_stopped) {
>                       if (status) {
>                               tty->hw_stopped = 0;
>--
>1.7.9.5

Can this be queued up for merge if looks good?

Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Software Development


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