Raju,
I would expect data overruns causing lost characters if your CPU utilization is
high and your kernel
driver can't get back to servicing the UART IRQ fast enough. Your MCF523x part
appears to have
only a small FIFO buffer (a shift register and 3 receiver registers). So if
the data rate is faster than
the kernel can remove the data hardware FIFO it is likely you will miss data
due to overruns. So
in your case the 10th character was lost (overwritten) by the next character.
Sounds like you need
DMA support for the UART you are using or perhaps slow down the incoming data
or perhaps
turn hardware flow control on.
Michael
On 11/06/2013 04:40 AM, Raju B wrote:
Hi Michael,
The ColdFire is 523x and using UART serial interface.
Thanks & regards,
Raju B
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Michael Durrant <mdurr...@uclinux.org
<mailto:mdurr...@uclinux.org>> wrote:
Raj,
Which ColdFire are you using?
Which serial interface are you seeing this with (UART/SPI/I2C/..)?
Michael
On 11/05/2013 07:40 AM, Raju B wrote:
whenever i am trying to receive data from serial communication continuously
in uClinux, I am getting every 10th byte is overwrite by 11 byte and so on....
Iam using freescale coldfire processor. Could you any body please help me
to resolve this issue.
Thanks & Regards,
Raj
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
<mailto:lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:28:52AM -0400, Bair, Richard wrote:
> I have a 4.7MB application that runs on the 2.6.26 kernel (Freescale
BSP) and am working to make it run on the 2.6.38 kernel released in the ColdFire
BSP in Feb 2012. I'm concerned about memory allocation as my first attempt to run
on the 38 kernel appears to be using 2^n memory allocation vs. allocation that
sizes just 1-page over the application.
>
> 1) Can anyone tell me the exact kernel config name that needs to be
adjusted for the 38 kernel to set the default memory allocation?
> - Older posts indicate modules like page_alloc2 or Kmalloc2
control this so I'm going to investigate these in more detail
> - RTFMing indicate that this might be the area but I don't see
it in the 38 version (LTIB or make menucionfig):
> menuconfig -> kernel settings -> general settings, try enabling either the
"Permit large allocations" setting, or the "non-power-of-2"
>
> 2) Historically, we use LTIB to create the kernel. Does LTIB expose
most/all settings of the 2.6.38 kernel? Can it be out of sync with the make
menuconfig uClinus kernel?
Maybe this changed the behaviour you see:
commit fc4d5c292b68ef02514d2072dcbf82d090c34875
Author: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com <mailto:dhowe...@redhat.com>>
Date: Wed May 6 16:03:05 2009 -0700
nommu: make the initial mmap allocation excess behaviour Kconfig
configurable
NOMMU mmap() has an option controlled by a sysctl variable that
determines
whether the allocations made by do_mmap_private() should have the
excess
space trimmed off and returned to the allocator. Make the initial
setting
of this variable a Kconfig configuration option.
The reason there can be excess space is that the allocator only
allocates
in power-of-2 size chunks, but mmap()'s can be made in sizes that
aren't a
power of 2.
There are two alternatives:
(1) Keep the excess as dead space. The dead space then remains
unused for the
lifetime of the mapping. Mappings of shared objects such as
libc, ld.so
or busybox's text segment may retain their dead space forever.
(2) Return the excess to the allocator. This means that the dead
space is
limited to less than a page per mapping, but it means that for
a transient
process, there's more chance of fragmentation as the excess
space may be
reused fairly quickly.
During the boot process, a lot of transient processes are created,
and
this can cause a lot of fragmentation as the pagecache and various
slabs
grow greatly during this time.
By turning off the trimming of excess space during boot and
disabling
batching of frees, Coldfire can manage to boot.
A better way of doing things might be to have /sbin/init turn this
option
off. By that point libc, ld.so and init - which are all
long-duration
processes - have all been loaded and trimmed.
Reported-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor....@freescale.com
<mailto:lanttor....@freescale.com>>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com
<mailto:dhowe...@redhat.com>>
Tested-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor....@freescale.com
<mailto:lanttor....@freescale.com>>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <g...@snapgear.com <mailto:g...@snapgear.com>>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org
<mailto:a...@linux-foundation.org>>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org
<mailto:torva...@linux-foundation.org>>
After all before this commit, trimming after allocating was always done.
Now it is only done if you enable this CONFIG, or set the sysctl flag
at runtime, which of course affects behaviour for all allocations after
you change the setting.
--
Len Sorensen
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