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authorPaul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>2012-01-21 00:27:41 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2012-01-24 14:11:07 -0800
commit43cf7c0bebf50d0b68aa42ae6d24cf08e3f24823 (patch)
tree84d71f6a775c017af20c3c9c4fc951d09e1eb4dd /drivers/tty
parent0a697b22252c9d7208b5fb3e9fbd124dd229f1d2 (diff)
tty: serial: OMAP: transmit FIFO threshold interrupts don't wake the chip
It seems that when the transmit FIFO threshold is reached on OMAP UARTs, it does not result in a PRCM wakeup. This appears to be a silicon bug. This means that if the MPU powerdomain is in a low-power state, the MPU will not be awakened to refill the FIFO until the next interrupt from another device. The best solution, at least for the short term, would be for the OMAP serial driver to call a OMAP subarchitecture function to prevent the MPU powerdomain from entering a low power state while the FIFO has data to transmit. However, we no longer have a clean way to do this, since patches that add platform_data function pointers have been deprecated by the OMAP maintainer. So we attempt to work around this as well. The workarounds depend on the setting of CONFIG_CPU_IDLE. When CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n, the driver will now only transmit one byte at a time. This causes the transmit FIFO threshold interrupt to stay active until there is no more data to be sent. Thus, the MPU powerdomain stays on during transmits. Aside from that energy consumption penalty, each transmitted byte results in a huge number of UART interrupts -- about five per byte. This wastes CPU time and is quite inefficient, but is probably the most expedient workaround in this case. When CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y, there is a slightly more direct workaround: the PM QoS constraint can be abused to keep the MPU powerdomain on. This results in a normal number of interrupts, but, similar to the above workaround, wastes power by preventing the MPU from entering WFI. Future patches are planned for the 3.4 merge window to implement more efficient, but also more disruptive, workarounds to these problems. DMA operation is unaffected by this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: Govindraj Raja <govindraj.r@ti.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c51
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
index ca54f038ab4..e00ac05cfdb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
@@ -88,6 +88,49 @@ static inline void serial_omap_clear_fifos(struct uart_omap_port *up)
serial_out(up, UART_FCR, 0);
}
+/**
+ * serial_omap_block_cpu_low_power_state - prevent MPU pwrdm from leaving ON
+ * @up: struct uart_omap_port *
+ *
+ * Prevent the MPU powerdomain from entering a power state lower than
+ * ON. (It should be sufficient to prevent it from entering INACTIVE,
+ * but there is presently no easy way to do this.) This works around
+ * a suspected silicon bug in the OMAP UART IP blocks. The UARTs should
+ * wake the PRCM when the transmit FIFO threshold interrupt is raised, but
+ * they do not. See also serial_omap_allow_cpu_low_power_state(). No
+ * return value.
+ */
+static void serial_omap_block_cpu_low_power_state(struct uart_omap_port *up)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
+ up->latency = 1;
+ schedule_work(&up->qos_work);
+#else
+ up->max_tx_count = 1;
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
+ * serial_omap_allow_cpu_low_power_state - remove power state restriction on MPU
+ * @up: struct uart_omap_port *
+ *
+ * Cancel the effects of serial_omap_block_cpu_low_power_state().
+ * This should allow the MPU powerdomain to enter a power state lower
+ * than ON, assuming the rest of the kernel is not restricting it.
+ * This works around a suspected silicon bug in the OMAP UART IP
+ * blocks. The UARTs should wake the PRCM when the transmit FIFO
+ * threshold interrupt is raised, but they do not. No return value.
+ */
+static void serial_omap_allow_cpu_low_power_state(struct uart_omap_port *up)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
+ up->latency = up->calc_latency;
+ schedule_work(&up->qos_work);
+#else
+ up->max_tx_count = up->port.fifosize / 4;
+#endif
+}
+
/*
* serial_omap_get_divisor - calculate divisor value
* @port: uart port info
@@ -163,6 +206,9 @@ static void serial_omap_stop_tx(struct uart_port *port)
serial_out(up, UART_IER, up->ier);
}
+ if (!up->use_dma)
+ serial_omap_allow_cpu_low_power_state(up);
+
pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(&up->pdev->dev);
pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(&up->pdev->dev);
}
@@ -264,7 +310,7 @@ static void transmit_chars(struct uart_omap_port *up)
serial_omap_stop_tx(&up->port);
return;
}
- count = up->port.fifosize / 4;
+ count = up->max_tx_count;
do {
serial_out(up, UART_TX, xmit->buf[xmit->tail]);
xmit->tail = (xmit->tail + 1) & (UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
@@ -297,6 +343,7 @@ static void serial_omap_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
if (!up->use_dma) {
pm_runtime_get_sync(&up->pdev->dev);
+ serial_omap_block_cpu_low_power_state(up);
serial_omap_enable_ier_thri(up);
pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(&up->pdev->dev);
pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(&up->pdev->dev);
@@ -1421,6 +1468,8 @@ static int serial_omap_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
up->port.fifosize = 64;
up->port.ops = &serial_omap_pops;
+ up->max_tx_count = up->port.fifosize / 4;
+
if (pdev->dev.of_node)
up->port.line = of_alias_get_id(pdev->dev.of_node, "serial");
else