Re: [PATCH 11/13] arm: dts: dra7: add DMA properties for UART

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 11/05/2014 05:20 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:33:15AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >> Two systems ran 16 hours each so far with no issues.  Pushed 170MB of
> >> data through the pair of serial ports on one system at 230400.
> > 
> > The console on uart3 doesn't appear to be using the dma assuming the
> > values in /sys for the dma controller and bytes transferred mean anything.
> > It does mention in dmesg that it allocated dma channels for uart3 though.
> 
> Then it should use it :)

I managed to get something dma related on uart3.  But it isn't happy:

[   95.577401] DMA misaligned error with device 53
repeated many times.

I wonder if the dma support isn't quite working for the omap572x yet in
this tree (ti's 3.12.y tree), or maybe it is picky and the driver still
needs a bit of work.

I have had no issues on uart7 and 8 without dma.

> There is omap_8250_tx_dma() and omap_8250_rx_dma(). Both setup
> callbacks (the rx+tx _complete). Upon successful DMA transfer you
> should see them invoked with bytes transfered (>0).
> For RX transfer you need at least trigger bytes in the FIFO within a
> given time frame (I think it was 46 bytes and the delay may be up to 2
> bytes). If you miss this then DMA for RX won't wire and you purge the
> FIFO manually via "timeout-interrupt" (the callback will be invoked
> with an error condition and 0 bytes).
> 
> Assuming this works for you then one should figure out why the counters
> in /sys are not updated…

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Len Sorensen