Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] tty: serial: use uart_port_tx_limited()

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-serial <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
	"Kevin Cernekee" <cernekee@gmail.com>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"Orson Zhai" <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
	"Baolin Wang" <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>,
	"Chunyan Zhang" <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
	"Patrice Chotard" <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] tty: serial: use uart_port_tx_limited()
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:19:08 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2653c92-1769-fc7c-8ad8-abf34affef6b@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220920075844.29360-1-jslaby@suse.cz>

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On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Jiri Slaby wrote:

> uart_port_tx_limited() is a new helper to send characters to the device.
> Use it in these drivers.
> 
> mux.c also needs to define tx_done(). But I'm not sure if the driver
> really wants to wait for all the characters to dismiss from the HW fifo
> at this code point. Hence I marked this as FIXME.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
> Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
> Cc: Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>
> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
> Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>
> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org

Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

One improvement suggestion below.

> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/altera_jtaguart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/altera_jtaguart.c
> index 23f339757894..f224f5141726 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/altera_jtaguart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/altera_jtaguart.c
> @@ -137,39 +137,17 @@ static void altera_jtaguart_rx_chars(struct altera_jtaguart *pp)
>  static void altera_jtaguart_tx_chars(struct altera_jtaguart *pp)
>  {
>  	struct uart_port *port = &pp->port;
> -	struct circ_buf *xmit = &port->state->xmit;
> -	unsigned int pending, count;
> -
> -	if (port->x_char) {
> -		/* Send special char - probably flow control */
> -		writel(port->x_char, port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_DATA_REG);
> -		port->x_char = 0;
> -		port->icount.tx++;
> -		return;
> -	}
> +	unsigned int space;
> +	u8 ch;
>  
> -	pending = uart_circ_chars_pending(xmit);
> -	if (pending > 0) {
> -		count = (readl(port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_REG) &
> -				ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK) >>
> -			ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_OFF;
> -		if (count > pending)
> -			count = pending;
> -		if (count > 0) {
> -			pending -= count;
> -			while (count--) {
> -				writel(xmit->buf[xmit->tail],
> -				       port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_DATA_REG);
> -				xmit->tail = (xmit->tail + 1) & (UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
> -				port->icount.tx++;
> -			}
> -			if (pending < WAKEUP_CHARS)
> -				uart_write_wakeup(port);
> -		}
> -	}
> +	space = readl(port->membase + ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_REG);
> +	space &= ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK;
> +	space >>= ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_OFF;

This is FIELD_GET(ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK, ...) & then allows 
killing ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_OFF. I'd probably do it in a 
separate patch though.

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