From: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-sunxi <linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] drm/sun4i: hdmi: Implement I2C adapter for A10s DDC bus
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:58:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANwerB2X1Z-B2-rFeizh7ijQ-QX6K8o7CKaht+KWdQ6qnkDYvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170630093422.om7b75q5wyuby6r7@flea>
Hi Maxime,
On 30 June 2017 at 19:34, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:22:13AM +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
>> Hi Maxime,
>>
>> On 30 June 2017 at 01:56, Maxime Ripard
>> <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:39:33PM +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
>> >> >> + u32 int_status;
>> >> >> + u32 fifo_status;
>> >> >> + /* Read needs empty flag unset, write needs full flag unset */
>> >> >> + u32 flag = read ? SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_STATUS_EMPTY :
>> >> >> + SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_STATUS_FULL;
>> >> >> + int ret;
>> >> >> +
>> >> >> + /* Wait until error or FIFO ready */
>> >> >> + ret = readl_poll_timeout(hdmi->base + SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_INT_STATUS_REG,
>> >> >> + int_status,
>> >> >> + is_err_status(int_status) ||
>> >> >> + is_fifo_flag_unset(hdmi, &fifo_status, flag),
>> >> >> + min(len, SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_SIZE) * byte_time,
>> >> >> + 100000);
>> >> >> +
>> >> >> + if (is_err_status(int_status))
>> >> >> + return -EIO;
>> >> >> + if (ret)
>> >> >> + return -ETIMEDOUT;
>> >> >
>> >> > Why not just have
>> >> > ret = readl_poll_timeout(hdmi->base + SUN4I_HDMI_DDC_FIFO_STATUS_REG, reg,
>> >> > !(reg & flag), 100, 100000);
>> >> >
>> >> > if (ret < 0)
>> >> > if (is_err_status())
>> >> > return -EIO;
>> >> > return ret;
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> If I check error status after readl_poll_timeout and there is an error
>> >> (e.g. the I2C address does not have a corresponding device connected
>> >> or nothing connected to HDMI port) it will keep checking the fifo
>> >> status even though error bit is set in the int status and then timeout
>> >> after 100 ms. If it checks the int status register at the same time,
>> >> it will error after 100 nanoseconds. I don't want to introduce
>> >> unnecessary delays considering part of the reason for adding this
>> >> driver to make it more usable for non-standard use cases.
>> >
>> > Well, polling for 100ms doesn't seem great either. What was the
>> > rationale behind that timeout?
>> >
>>
>> When an error occurs one of the error bits will be set in the
>> INT_STATUS register so this is detected very quickly if I check the
>> INT_STATUS and FIFO_STATUS at the same time. The 100 ms timeout is in
>> case the I2C slave does clock stretching in which case the transfer
>> may take longer than the predicted time.
>
> 100ms isn't stretching anymore, it's worse than that.
>
What would you suggest?
>> > And we can also reverse the check and look at the INT_STATUS
>> > register. The errors will be there, and we can program the threshold
>> > we want in both directions and use the
>> > DDC_FIFO_Request_Interrupt_Status bit.
>> >
>>
>> I did try that when I was doing the v3 patch but I couldn't get it to
>> work as mentioned previously in the v3 patch discussion. I programmed
>> the FIFO_RX_TRIGGER_THRES and FIFO_TX_TRIGGER_THRES in DDC_FIFO_Ctrl
>> register at the same time as setting FIFO_Address_Clear but the
>> request interrupt status bit did not get updated to the appropriate
>> state that is consistent with the FIFO level and the thresholds. I did
>> try this several times for subsequent patch versions without success.
>
> What values did you set it to?
>
FIFO_RX_TRIGGER_THRES: 0
FIFO_TX_TRIGGER_THRES: 15
> Maxime
>
> --
> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
Regards,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-30 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-27 14:36 [PATCH v5] drm/sun4i: hdmi: Implement I2C adapter for A10s DDC bus Jonathan Liu
2017-06-28 9:20 ` Maxime Ripard
2017-06-28 10:39 ` Jonathan Liu
2017-06-29 15:56 ` Maxime Ripard
2017-06-29 22:22 ` Jonathan Liu
2017-06-30 3:16 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2017-06-30 14:14 ` Jonathan Liu
2017-06-30 16:01 ` Maxime Ripard
2017-06-30 9:34 ` Maxime Ripard
2017-06-30 9:58 ` Jonathan Liu [this message]
2017-07-01 6:29 ` Jonathan Liu
2017-06-28 22:06 ` kbuild test robot
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