Re: [PATCH v3] tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 14:50:51 EST


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:01:59PM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
> The Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies QDF2400 family of SoCs contains a
> custom (non-PrimeCell) implementation of the SBSA UART. Occasionally the
> BUSY bit in the Flag Register gets stuck as 1, erratum 44 for both 2432v1
> and 2400v1 SoCs.Checking that the Transmit FIFO Empty (TXFE) bit is 0,
> instead of checking that the BUSY bit is 1, works around the issue.
>
> To facilitate this substitution of flags and values, introduce
> vendor-specific inversion of Feature Register bits when UART AMBA Port
> (UAP) data is available. For the earlycon case, prior to UAP availability,
> implement alternative putc and early_write functions.
>
> Similar to what how ARMv8 ACPI PCI quirks are detected during MCFG parsing,
> check the OEM fields of the Serial Port Console Redirection (SPCR) ACPI
> table to determine if the current platform is known to be affected by the
> erratum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Since v2: Formatting and other improvements per Timur's suggestions
> Due to known (although trivial) conflicts in silicon-errata.txt, based on
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/core
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 2 ++
> drivers/acpi/spcr.c | 23 ++++++++++++
> drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
> index a71b8095dbd8..bc3d086bc624 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
> @@ -68,3 +68,5 @@ stable kernels.
> | | | | |
> | Qualcomm Tech. | Falkor v1 | E1003 | QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003 |
> | Qualcomm Tech. | Falkor v1 | E1009 | QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1009 |
> +| Qualcomm Tech. | QDF2432v1 UART | SoC E44 | N/A |
> +| Qualcomm Tech. | QDF2400v1 UART | SoC E44 | N/A |
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/spcr.c b/drivers/acpi/spcr.c
> index b8019c4c1d38..2b5d0fac81f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/spcr.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/spcr.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,26 @@
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/serial_core.h>
>
> +/*
> + * Some Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies SoCs have a defective UART BUSY bit.
> + * Detect them by examining the OEM fields in the SPCR header, similiar to PCI
> + * quirk detection in pci_mcfg.c.
> + */
> +static bool qdf2400_erratum_44_present(struct acpi_table_header *h)
> +{
> + if (memcmp(h->oem_id, "QCOM ", ACPI_OEM_ID_SIZE))
> + return false;
> +
> + if (!memcmp(h->oem_table_id, "QDF2432 ", ACPI_OEM_TABLE_ID_SIZE))
> + return true;
> +
> + if (!memcmp(h->oem_table_id, "QDF2400 ", ACPI_OEM_TABLE_ID_SIZE) &&
> + h->oem_revision == 0)
> + return true;
> +
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * parse_spcr() - parse ACPI SPCR table and add preferred console
> *
> @@ -93,6 +113,9 @@ int __init parse_spcr(bool earlycon)
> goto done;
> }
>
> + if (qdf2400_erratum_44_present(&table->header))
> + uart = "qdf2400_e44";
> +

This addresses my concern with using the MIDR; thanks for respinning
this. FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

It might be best to split the silicon-errata doc into a separate patch.
That can go via the arm64 tree without conflict whiel the driver patch
can go via the tty tree.

Thanks,
Mark.