Re: [PATCH v4] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Support per-burst residue granularity

[Jon Hunter]

On 03/07/2019 18:00, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 03.07.2019 19:37, Jon Hunter ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>
>> On 03/07/2019 02:28, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> Tegra's APB DMA engine updates words counter after each transferred burst
>>> of data, hence it can report transfer's residual with more fidelity which
>>> may be required in cases like audio playback. In particular this fixes
>>> audio stuttering during playback in a chromium web browser. The patch is
>>> based on the original work that was made by Ben Dooks and a patch from
>>> downstream kernel. It was tested on Tegra20 and Tegra30 devices.
>>>
>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190424162348.23692-1-ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>> Link: https://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=linux-4.4.git;a=commit;h=c7bba40c6846fbf3eaad35c4472dcc7d8bbc02e5
>>> Inspired-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>>
>>> v4: The words_xferred is now also reset on a new iteration of a cyclic
>>>     transfer by ISR, so that dmaengine_tx_status() won't produce a
>>>     misleading warning splat on TX status re-checking after a cycle
>>>     completion when cyclic transfer consists of a single SG.
>>>
>>> v3: Added workaround for a hardware design shortcoming that results
>>>     in a words counter wraparound before end-of-transfer bit is set
>>>     in a cyclic mode.
>>>
>>> v2: Addressed review comments made by Jon Hunter to v1. We won't try
>>>     to get words count if dma_desc is on free list as it will result
>>>     in a NULL dereference because this case wasn't handled properly.
>>>
>>>     The residual value is now updated properly, avoiding potential
>>>     integer overflow by adding the "bytes" to the "bytes_transferred"
>>>     instead of the subtraction.
>>>
>>>  drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
>>> index 79e9593815f1..148d136191d7 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
>>> @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ struct tegra_dma_sg_req {
>>>  	bool				last_sg;
>>>  	struct list_head		node;
>>>  	struct tegra_dma_desc		*dma_desc;
>>> +	unsigned int			words_xferred;
>>>  };
>>>  
>>>  /*
>>> @@ -496,6 +497,7 @@ static void tegra_dma_configure_for_next(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc,
>>>  	tdc_write(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_CSR,
>>>  				nsg_req->ch_regs.csr | TEGRA_APBDMA_CSR_ENB);
>>>  	nsg_req->configured = true;
>>> +	nsg_req->words_xferred = 0;
>>>  
>>>  	tegra_dma_resume(tdc);
>>>  }
>>> @@ -511,6 +513,7 @@ static void tdc_start_head_req(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc)
>>>  					typeof(*sg_req), node);
>>>  	tegra_dma_start(tdc, sg_req);
>>>  	sg_req->configured = true;
>>> +	sg_req->words_xferred = 0;
>>>  	tdc->busy = true;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> @@ -638,6 +641,8 @@ static void handle_cont_sngl_cycle_dma_done(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc,
>>>  		list_add_tail(&dma_desc->cb_node, &tdc->cb_desc);
>>>  	dma_desc->cb_count++;
>>>  
>>> +	sgreq->words_xferred = 0;
>>> +
>>>  	/* If not last req then put at end of pending list */
>>>  	if (!list_is_last(&sgreq->node, &tdc->pending_sg_req)) {
>>>  		list_move_tail(&sgreq->node, &tdc->pending_sg_req);
>>> @@ -797,6 +802,62 @@ static int tegra_dma_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *dc)
>>>  	return 0;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +static unsigned int tegra_dma_sg_bytes_xferred(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc,
>>> +					       struct tegra_dma_sg_req *sg_req)
>>> +{
>>> +	unsigned long status, wcount = 0;
>>> +
>>> +	if (!list_is_first(&sg_req->node, &tdc->pending_sg_req))
>>> +		return 0;
>>> +
>>> +	if (tdc->tdma->chip_data->support_separate_wcount_reg)
>>> +		wcount = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_WORD_TRANSFER);
>>> +
>>> +	status = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_STATUS);
>>> +
>>> +	if (!tdc->tdma->chip_data->support_separate_wcount_reg)
>>> +		wcount = status;
>>> +
>>> +	if (status & TEGRA_APBDMA_STATUS_ISE_EOC)
>>> +		return sg_req->req_len;
>>> +
>>> +	wcount = get_current_xferred_count(tdc, sg_req, wcount);
>>> +
>>> +	if (!wcount) {
>>> +		/*
>>> +		 * If wcount wasn't ever polled for this SG before, then
>>> +		 * simply assume that transfer hasn't started yet.
>>> +		 *
>>> +		 * Otherwise it's the end of the transfer.
>>> +		 *
>>> +		 * The alternative would be to poll the status register
>>> +		 * until EOC bit is set or wcount goes UP. That's so
>>> +		 * because EOC bit is getting set only after the last
>>> +		 * burst's completion and counter is less than the actual
>>> +		 * transfer size by 4 bytes. The counter value wraps around
>>> +		 * in a cyclic mode before EOC is set(!), so we can't easily
>>> +		 * distinguish start of transfer from its end.
>>> +		 */
>>> +		if (sg_req->words_xferred)
>>> +			wcount = sg_req->req_len - 4;
>>> +
>>> +	} else if (wcount < sg_req->words_xferred) {
>>> +		/*
>>> +		 * This case shall not ever happen because EOC bit
>>> +		 * must be set once next cyclic transfer is started.
>>
>> Should this still be cyclic here?
> 
> Do you mean the "comment" by "here"?
> 
> It will be absolutely terrible if this case happens for oneshot transfer, assume
> kernel/hardware is on fire.

Or more likely a SW bug :-)

Yes should never happen for either sg or cyclic, but there is no mention
of sg transfers. Maybe the sg case is more obvious but in general this
case should never happen for any transfer.

Jon

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