[PATCH] drivers/tty/serial/8250: Make Aspeed VUART SIRQ polarity configurable

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jul 29 12:19:23 AEST 2019


On Sun, 2019-07-28 at 00:00 -0400, Oskar Senft wrote:
> I was thinking exactly the same thing (which is why I pointed it out
> in the change description). Thanks for picking up on that :-D
> 
> I considered both options but decided to follow what's been done for
> the sirq and lpc_address settings, as sirq_polarity should really go
> together with the other two. I guess we could argue that the
> sirq_polarity likely always has to have a specific setting for the
> specific platform, whereas the sirq and the lpc_address might be
> configurable in some way from the host at runtime.
> 
> Another reason I decided against DTS is that the properties currently
> read from DTS are "standard properties" from the 8250 driver. So I
> wasn't sure if it's ok to add a property that clearly specific to the
> 8250_aspeed_vuart driver.
> 
> If anyone has strong feelings I can either change it from sysfs to
> DTS or add DTS on top - it's quite easy to do. Thoughts?

No strong feelings. Adding properties should be ok but on the other
hand, I agree with keeping things consistent with the other LPC
settings (address & irq#).

Cheers,
Ben.

> 
> Thanks
> Oskar.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 9:30 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt <
> benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 09:42 -0400, Oskar Senft wrote:
> > > Make the SIRQ polarity for Aspeed 24xx/25xx VUART configurable
> > via
> > > sysfs. It is required on some host platforms (e.g. TYAN S7106) to
> > > reconfigure this setting from the default to enable the host to
> > > receive
> > > interrupts from the VUART.
> > > 
> > > The setting is configurable via sysfs rather than device-tree to
> > stay
> > > in
> > > line with other related configurable settings.
> > 
> > If it's a fixed platform configuration that never changes at
> > runtime,
> > shouldn't it be in the device-tree instead ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ben
> > 
> > > Tested: Verified on TYAN S7106 mainboard.
> > > Signed-off-by: Oskar Senft <osk at google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  .../ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-aspeed-vuart      | 10 ++++-
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c   | 39
> > > +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-aspeed-vuart
> > > b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-aspeed-vuart
> > > index 8062953ce77b..64fad87ad964 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-aspeed-vuart
> > > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-aspeed-vuart
> > > @@ -6,10 +6,18 @@ Description:        Configures which IO port
> > the
> > > host side of the UART
> > >  Users:               OpenBMC.  Proposed changes should be mailed
> > to
> > >               openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> > >  
> > > -What:                /sys/bus/platform/drivers/aspeed-
> > vuart*/sirq
> > > +What:                /sys/bus/platform/drivers/aspeed-
> > vuart/*/sirq
> > >  Date:                April 2017
> > >  Contact:     Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>
> > >  Description: Configures which interrupt number the host side of
> > >               the UART will appear on the host <-> BMC LPC bus.
> > >  Users:               OpenBMC.  Proposed changes should be mailed
> > to
> > >               openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> > > +
> > > +What:                /sys/bus/platform/drivers/aspeed-
> > > vuart/*/sirq_polarity
> > > +Date:                July 2019
> > > +Contact:     Oskar Senft <osk at google.com>
> > > +Description: Configures the polarity of the serial interrupt to
> > the
> > > +             host via the BMC LPC bus.
> > > +Users:               OpenBMC.  Proposed changes should be mailed
> > to
> > > +             openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
> > > b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
> > > index 0438d9a905ce..ef0a6ff69841 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c
> > > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> > >  
> > >  #define ASPEED_VUART_GCRA            0x20
> > >  #define ASPEED_VUART_GCRA_VUART_EN           BIT(0)
> > > +#define ASPEED_VUART_GCRA_HOST_SIRQ_POLARITY BIT(1)
> > >  #define ASPEED_VUART_GCRA_DISABLE_HOST_TX_DISCARD BIT(5)
> > >  #define ASPEED_VUART_GCRB            0x24
> > >  #define ASPEED_VUART_GCRB_HOST_SIRQ_MASK     GENMASK(7, 4)
> > > @@ -131,8 +132,46 @@ static ssize_t sirq_store(struct device
> > *dev,
> > > struct device_attribute *attr,
> > >  
> > >  static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(sirq);
> > >  
> > > +static ssize_t sirq_polarity_show(struct device *dev,
> > > +                               struct device_attribute *attr,
> > char
> > > *buf)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct aspeed_vuart *vuart = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > +     u8 reg;
> > > +
> > > +     reg = readb(vuart->regs + ASPEED_VUART_GCRA);
> > > +     reg &= ASPEED_VUART_GCRA_HOST_SIRQ_POLARITY;
> > > +
> > > +     return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1, "%u\n", reg ? 1 : 0);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static ssize_t sirq_polarity_store(struct device *dev,
> > > +                                struct device_attribute *attr,
> > > +                                const char *buf, size_t count)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct aspeed_vuart *vuart = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > +     unsigned long val;
> > > +     int err;
> > > +     u8 reg;
> > > +
> > > +     err = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val);
> > > +     if (err)
> > > +             return err;
> > > +
> > > +     reg = readb(vuart->regs + ASPEED_VUART_GCRA);
> > > +     if (val != 0)
> > > +             reg |= ASPEED_VUART_GCRA_HOST_SIRQ_POLARITY;
> > > +     else
> > > +             reg &= ~ASPEED_VUART_GCRA_HOST_SIRQ_POLARITY;
> > > +     writeb(reg, vuart->regs + ASPEED_VUART_GCRA);
> > > +
> > > +     return count;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(sirq_polarity);
> > > +
> > >  static struct attribute *aspeed_vuart_attrs[] = {
> > >       &dev_attr_sirq.attr,
> > > +     &dev_attr_sirq_polarity.attr,
> > >       &dev_attr_lpc_address.attr,
> > >       NULL,
> > >  };
> > 



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