tty/serial: at91: fix hardware handshake on Atmel platforms
After commit 1cf6e8fc ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled"), the hardware handshake wasn't functional anymore on Atmel platforms (beside SAMA5D2). To understand why, one has to understand the flag ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS first: Before commit 1cf6e8fc ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled"), this flag was never set. Thus, the CTS/RTS where only handled by serial_core (and everything worked just fine). This commit introduced the use of the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag, enabling it for all boards when the user space enables flow control. When the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is set, the Atmel USART controller handles a part of the flow control job: - disable the transmitter when the CTS pin gets high. - drive the RTS pin high when the DMA buffer transfer is completed or PDC RX buffer full or RX FIFO is beyond threshold. (depending on the controller version). NB: This feature is *not* mandatory for the flow control to work. (Nevertheless, it's very useful if low latencies are needed.) Now, the specifics of the ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag: - For platforms with DMAC and no FIFOs (sam9x25, sam9x35, sama5D3, sama5D4, sam9g15, sam9g25, sam9g35)* this feature simply doesn't work. ( source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/7/598 ) Tested it on sam9g35, the RTS pins always stays up, even when RXEN=1 or a new DMA transfer descriptor is set. => ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS must not be used for those platforms - For platforms with a PDC (sam926{0,1,3}, sam9g10, sam9g20, sam9g45, sam9g46)*, there's another kind of problem. Once the flag ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS is set, the RTS pin can't be driven anymore via RTSEN/RTSDIS in USART Control Register. The RTS pin can only be driven by enabling/disabling the receiver or setting RCR=RNCR=0 in the PDC (Receive (Next) Counter Register). => Doing this is beyond the scope of this patch and could add other bugs, so the original (and working) behaviour should be set for those platforms (meaning ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag should be unset). - For platforms with a FIFO (sama5d2)*, the RTS pin is driven according to the RX FIFO thresholds, and can be also driven by RTSEN/RTSDIS in USART Control Register. No problem here. (This was the use case of commit 1cf6e8fc ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled")) NB: If the CTS pin declared as a GPIO in the DTS, (for instance cts-gpios = <&pioA PIN_PB31 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>), the transmitter will be disabled. => ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS flag can be set for this platform ONLY IF the CTS pin is not a GPIO. So, the only case when ATMEL_US_USMODE_HWHS can be enabled is when (atmel_use_fifo(port) && !mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(atmel_port->gpios, UART_GPIO_CTS)) Tested on all Atmel USART controller flavours: AT91SAM9G35-CM (DMAC flavour), AT91SAM9G20-EK (PDC flavour), SAMA5D2xplained (FIFO flavour). * the list may not be exhaustive Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.4+ (beware, missing atmel_port variable) Fixes: 1cf6e8fc ("tty/serial: at91: fix RTS line management when hardware handshake is enabled") Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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