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[v2] tty: serial: imx: Handle RS485 DE signal active high

Message ID 20220929144400.13571-1-marex@denx.de
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Series [v2] tty: serial: imx: Handle RS485 DE signal active high | expand

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Marek Vasut Sept. 29, 2022, 2:44 p.m. UTC
The default polarity of RS485 DE signal is active high. This driver does
not handle such case properly. Currently, when a pin is multiplexed as a
UART CTS_B on boot, this pin is pulled HIGH by the i.MX UART CTS circuit,
which activates DE signal on the RS485 transceiver and thus behave as if
the RS485 was transmitting data, so the system blocks the RS485 bus when
it starts and until user application takes over. This behavior is not OK.
The problem consists of two separate parts.

First, the i.MX UART IP requires UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN to be set for
UCR2 CTSC and CTS bits to have any effect. The UCR2 CTSC bit permits the
driver to set CTS (RTS_B or RS485 DE signal) to either level sychronous
to the internal UART IP clock. Compared to other options, like GPIO CTS
control, this has the benefit of being synchronous to the UART IP clock
and thus without glitches or bus delays. The reason for the CTS design
is likely because when the Receiver is disabled, the UART IP can never
indicate that it is ready to receive data by assering CTS signal, so
the CTS is always pulled HIGH by default.

When the port is closed by user space, imx_uart_stop_rx() clears UCR2
RXEN bit, and imx_uart_shutdown() clears UCR1 UARTEN bit. This disables
UART Receiver and UART itself, and forces CTS signal HIGH, which leads
to the RS485 bus being blocked because RS485 DE is incorrectly active.

The proposed solution for this problem is to keep the Receiver running
even after the port is closed, but in loopback mode. This disconnects
the RX FIFO input from the RXD external signal, and since UCR2 TXEN is
cleared, the UART Transmitter is disabled, so nothing can feed data in
the RX FIFO. Because the Receiver is still enabled, the UCR2 CTSC and
CTS bits still have effect and the CTS (RS485 DE) control is retained.

Note that in case of RS485 DE signal active low, there is no problem and
no special handling is necessary. The CTS signal defaults to HIGH, thus
the RS485 is by default set to Receive and the bus is not blocked.

Note that while there is the possibility to control CTS using GPIO with
either CTS polarity, this has the downside of not being synchronous to
the UART IP clock and thus glitchy and susceptible to slow DE switching.

Second, on boot, before the UART driver probe callback is called, the
driver core triggers pinctrl_init_done() and configures the IOMUXC to
default state. At this point, UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN are both still
cleared, but UART CTS_B (RS485 DE) is configured as CTS function, thus
the RTS signal is pulled HIGH by the UART IP CTS circuit.

One part of the solution here is to enable UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN and
UTS loopback in this driver probe callback, thus unblocking the CTSC and
CTS control early on. But this is still too late, since the pin control
is already configured and CTS has been pulled HIGH for a short period
of time.

When Linux kernel boots and this driver is bound, the pin control is set
to special "init" state if the state is available, and driver can switch
the "default" state afterward when ready. This state can be used to set
the CTS line as a GPIO in DT temporarily, and a GPIO hog can force such
GPIO to LOW, thus keeping the RS485 DE line LOW early on boot. Once the
driver takes over and UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN and UTS loopback are all
enabled, the driver can switch to "default" pin control state and control
the CTS line as function instead. DT binding example is below:

"
&gpio6 {
  rts-init-hog {
    gpio-hog;
    gpios = <5 0>;
    output-low;
    line-name = "rs485-de";
  };
};

&uart5 { /* DHCOM UART2 */
  pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart5>;
  pinctrl-1 = <&pinctrl_uart5_init>;
  pinctrl-names = "default", "init";
  ...
};
pinctrl_uart5_init: uart5-init-grp {
  fsl,pins = <
...
    MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT19__GPIO6_IO05       0x30b1
  >;
};

pinctrl_uart5: uart5-grp {
  fsl,pins = <
...
    MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT19__UART5_CTS_B      0x30b1
  >;
};
"

Tested-by: Christoph Niedermaier <cniedermaier@dh-electronics.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
---
Cc: Christoph Niedermaier <cniedermaier@dh-electronics.com>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: kernel@dh-electronics.com
Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
---
V2: - Add code comments per input from Uwe
    - Add TB from Christoph
---
 drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Fabio Estevam Sept. 29, 2022, 4:21 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Marek,

Thanks for the detailed commit log.

Only some nits below:

On 29/09/2022 11:44, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The default polarity of RS485 DE signal is active high. This driver 
> does
> not handle such case properly. Currently, when a pin is multiplexed as 
> a
> UART CTS_B on boot, this pin is pulled HIGH by the i.MX UART CTS 
> circuit,
> which activates DE signal on the RS485 transceiver and thus behave as 
> if

s/behave/behaves

> the RS485 was transmitting data, so the system blocks the RS485 bus 
> when
> it starts and until user application takes over. This behavior is not 
> OK.
> The problem consists of two separate parts.
> 
> First, the i.MX UART IP requires UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN to be set 
> for
> UCR2 CTSC and CTS bits to have any effect. The UCR2 CTSC bit permits 
> the
> driver to set CTS (RTS_B or RS485 DE signal) to either level sychronous
> to the internal UART IP clock. Compared to other options, like GPIO CTS
> control, this has the benefit of being synchronous to the UART IP clock
> and thus without glitches or bus delays. The reason for the CTS design
> is likely because when the Receiver is disabled, the UART IP can never
> indicate that it is ready to receive data by assering CTS signal, so

s/assering/asserting

> the CTS is always pulled HIGH by default.
> 
> When the port is closed by user space, imx_uart_stop_rx() clears UCR2
> RXEN bit, and imx_uart_shutdown() clears UCR1 UARTEN bit. This disables
> UART Receiver and UART itself, and forces CTS signal HIGH, which leads
> to the RS485 bus being blocked because RS485 DE is incorrectly active.
> 
> The proposed solution for this problem is to keep the Receiver running
> even after the port is closed, but in loopback mode. This disconnects
> the RX FIFO input from the RXD external signal, and since UCR2 TXEN is
> cleared, the UART Transmitter is disabled, so nothing can feed data in
> the RX FIFO. Because the Receiver is still enabled, the UCR2 CTSC and
> CTS bits still have effect and the CTS (RS485 DE) control is retained.
> 
> Note that in case of RS485 DE signal active low, there is no problem 
> and
> no special handling is necessary. The CTS signal defaults to HIGH, thus
> the RS485 is by default set to Receive and the bus is not blocked.
> 
> Note that while there is the possibility to control CTS using GPIO with
> either CTS polarity, this has the downside of not being synchronous to
> the UART IP clock and thus glitchy and susceptible to slow DE 
> switching.
> 
> Second, on boot, before the UART driver probe callback is called, the
> driver core triggers pinctrl_init_done() and configures the IOMUXC to
> default state. At this point, UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN are both still
> cleared, but UART CTS_B (RS485 DE) is configured as CTS function, thus
> the RTS signal is pulled HIGH by the UART IP CTS circuit.
> 
> One part of the solution here is to enable UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN 
> and
> UTS loopback in this driver probe callback, thus unblocking the CTSC 
> and
> CTS control early on. But this is still too late, since the pin control
> is already configured and CTS has been pulled HIGH for a short period
> of time.
> 
> When Linux kernel boots and this driver is bound, the pin control is 
> set
> to special "init" state if the state is available, and driver can 
> switch
> the "default" state afterward when ready. This state can be used to set
> the CTS line as a GPIO in DT temporarily, and a GPIO hog can force such
> GPIO to LOW, thus keeping the RS485 DE line LOW early on boot. Once the
> driver takes over and UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN and UTS loopback are 
> all
> enabled, the driver can switch to "default" pin control state and 
> control
> the CTS line as function instead. DT binding example is below:
> 
> "
> &gpio6 {
>   rts-init-hog {
>     gpio-hog;
>     gpios = <5 0>;
>     output-low;
>     line-name = "rs485-de";
>   };
> };
> 
> &uart5 { /* DHCOM UART2 */
>   pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart5>;
>   pinctrl-1 = <&pinctrl_uart5_init>;
>   pinctrl-names = "default", "init";
>   ...
> };
> pinctrl_uart5_init: uart5-init-grp {
>   fsl,pins = <
> ...
>     MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT19__GPIO6_IO05       0x30b1
>   >;
> };
> 
> pinctrl_uart5: uart5-grp {
>   fsl,pins = <
> ...
>     MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT19__UART5_CTS_B      0x30b1
>   >;
> };
> "
> 
> Tested-by: Christoph Niedermaier <cniedermaier@dh-electronics.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
Heiko Schocher Nov. 16, 2022, 2:48 p.m. UTC | #2
Hello Marek,

On 29.09.22 16:44, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The default polarity of RS485 DE signal is active high. This driver does
> not handle such case properly. Currently, when a pin is multiplexed as a
> UART CTS_B on boot, this pin is pulled HIGH by the i.MX UART CTS circuit,
> which activates DE signal on the RS485 transceiver and thus behave as if
> the RS485 was transmitting data, so the system blocks the RS485 bus when
> it starts and until user application takes over. This behavior is not OK.
> The problem consists of two separate parts.
> 
> First, the i.MX UART IP requires UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN to be set for
> UCR2 CTSC and CTS bits to have any effect. The UCR2 CTSC bit permits the
> driver to set CTS (RTS_B or RS485 DE signal) to either level sychronous
> to the internal UART IP clock. Compared to other options, like GPIO CTS
> control, this has the benefit of being synchronous to the UART IP clock
> and thus without glitches or bus delays. The reason for the CTS design
> is likely because when the Receiver is disabled, the UART IP can never
> indicate that it is ready to receive data by assering CTS signal, so
> the CTS is always pulled HIGH by default.
> 
> When the port is closed by user space, imx_uart_stop_rx() clears UCR2
> RXEN bit, and imx_uart_shutdown() clears UCR1 UARTEN bit. This disables
> UART Receiver and UART itself, and forces CTS signal HIGH, which leads
> to the RS485 bus being blocked because RS485 DE is incorrectly active.
> 
> The proposed solution for this problem is to keep the Receiver running
> even after the port is closed, but in loopback mode. This disconnects
> the RX FIFO input from the RXD external signal, and since UCR2 TXEN is
> cleared, the UART Transmitter is disabled, so nothing can feed data in
> the RX FIFO. Because the Receiver is still enabled, the UCR2 CTSC and
> CTS bits still have effect and the CTS (RS485 DE) control is retained.
> 
> Note that in case of RS485 DE signal active low, there is no problem and
> no special handling is necessary. The CTS signal defaults to HIGH, thus
> the RS485 is by default set to Receive and the bus is not blocked.
> 
> Note that while there is the possibility to control CTS using GPIO with
> either CTS polarity, this has the downside of not being synchronous to
> the UART IP clock and thus glitchy and susceptible to slow DE switching.
> 
> Second, on boot, before the UART driver probe callback is called, the
> driver core triggers pinctrl_init_done() and configures the IOMUXC to
> default state. At this point, UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN are both still
> cleared, but UART CTS_B (RS485 DE) is configured as CTS function, thus
> the RTS signal is pulled HIGH by the UART IP CTS circuit.
> 
> One part of the solution here is to enable UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN and
> UTS loopback in this driver probe callback, thus unblocking the CTSC and
> CTS control early on. But this is still too late, since the pin control
> is already configured and CTS has been pulled HIGH for a short period
> of time.
> 
> When Linux kernel boots and this driver is bound, the pin control is set
> to special "init" state if the state is available, and driver can switch
> the "default" state afterward when ready. This state can be used to set
> the CTS line as a GPIO in DT temporarily, and a GPIO hog can force such
> GPIO to LOW, thus keeping the RS485 DE line LOW early on boot. Once the
> driver takes over and UCR1 UARTEN and UCR2 RXEN and UTS loopback are all
> enabled, the driver can switch to "default" pin control state and control
> the CTS line as function instead. DT binding example is below:
> 
> "
> &gpio6 {
>   rts-init-hog {
>     gpio-hog;
>     gpios = <5 0>;
>     output-low;
>     line-name = "rs485-de";
>   };
> };
> 
> &uart5 { /* DHCOM UART2 */
>   pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_uart5>;
>   pinctrl-1 = <&pinctrl_uart5_init>;
>   pinctrl-names = "default", "init";
>   ...
> };
> pinctrl_uart5_init: uart5-init-grp {
>   fsl,pins = <
> ...
>     MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT19__GPIO6_IO05       0x30b1
>   >;
> };
> 
> pinctrl_uart5: uart5-grp {
>   fsl,pins = <
> ...
>     MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT19__UART5_CTS_B      0x30b1
>   >;
> };
> "
> 
> Tested-by: Christoph Niedermaier <cniedermaier@dh-electronics.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
> ---
> Cc: Christoph Niedermaier <cniedermaier@dh-electronics.com>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@denx.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>
> Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: kernel@dh-electronics.com
> Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> V2: - Add code comments per input from Uwe
>     - Add TB from Christoph
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Thank! Successfully tested on an imx8mp based board.

Tested-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>

bye,
Heiko
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
index 05b432dc7a85c..18f5da561f4a1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@  static void imx_uart_stop_tx(struct uart_port *port)
 static void imx_uart_stop_rx(struct uart_port *port)
 {
 	struct imx_port *sport = (struct imx_port *)port;
-	u32 ucr1, ucr2, ucr4;
+	u32 ucr1, ucr2, ucr4, uts;
 
 	ucr1 = imx_uart_readl(sport, UCR1);
 	ucr2 = imx_uart_readl(sport, UCR2);
@@ -505,7 +505,18 @@  static void imx_uart_stop_rx(struct uart_port *port)
 	imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr1, UCR1);
 	imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr4, UCR4);
 
-	ucr2 &= ~UCR2_RXEN;
+	/* See SER_RS485_ENABLED/UTS_LOOP comment in imx_uart_probe() */
+	if (port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED &&
+	    port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND &&
+	    sport->have_rtscts && !sport->have_rtsgpio) {
+		uts = imx_uart_readl(sport, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+		uts |= UTS_LOOP;
+		imx_uart_writel(sport, uts, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+		ucr2 |= UCR2_RXEN;
+	} else {
+		ucr2 &= ~UCR2_RXEN;
+	}
+
 	imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr2, UCR2);
 }
 
@@ -1393,7 +1404,7 @@  static int imx_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 	int retval, i;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int dma_is_inited = 0;
-	u32 ucr1, ucr2, ucr3, ucr4;
+	u32 ucr1, ucr2, ucr3, ucr4, uts;
 
 	retval = clk_prepare_enable(sport->clk_per);
 	if (retval)
@@ -1498,6 +1509,11 @@  static int imx_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 		imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr2, UCR2);
 	}
 
+	/* See SER_RS485_ENABLED/UTS_LOOP comment in imx_uart_probe() */
+	uts = imx_uart_readl(sport, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+	uts &= ~UTS_LOOP;
+	imx_uart_writel(sport, uts, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sport->port.lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1507,7 +1523,7 @@  static void imx_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
 {
 	struct imx_port *sport = (struct imx_port *)port;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	u32 ucr1, ucr2, ucr4;
+	u32 ucr1, ucr2, ucr4, uts;
 
 	if (sport->dma_is_enabled) {
 		dmaengine_terminate_sync(sport->dma_chan_tx);
@@ -1551,7 +1567,18 @@  static void imx_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&sport->port.lock, flags);
 
 	ucr1 = imx_uart_readl(sport, UCR1);
-	ucr1 &= ~(UCR1_TRDYEN | UCR1_RRDYEN | UCR1_RTSDEN | UCR1_UARTEN | UCR1_RXDMAEN | UCR1_ATDMAEN);
+	ucr1 &= ~(UCR1_TRDYEN | UCR1_RRDYEN | UCR1_RTSDEN | UCR1_RXDMAEN | UCR1_ATDMAEN);
+	/* See SER_RS485_ENABLED/UTS_LOOP comment in imx_uart_probe() */
+	if (port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED &&
+	    port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND &&
+	    sport->have_rtscts && !sport->have_rtsgpio) {
+		uts = imx_uart_readl(sport, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+		uts |= UTS_LOOP;
+		imx_uart_writel(sport, uts, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+		ucr1 |= UCR1_UARTEN;
+	} else {
+		ucr1 &= ~UCR1_UARTEN;
+	}
 	imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr1, UCR1);
 
 	ucr4 = imx_uart_readl(sport, UCR4);
@@ -2213,7 +2240,7 @@  static int imx_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	void __iomem *base;
 	u32 dma_buf_conf[2];
 	int ret = 0;
-	u32 ucr1;
+	u32 ucr1, ucr2, uts;
 	struct resource *res;
 	int txirq, rxirq, rtsirq;
 
@@ -2350,6 +2377,31 @@  static int imx_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	ucr1 &= ~(UCR1_ADEN | UCR1_TRDYEN | UCR1_IDEN | UCR1_RRDYEN | UCR1_RTSDEN);
 	imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr1, UCR1);
 
+	/*
+	 * In case RS485 is enabled without GPIO RTS control, the UART IP
+	 * is used to control CTS signal. Keep both the UART and Receiver
+	 * enabled, otherwise the UART IP pulls CTS signal always HIGH no
+	 * matter how the UCR2 CTSC and CTS bits are set. To prevent any
+	 * data from being fed into the RX FIFO, enable loopback mode in
+	 * UTS register, which disconnects the RX path from external RXD
+	 * pin and connects it to the Transceiver, which is disabled, so
+	 * no data can be fed to the RX FIFO that way.
+	 */
+	if (sport->port.rs485.flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED &&
+	    sport->have_rtscts && !sport->have_rtsgpio) {
+		uts = imx_uart_readl(sport, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+		uts |= UTS_LOOP;
+		imx_uart_writel(sport, uts, imx_uart_uts_reg(sport));
+
+		ucr1 = imx_uart_readl(sport, UCR1);
+		ucr1 |= UCR1_UARTEN;
+		imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr1, UCR1);
+
+		ucr2 = imx_uart_readl(sport, UCR2);
+		ucr2 |= UCR2_RXEN;
+		imx_uart_writel(sport, ucr2, UCR2);
+	}
+
 	if (!imx_uart_is_imx1(sport) && sport->dte_mode) {
 		/*
 		 * The DCEDTE bit changes the direction of DSR, DCD, DTR and RI