[PATCH] serial: serial_msm: Ensure BAM/single character mode are disabled

[Ramon Fried]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 9:59 PM Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 08:15:28PM +0300, Ramon Fried wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:40 AM Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > At the moment, the U-Boot serial_msm driver does not initialize the
> > > UART_DM_DMEN register with the required value. Usually this does not
> > > cause any problems, because there is Qualcomm's LK bootloader running
> > > before U-Boot which initializes the register with the correct value.
> > >
> > > It's important that this register is initialized correctly, because
> > > the U-Boot driver does not make use of the BAM/DMA or single character
> > > mode functionality of the UART controller. A different bootloader
> > > before U-Boot might initialize the register differently.
> > >
> > > For example, on DragonBoard 410c U-Boot can also be installed to the
> > > "aboot" partition (replacing LK entirely). In this case U-Boot is
> > > loaded directly by SBL, which seems to use the single-character mode
> > > for some reason. In single character mode there is always just one
> > > char in the FIFO, instead of the 4 characters expected by
> > > msm_serial_fetch(). It also causes issues with "earlycon" later in
> > > the Linux kernel, which tries to output 4 chars at once,
> > > but only the first char will be written.
> > >
> > > This causes early UART log in Linux to be corrupted like this:
> > >
> > >     [ 00ano:ameoi .Q1B[ 00ac _idaM00080oo'ahani-lcle._20). 15NdNii 5 SPMSJ20:U2
> > >     [ 00rkoolmsamel
> > >     [ 00Fw ]elamletopsioble
> > >     [ 00ore
> > >
> > > instead of
> > >
> > >     [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd030]
> > >     [    0.000000] Machine model: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC
> > >     [    0.000000] earlycon: msm_serial_dm0 at MMIO 0x00000000078b0000 (options '')
> > >     [    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [msm_serial_dm0] enabled
> > >
> > > Make sure to initialize UART_DM_DMEN correctly to fix this issue
> > > when loading U-Boot directly after SBL (instead of through LK).
> > >
> > > There is no functional difference when loading U-Boot through LK
> > > since LK also initializes UART_DM_DMEN to 0x0. [1]
> > >
> > > [1]: https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/lk.git/tree/platform/msm_shared/uart_dm.c?h=dragonboard410c-LA.BR.1.2.7-03810-8x16.0-linaro3#n203
> > >
> > > Cc: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev at gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  drivers/serial/serial_msm.c | 4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial_msm.c b/drivers/serial/serial_msm.c
> > > index d8c6c2f6b5..d8dd5c1104 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/serial/serial_msm.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/serial/serial_msm.c
> > > @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
> > >  /* Serial registers - this driver works in uartdm mode*/
> > >
> > >  #define UARTDM_DMRX             0x34 /* Max RX transfer length */
> > > +#define UARTDM_DMEN             0x3C /* DMA/data-packing mode */
> > >  #define UARTDM_NCF_TX           0x40 /* Number of chars to TX */
> > >
> > >  #define UARTDM_RXFS             0x50 /* RX channel status register */
> > > @@ -197,6 +198,9 @@ static void uart_dm_init(struct msm_serial_data *priv)
> > >         writel(MSM_BOOT_UART_DM_8_N_1_MODE, priv->base + UARTDM_MR2);
> > >         writel(MSM_BOOT_UART_DM_CMD_RESET_RX, priv->base + UARTDM_CR);
> > >         writel(MSM_BOOT_UART_DM_CMD_RESET_TX, priv->base + UARTDM_CR);
> > > +
> > > +       /* Make sure BAM/single character mode is disabled */
> > > +       writel(0x0, priv->base + UARTDM_DMEN);
> > >  }
> > >  static int msm_serial_probe(struct udevice *dev)
> > >  {
> > > --
> > > 2.32.0
> > >
> > Hi.
> > This is strange, I never encountered the behaviour, and I did boot
> > Linux after U-boot without LK in the way.
>
> It happens for me if the boot flow is SBL -> U-Boot -> Linux instead of
> SBL -> LK -> U-Boot -> Linux (The latter is the suggested setup
> according to dragonboard410c_defconfig and the dragonboard410c
> readme.txt, but I wanted to eliminate LK entirely).
>
> If you tried the same, perhaps you didn't have earlycon enabled?
> It also happens only during early boot with earlycon enabled
> ("earlycon" in kernel parameters). It stops happening later on boot
> when the kernel fully re-initializes the UART controller. (The idea of
> earlycon is to reuse the existing UART configuration to report errors
> that occur very early during boot.)
>
> Thanks,
> Stephan
It's interesting, I wanted to eliminate LK entirely, but I encountered
an error I couldn't understand.
You can run U-boot compiled to 64bit and 32bit, in 64bit the boot is
stuck for some reason, and Tom refused to merge a patch where a 32bit
U-boot would boot a 64bit Linux.
Did you compile U-boot for 64 or 32 ? How far did you get ?
Thnks,
Ramon