[Gta04-owner] Further 3.17 kernel development for GTA04

Mon Nov 3 22:50:00 CET 2014

On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 22:25:46 +0100 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller"
<hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> Am 03.11.2014 um 20:04 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> 
> > Hi Neil,
> > 
> > Am 03.11.2014 um 14:44 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> > 
> >> Hi Neil,
> >> 
> >> Am 03.11.2014 um 08:36 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Am 03.11.2014 um 08:27 schrieb NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>:
> >>> 
> >>>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 07:57:00 +0100 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller"
> >>>> <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Am 03.11.2014 um 07:44 schrieb NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 07:00:42 +0100 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller"
> >>>>>> <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Am 02.11.2014 um 10:51 schrieb NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>:
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I've made some useful progress.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Nearly all the things that I need regularly work.  So I can make phone calls
> >>>>>>>> (on the GTA04a4, not on the a3),
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> ah, did you solve the ALSA sound driver issues?
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> What ALSA sound driver issues?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Proper device tree based Tri-State control for McBSP to switch between hardware and
> >>>>> software routing.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/issues/587/
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> And, I had to disable something because I got kernel panics.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Which sound system did you use? ti,omap-twl4030 or goldelico,gta04-audio?
> >>>> 
> >>>> I don't have the goldelico one at all.  Just ti,omap-twl4030 with some
> >>>> modification to support an external device connected to the voice port.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> The first one should work out of the box and the second one fails.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> use the wifi, charge the battery and
> >>>>>>>> monitor its status, and turn the GPS on/off using my new approach.  There is
> >>>>>>>> no-longer an ‘rfkill' for GPS - opening /dev/ttyO1 does all that is needed.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Hm. I am not happy that there is no rfkill. Well, someone commented that
> >>>>>>> GPS is not a transmitter, but Linux provides the rfkill gps switch (and we have
> >>>>>>> not introduced it). And, basically the antenna amplifier might transmit (if it runs
> >>>>>>> out of control) so it is safer in an airplane situation to be able to turn off the
> >>>>>>> LNA power explicitly. But keep gpsd and tangogps running. A user might
> >>>>>>> be just looking into local maps.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> It can be added back if it is really needed.
> >>>>>> It always thought it was a bit odd as rfkill is, like you say, primarily
> >>>>>> about transmitters.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I'd like to know if anyone else is using a 'gps' rfkill  ... I couldn't find
> >>>>>> any documentation or useful references last time I looked.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I don’t know either, but that nobody might have to solve the same problem
> >>>>> as we have to solve.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I'm not entirely happy with this code yet but it is quite usable.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Suspend seems to work reliably, but power usage is way too high - about
> >>>>>>>> 50mA.  There are hints in some patches in 3.18-rc, so USB might be to blame
> >>>>>>>> for some of that extra usage, so I'll probably be looking that that when I
> >>>>>>>> next get some time.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> My kernel doesn't currently "export" the various GPIOs that need to be
> >>>>>>>> manually poked.
> >>>>>>>> I have this code:
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> for l in 186,high 175,high 23,low 21,high
> >>>>>>>> do
> >>>>>>>> g=${l%,*}
> >>>>>>>> echo $g > /sys/class/gpio/export
> >>>>>>>> echo ${l#*,} > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$g/direction
> >>>>>>>> done
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> in an init.d script which sets some of these up.  GPIO186 is particularly
> >>>>>>>> needed for turning the GSM modem on.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> What are these gpios good for? The modem should be controlled through
> >>>>>>> rfkill wwan. For this we have prepared a special driver in the gta04-kernel that
> >>>>>>> pulses the modem gpio in a similar way as for GPS (there is no UART we can
> >>>>>>> use to auto-control modem power).
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> A driver which I obviously don't have.  I'll try to look at it when I get a
> >>>>>> chance.
> >>>>>> My user-space code wants to poke the gpio, so I provided it.
> >>>>>> The others I just provided to I could be certain they were in the correct
> >>>>>> position for low power usage.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I've re-organised my tree as a set of topic branch, mostly based on
> >>>>>>>> v3.17, though the 'dts' branch with device-tree changes is based on
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap
> >>>>>>>> tag omap-for-v3.17/dt-gta04
> >>>>>>>> which has some gta04 stuff that didn't quite make 3.17 - is in 3.18-rc1
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> The branches are:
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 'dts', 'hdq', 'dss', 'pwm-old', 'input', 'hacks', 'wifi', 'extcon', 'itg',
> >>>>>>>> ‘tty-slave', 'audio', 'twl4030' and 'charger'
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> the hdq patch (there is a missing/wrong compatible entry in the driver) 
> >>>>>>> appears to be the last missing piece we have to make it working .
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Does it work for you? I see it start up and read the bq27000 several times,
> >>>>>>> but ca. 4.5 seconds after kernel startup it stops. I suspect some IRQ
> >>>>>>> interference (maybe from a subsystem that you do not have).
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> It works very reliably for me.
> >>>>>> The behaviour you describe is vaguely reminiscent of problems I was having
> >>>>>> ages ago which were due to runtime PM issues with the hdq driver.  I think
> >>>>>> the fixes went upstream, possibly
> >>>>>> commit c354a86484b61e32100eb94c1f3f0aa512958cee
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Looking at my mail records, the issue was fixed in 3.6.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> There was one time recently when reads from one of the sysfs bq27000 files started
> >>>>>> returning ENXIO (or maybe ENODEV), but it hasn't happened again.  I'll keep an eye
> >>>>>> out for problems.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> It is indeed strange. I have added some printk to report hdq write&read and timeouts:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> [    3.894470] omapfb omapfb: no displays
> >>>>> [    3.899444] omapfb omapfb: failed to setup omapfb
> >>>>> [    3.904449] platform omapfb: Driver omapfb requests probe deferral
> >>>>> [    3.912017] platform 4806a000.serial: Driver omap_uart requests probe deferral
> >>>>> [    3.920532] platform 4806c000.serial: Driver omap_uart requests probe deferral
> >>>>> [    3.929016] platform 480b4000.mmc: Driver omap_hsmmc requests probe deferral
> >>>>> [    3.938201] ALSA device list:
> >>>>> [    3.941314]   No soundcards found.
> >>>>> [    3.947357] hdq_write_byte(00000027) ok
> >>>>> [    3.951568] hdq_read_byte -> 00
> >>>>> [    4.148071] hdq_write_byte timeout
> >>>>> [    4.350708] hdq_read_byte timeout
> >>>>> [    4.548431] hdq_write_byte timeout
> >>>>> [    4.748565] hdq_read_byte timeout
> >>>>> [    4.948394] hdq_write_byte timeout
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I suspect some other subsystem might be influencing interrupts.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Something to locate by disabling one driver after the other…
> >>>> 
> >>>> Can't explain that.  Both my A3 and A4 boards work.
> >>>> Maybe watch ‘grep hdq /proc/interrupts' and see if it changes at all.
> >>> 
> >>> It says :
> >>> 
> >>> 235:         22      INTC  58  omap_hdq
> >>> 
> >>> and does not change if I try to cat /sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/voltage_now
> >>> 
> >>> So indeed someone is blocking these interrupts. Now I have to identify that “someone” first,
> >>> but it is easier with a good test case.
> >> 
> >> Looks as if I have found it, although I have really no explanation.
> >> 
> >> It appears to be related to the DTR patch to omap-serial.c that we have (I think inherited from
> >> kernel 3.7) to control the virtual GPIO of the w2sg driver. If I checkout the latest from linus/3.18-rc2, hdq works.
> >> 
> >> Of course GPS does not work any more, because the DTR control is then missing.
> >> 
> >> It appears to be sufficient to add/remove that patch (which is not in mainline Linux - just in
> >> our 3.18-rc2 and therefore you have no chance to see this effect) to start/stop HDQ interrupts.
> >> 
> >> I will report if I get a better understanding why this DTR code can interfere with HDQ and
> >> which line(s) of code makes the difference.
> > 
> > After a lot of trial and error, I still don’t understand it. But it appears to have something to do
> > with the UART3 + console handling. There is one line in the driver where the DTR gpio is derived
> > from the device tree.
> > 
> > If I keep it as is (it reads the “dtr-gpio” property from the DT), we have serial and GPS, but the hdq hangup.
> > If I force this gpio to 0, hdq works, but the console output goes to the LCD (I have never seen that before), and we have no GPS.
> > If I force it to -ENOENT (which is equivalent to a DT definition with missing dtr-gpio specification), we have serial and hdq, but no GPS.
> > If I force it to -EPROBE_DEFER, console goes to LCD. There is no GPS, hdq does not work.
> > 
> > Now, I guess our DTR patch interferes with the takeover of UART3 by this driver. Or alternatively,
> > that deferred probing in omap_serial has some side-effect for UART0 or UART1.
> 
> after some more tests I am quite sure that the problem is deferred probing of uart drivers.
> 
> If I disable the return -EPROBE_DEFER paths [2] in serial_omap_probe() hdq works (and GPS fails).
> If I enable them, hdq fails and GPS works (if configured).

Based on that evidence, it could be that the GPS interferes with HDQ.

> 
> So it looks as if serial_omap_probe() is not robust for deferred probing (although we have only more
> or less copied code from the RS485 RTS gpio stuff to get the DTR gpio).
> 
> Or (I can’t decide) the sequence of successful UART probing must be UART1, 2, 3.
> 
> Any suggestions how to address this? Bug report on LKML (but I have no test case for LKML
> subscribers - only for GTA04 owners)?

You could set a global variable when UART3 is probed, and EPROBE_DEFER UART2
until that variable is set.  But still disable the linkage with GPS.

If that causes a problem, the probe order is an issue.
If it doesn't then probably the GPS is the issue.

NeilBrown

> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 
> [1]: comment out these 4 lines and hdq works 
> 1705+1706: http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=blob;f=drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c;h=6398cb218b9fdd2b0551481a456f7b29ae809922;hb=refs/heads/3.18-rc2#l1705
> 1737+1738: http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=blob;f=drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c;h=6398cb218b9fdd2b0551481a456f7b29ae809922;hb=refs/heads/3.18-rc2#l1737
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