serial: imx-serial - update UART IMX driver to use cyclic DMA
The IMX UART has a 32 bytes HW buffer which can be filled up in 2777us at 115200 baud or 80us at 4Mbaud (supported by IMX53). Taking this in consideration there is a good probability to lose data because of the DMA startup latency. Our tests (explained below) indicates a latency up to 4400us when creating interrupt load and ~70us without. When creating interrupt load I was able to see continuous overrun errors by checking serial driver statistics using the command: `cat /proc/tty/driver/IMX-uart`. Replace manual restart of DMA with cyclic DMA to eliminate data loss due to DMA engine startup latency (similar approch to atmel_serial.c driver). As result the DMA engine will start on the first serial data transfer and stops only when serial port is closed. Tests environment: Using the m53evk board I have used a GPIO for profiling the IMX serial driver. - The RX line and GPIO were connected to oscilloscope. - Run a small test program on the m53evk board that will only open and read data from ttymxc2 port. - Connect the ttymxc2 port to my laptop using a USB serial converter where another test program is running, able to send configurable packet lengths and intervals. - Serial ports configured at 115200 8N1. - Interrupts load created by disconnecting/connecting (3s interval) a USB hub, using a digital switch, with 4 USB devices (USB-Serial converter, USB SD card, etc) connected. (around 160 interrupts/second generated) - The GPIO was toggled HI in the `imx_int` when USR1_RRDY or USR1_AGTIM events are received and toggled back, once the DMA configuration is finalized, at the end of `imx_dma_rxint`. Measurements: The measurements were done from the end of the last byte (RX line) until the GPIO was toggled back LOW. Note: The GPIO toggling was done using `gpiod_set_value` method. Tests performed: 1. Sending 9 bytes packets at 8ms interval. Having the 9 bytes packets will activate the RRDY threshold event and IMX serial interrupt called. Results: - DMA start latency (interrupt start latency + DMA configuration) consistently 70us when system not loaded. - DMA start latency up to 4400us when system loaded. 2. Sending 40 bytes packet at 8mS interval. Results with load: - Able to observe overruns by running: `watch -n1 cat /proc/tty/driver/IMX-uart` Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@collabora.com> Acked-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Nandor Han <nandor.han@ge.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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