Re: g_NCR5380 PDMA, was Re: [PATCH 0/6] ncr5380: Miscellaneous minor patches

[Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Ondrej Zary wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 January 2017 02:31:45 Finn Thain wrote:
> [...]
> > Are you trying to figure out which commands are going to disconnect 
> > during a transfer? This is really a function of the firmware in the 
> > target; there are no good heuristics AFAICT, so the PDMA algorithm has 
> > to be robust. mac_scsi has to cope with this too.
> >
> > Does the problem go away when you assign no IRQ? When instance->irq == 
> > NO_IRQ, the core driver will inhibit disconnect privileges.
> 
> Yes, it seems to run fine with IRQ/disconnect disabled. With IRQ 
> enabled, "dd if=/dev/sr0 of=anything" stops after a while.

When you say "stops", do you mean an infinite loop in 
generic_NCR5380_pread or does the loop complete (which would presumably 
leave the target stuck in DATA IN phase, and a scsi command timeout would 
probably follow after 30 seconds...)

> I get gated 53C80 IRQ, BASR=0x10, MODE=0x0e, STATUS=0x7c.
> 

You can use NCR5380_print() to get a decoded register dump.

When I decode the above values I get,

BASR   = 0x10 = BASR_IRQ
MODE   = 0x0e = MR_ENABLE_EOP_INTR | MR_MONITOR_BSY | MR_DMA_MODE
STATUS = 0x7c = SR_BSY | SR_REQ | SR_MSG | SR_CD | SR_IO

Since BASR_PHASE_MATCH is not set, the interrupt is almost certainly a 
phase mismatch. The new phase is SR_MSG | SR_CD | SR_IO = PHASE_MSGIN, 
which shows that the target has given up on the DATA IN phase and is 
presumably trying to send a DISCONNECT message.

> When I enable interrupts during PDMA (like the removed UNSAFE macro 
> did), the problems go away. I see an IRQ after each pread call.

You shouldn't need an interrupt, because NCR5380_dma_complete() gets 
called regardless. AFAICT, the only difference is the timing, which 
becomes less predictable. Calling spinlock_irq_restore() before the 
transfer seems to create a race condition between hostdata->dma_len store 
and load.

I think that the pread call has not yet returned when the interrupt fires 
and NCR5380_dma_complete() is called. Hence hostdata->dma_len has not yet 
been initialized. So when NCR5380_dma_complete() is called by the 
interrupt handler, SCp.this_residual will not change at all because 
hostdata->dma_len is still zero.

> (had to disable "no 53C80 gated irq after transfer" and "no end dma 
> signal" messages to reduce log spam)
> 

That may provide a quick way to detect the failed PDMA transfer, at least 
for testing purposes. There may be a more conclusive test for a partial 
transfer.

We could to implement something like macscsi_dma_residual() to take care 
of a failed PDMA transfer. That way, the failure can be taken into account 
when NCR5380_dma_complete() is called at the end of the transfer.

See patch below for example. It should confirm the theory above though it 
really needs some timeouts added (NCR5380_poll_politely()). And perhaps we 
could do something more clever than retry indefinitely, though we can 
still rely on the command timeout.

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c b/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c
index 6f9665d..75cfaf3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c
@@ -497,15 +497,17 @@ static inline int generic_NCR5380_pread(struct NCR5380_hostdata *hostdata,
 		blocks--;
 	}
 
+	hostdata->pdma_residual = 0;
+
 	if (!(NCR5380_read(hostdata->c400_ctl_status) & CSR_GATED_53C80_IRQ))
-		printk("53C400r: no 53C80 gated irq after transfer");
+		hostdata->pdma_residual = hostdata->dma_len;
 
 	/* wait for 53C80 registers to be available */
 	while (!(NCR5380_read(hostdata->c400_ctl_status) & CSR_53C80_REG))
 		;
 
 	if (!(NCR5380_read(BUS_AND_STATUS_REG) & BASR_END_DMA_TRANSFER))
-		printk(KERN_ERR "53C400r: no end dma signal\n");
+		hostdata->pdma_residual = hostdata->dma_len;
 		
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -576,12 +578,14 @@ static inline int generic_NCR5380_pwrite(struct NCR5380_hostdata *hostdata,
 		/* FIXME - no timeout */
 	}
 
-	if (!(NCR5380_read(BUS_AND_STATUS_REG) & BASR_END_DMA_TRANSFER)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "53C400w: no end dma signal\n");
-	}
+	hostdata->pdma_residual = 0;
+
+	if (!(NCR5380_read(BUS_AND_STATUS_REG) & BASR_END_DMA_TRANSFER))
+		hostdata->pdma_residual = hostdata->dma_len;
 
 	while (!(NCR5380_read(TARGET_COMMAND_REG) & TCR_LAST_BYTE_SENT))
 		; 	// TIMEOUT
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -607,6 +611,11 @@ static int generic_NCR5380_dma_xfer_len(struct NCR5380_hostdata *hostdata,
 	return transfersize;
 }
 
+static int generic_NCR5380_dma_residual(struct NCR5380_hostdata *hostdata)
+{
+	return hostdata->pdma_residual;
+}
+
 /*
  *	Include the NCR5380 core code that we build our driver around	
  */
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.h b/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.h
index 81b22d9..08c91b7 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.h
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
 	int c400_ctl_status; \
 	int c400_blk_cnt; \
 	int c400_host_buf; \
-	int io_width;
+	int io_width; \
+	int pdma_residual;
 
 #define NCR53C400_mem_base 0x3880
 #define NCR53C400_host_buffer 0x3900
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@
 #define NCR5380_dma_xfer_len		generic_NCR5380_dma_xfer_len
 #define NCR5380_dma_recv_setup		generic_NCR5380_pread
 #define NCR5380_dma_send_setup		generic_NCR5380_pwrite
-#define NCR5380_dma_residual		NCR5380_dma_residual_none
+#define NCR5380_dma_residual		generic_NCR5380_dma_residual
 
 #define NCR5380_intr generic_NCR5380_intr
 #define NCR5380_queue_command generic_NCR5380_queue_command

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