atmel_serial: add DMA support

This patch is based on the DMA-patch by Chip Coldwell for the AT91/AT32 serial
USARTS, with some tweaks to make it apply neatly on top of the other patches
in this series.

The RX and TX code has been moved to a tasklet and reworked a bit.  Instead of
depending on the ENDRX and TIMEOUT bits in CSR, we simply grab as much data as
we can from the DMA buffers.  I think this closes a race where the ENDRX bit
is set after we read CSR but before we read RPR, although I haven't confirmed
this.

Similarly, the two TX handlers (ENDTX and TXBUFE) have been combined into one.
 Since the current code only uses a single TX buffer, there's no point in
handling those interrupts separately.

This also fixes a DMA sync bug in the original patch.

[linux@bohmer.net: rebased onto irq-splitup patch]
[hskinnemoen@atmel.com: moved to tasklet, fixed dma bug, misc cleanups]
[hskinnemoen@atmel.com: atmel_serial dma: Misc fixes and cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Tested-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
index 84a054d7e986..b82595cf13e8 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
@@ -380,6 +380,21 @@ config SERIAL_ATMEL_CONSOLE
           console is the device which receives all kernel messages and
           warnings and which allows logins in single user mode).
 
+config SERIAL_ATMEL_PDC
+        bool "Support DMA transfers on AT91 / AT32 serial port"
+        depends on SERIAL_ATMEL
+        default y
+        help
+          Say Y here if you wish to use the PDC to do DMA transfers to
+          and from the Atmel AT91 / AT32 serial port. In order to
+          actually use DMA transfers, make sure that the use_dma_tx
+          and use_dma_rx members in the atmel_uart_data struct is set
+          appropriately for each port.
+
+          Note that break and error handling currently doesn't work
+          properly when DMA is enabled. Make sure that ports where
+          this matters don't use DMA.
+
 config SERIAL_ATMEL_TTYAT
         bool "Install as device ttyATn instead of ttySn"
         depends on SERIAL_ATMEL=y