Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest application reading from pl011 without device driver

[Jiahuan Zhang]

On 21 March 2017 at 17:59, Jiahuan Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 21 March 2017 at 17:50, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 21 March 2017 at 16:47, Jiahuan Zhang <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > The actual situation is, pl011_can_receive is returning false, the fifo
>> is
>> > full,   pl011_read does't start.
>> > At this moment, only pl011_can_recieve is keeping returning 0.
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>> OK, so the incoming data has filled up the FIFO, and the UART
>> is now sitting waiting for the guest to read the data...
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> Yes. And I think the guest reading can start when the fifo is nonempty.
> In the guest program, I first check the flag register, once the fifo is
> nonempty,
> then move on to read from the data register.
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> This works to read small data, smaller than 16 bytes.
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>> >>  * whether pl011_can_receive is returning true even with
>> >>    16 bytes in the fifo (hard to see how, given the code)
>> >>  * whether the fifo actually has fewer bytes in it because
>> >>    the guest is reading them
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>> > No, because the guest application does't get any data.
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>> ...so if the guest isn't getting any data that suggests it's
>> the guest code's bug (ie it is not actually reading out of
>> the FIFO).
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> What I found is pl011 expects to read all the data into fifo,
> though pl011_can_receive returns false.
> Only when all the data is read, pl011_read can start.
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The only thing I can consider about my guest application is the interrupt.
Since in pl011_put_fifo(),

*if* (s->read_count == s->read_trigger){

s->int_level |= PL011_INT_RX;

pl011_update(s);

}

I try to enable the interrupt in the guest program, but still not work.


>> thanks
>> -- PMM
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