linux设备模型之uart驱动架构分析

一:前言
接着前面的终端控制台分析,接下来分析serial的驱动.在linux中,serial也对应着终端,通常被称为串口终端.在shell上,我们看到的/dev/ttyS*就是串口终端所对应的设备节点.
在分析具体的serial驱动之前.有必要先分析uart驱动架构.uart是Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter的缩写.翻译成中文即为”通用异步收发器”.它是串口设备驱动的封装层.

二:uart驱动架构概貌
如下图所示:


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上图中红色部份标识即为uart部份的操作.
从上图可以看到,uart设备是继tty_driver的又一层封装.实际上uart_driver就是对应tty_driver.在它的操作函数中,将操作转入uart_port.
在写操作的时候,先将数据放入一个叫做circ_buf的环形缓存区.然后uart_port从缓存区中取数据,将其写入到串口设备中.
当uart_port从serial设备接收到数据时,会将设备放入对应line discipline的缓存区中.
这样.用户在编写串口驱动的时候,只先要注册一个uart_driver.它的主要作用是定义设备节点号.然后将对设备的各项操作封装在uart_port.驱动工程师没必要关心上层的流程,只需按硬件规范将uart_port中的接口函数完成就可以了.

三:uart驱动中重要的数据结构及其关联
我们可以自己考虑下,基于上面的架构代码应该要怎么写.首先考虑以下几点:
1: 一个uart_driver通常会注册一段设备号.即在用户空间会看到uart_driver对应有多个设备节点.例如:
/dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1
每个设备节点是对应一个具体硬件的,从上面的架构来看,每个设备文件应该对应一个uart_port.
也就是说:uart_device怎么同多个uart_port关系起来?怎么去区分操作的是哪一个设备文件?

2:每个uart_port对应一个circ_buf,所以uart_port必须要和这个缓存区关系起来

回忆tty驱动架构中.tty_driver有一个叫成员指向一个数组,即tty->ttys.每个设备文件对应设数组中的一项.而这个数组所代码的数据结构为tty_struct. 相应的tty_struct会将tty_driver和ldisc关联起来.
那在uart驱动中,是否也可用相同的方式来处理呢?
将uart驱动常用的数据结构表示如下:


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结合上面提出的疑问.可以很清楚的看懂这些结构的设计.

四:uart_driver的注册操作
Uart_driver注册对应的函数为: uart_register_driver()代码如下:
int uart_register_driver(struct uart_driver *drv)
{
struct tty_driver *normal = NULL;
int i, retval;

BUG_ON(drv->state);

/*
* Maybe we should be using a slab cache for this, especially if
* we have a large number of ports to handle.
*/
drv->state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct uart_state) * drv->nr, GFP_KERNEL);
retval = -ENOMEM;
if (!drv->state)
goto out;

normal = alloc_tty_driver(drv->nr);
if (!normal)
goto out;

drv->tty_driver = normal;

normal->owner = drv->owner;
normal->driver_name = drv->driver_name;
normal->name = drv->dev_name;
normal->major = drv->major;
normal->minor_start = drv->minor;
normal->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL;
normal->subtype = SERIAL_TYPE_NORMAL;
normal->init_termios = tty_std_termios;
normal->init_termios.c_cflag = B9600 | CS8 | CREAD | HUPCL | CLOCAL;
normal->init_termios.c_ispeed = normal->init_termios.c_ospeed = 9600;
normal->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW | TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV;
normal->driver_state = drv;
tty_set_operations(normal, &uart_ops);

/*
* Initialise the UART state(s).
*/
for (i = 0; i < drv->nr; i++) {
struct uart_state *state = drv->state + i;

state->close_delay = 500; /* .5 seconds */
state->closing_wait = 30000; /* 30 seconds */

mutex_init(&state->mutex);
}

retval = tty_register_driver(normal);
out:
if (retval < 0) {
put_tty_driver(normal);
kfree(drv->state);
}
return retval;
}
从上面代码可以看出.uart_driver中很多数据结构其实就是tty_driver中的.将数据转换为tty_driver之后,注册tty_driver.然后初始化uart_driver->state的存储空间.
这样,就会注册uart_driver->nr个设备节点.主设备号为uart_driver-> major. 开始的次设备号为uart_driver-> minor.
值得注意的是.在这里将tty_driver的操作集统一设为了uart_ops.其次,在tty_driver-> driver_state保存了这个uart_driver.这样做是为了在用户空间对设备文件的操作时,很容易转到对应的uart_driver.
另外:tty_driver的flags成员值为: TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW | TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV.里面包含有TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV标志.结合之前对tty的分析.如果包含有这个标志,是不会在初始化的时候去注册device.也就是说在/dev/下没有动态生成结点(如果是/dev下静态创建了这个结点就另当别论了^_^).

流程图如下:


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五: uart_add_one_port()操作
在前面提到.在对uart设备文件过程中.会将操作转换到对应的port上,这个port跟uart_driver是怎么关联起来的呢?这就是uart_add_ont_port()的主要工作了.
顾名思义,这个函数是在uart_driver增加一个port.代码如下:
int uart_add_one_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_port *port)
{
struct uart_state *state;
int ret = 0;
struct device *tty_dev;

BUG_ON(in_interrupt());

if (port->line >= drv->nr)
return -EINVAL;

state = drv->state + port->line;

mutex_lock(&port_mutex);
mutex_lock(&state->mutex);
if (state->port) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}

state->port = port;
state->pm_state = -1;

port->cons = drv->cons;
port->info = state->info;

/*
* If this port is a console, then the spinlock is already
* initialised.
*/
if (!(uart_console(port) && (port->cons->flags & CON_ENABLED))) {
spin_lock_init(&port->lock);
lockdep_set_class(&port->lock, &port_lock_key);
}

uart_configure_port(drv, state, port);

/*
* Register the port whether it's detected or not. This allows
* setserial to be used to alter this ports parameters.
*/
tty_dev = tty_register_device(drv->tty_driver, port->line, port->dev);
if (likely(!IS_ERR(tty_dev))) {
device_can_wakeup(tty_dev) = 1;
device_set_wakeup_enable(tty_dev, 0);
} else
printk(KERN_ERR "Cannot register tty device on line %d\n",
port->line);

/*
* Ensure UPF_DEAD is not set.
*/
port->flags &= ~UPF_DEAD;

out:
mutex_unlock(&state->mutex);
mutex_unlock(&port_mutex);

return ret;
}
首先这个函数不能在中断环境中使用. Uart_port->line就是对uart设备文件序号.它对应的也就是uart_driver->state数组中的uart_port->line项.
它主要初始化对应uart_driver->state项.接着调用uart_configure_port()进行port的自动配置.然后注册tty_device.如果用户空间运行了udev或者已经配置好了hotplug.就会在/dev下自动生成设备文件了.
操作流程图如下所示:


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六:设备节点的open操作
在用户空间执行open操作的时候,就会执行uart_ops->open. Uart_ops的定义如下:
static const struct tty_operations uart_ops = {
.open = uart_open,
.close = uart_close,
.write = uart_write,
.put_char = uart_put_char,
.flush_chars = uart_flush_chars,
.write_room = uart_write_room,
.chars_in_buffer= uart_chars_in_buffer,
.flush_buffer = uart_flush_buffer,
.ioctl = uart_ioctl,
.throttle = uart_throttle,
.unthrottle = uart_unthrottle,
.send_xchar = uart_send_xchar,
.set_termios = uart_set_termios,
.stop = uart_stop,
.start = uart_start,
.hangup = uart_hangup,
.break_ctl = uart_break_ctl,
.wait_until_sent= uart_wait_until_sent,
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
.read_proc = uart_read_proc,
#endif
.tiocmget = uart_tiocmget,
.tiocmset = uart_tiocmset,
};
对应open的操作接口为uart_open.代码如下:
static int uart_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
{
struct uart_driver *drv = (struct uart_driver *)tty->driver->driver_state;
struct uart_state *state;
int retval, line = tty->index;

BUG_ON(!kernel_locked());
pr_debug("uart_open(%d) called\n", line);

/*
* tty->driver->num won't change, so we won't fail here with
* tty->driver_data set to something non-NULL (and therefore
* we won't get caught by uart_close()).
*/
retval = -ENODEV;
if (line >= tty->driver->num)
goto fail;

/*
* We take the semaphore inside uart_get to guarantee that we won't
* be re-entered while allocating the info structure, or while we
* request any IRQs that the driver may need. This also has the nice
* side-effect that it delays the action of uart_hangup, so we can
* guarantee that info->tty will always contain something reasonable.
*/
state = uart_get(drv, line);
if (IS_ERR(state)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(state);
goto fail;
}

/*
* Once we set tty->driver_data here, we are guaranteed that
* uart_close() will decrement the driver module use count.
* Any failures from here onwards should not touch the count.
*/
tty->driver_data = state;
tty->low_latency = (state->port->flags & UPF_LOW_LATENCY) ? 1 : 0;
tty->alt_speed = 0;
state->info->tty = tty;

/*
* If the port is in the middle of closing, bail out now.
*/
if (tty_hung_up_p(filp)) {
retval = -EAGAIN;
state->count--;
mutex_unlock(&state->mutex);
goto fail;
}

/*
* Make sure the device is in D0 state.
*/
if (state->count == 1)
uart_change_pm(state, 0);

/*
* Start up the serial port.
*/
retval = uart_startup(state, 0);

/*
* If we succeeded, wait until the port is ready.
*/
if (retval == 0)
retval = uart_block_til_ready(filp, state);
mutex_unlock(&state->mutex);

/*
* If this is the first open to succeed, adjust things to suit.
*/
if (retval == 0 && !(state->info->flags & UIF_NORMAL_ACTIVE)) {
state->info->flags |= UIF_NORMAL_ACTIVE;

uart_update_termios(state);
}

fail:
return retval;
}
在这里函数里,继续完成操作的设备文件所对应state初始化.现在用户空间open这个设备了.即要对这个文件进行操作了.那uart_port也要开始工作了.即调用uart_startup()使其进入工作状态.当然,也需要初始化uart_port所对应的环形缓冲区circ_buf.即state->info-> xmit.
特别要注意,在这里将tty->driver_data = state;这是因为以后的操作只有port相关了,不需要去了解uart_driver的相关信息.
跟踪看一下里面调用的两个重要的子函数. uart_get()和uart_startup().先分析uart_get().代码如下:
static struct uart_state *uart_get(struct uart_driver *drv, int line)
{
struct uart_state *state;
int ret = 0;

state = drv->state + line;
if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&state->mutex)) {
ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
goto err;
}

state->count++;
if (!state->port || state->port->flags & UPF_DEAD) {
ret = -ENXIO;
goto err_unlock;
}

if (!state->info) {
state->info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct uart_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (state->info) {
init_waitqueue_head(&state->info->open_wait);
init_waitqueue_head(&state->info->delta_msr_wait);

/*
* Link the info into the other structures.
*/
state->port->info = state->info;

tasklet_init(&state->info->tlet, uart_tasklet_action,
(unsigned long)state);
} else {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err_unlock;
}
}
return state;

err_unlock:
state->count--;
mutex_unlock(&state->mutex);
err:
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
从代码中可以看出.这里注要是操作是初始化state->info.注意port->info就是state->info的一个副本.即port直接通过port->info可以找到它要操作的缓存区.

uart_startup()代码如下:
static int uart_startup(struct uart_state *state, int init_hw)
{
struct uart_info *info = state->info;
struct uart_port *port = state->port;
unsigned long page;
int retval = 0;

if (info->flags & UIF_INITIALIZED)
return 0;

/*
* Set the TTY IO error marker - we will only clear this
* once we have successfully opened the port. Also set
* up the tty->alt_speed kludge
*/
set_bit(TTY_IO_ERROR, &info->tty->flags);

if (port->type == PORT_UNKNOWN)
return 0;

/*
* Initialise and allocate the transmit and temporary
* buffer.
*/
if (!info->xmit.buf) {
page = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;

info->xmit.buf = (unsigned char *) page;
uart_circ_clear(&info->xmit);
}

retval = port->ops->startup(port);
if (retval == 0) {
if (init_hw) {
/*
* Initialise the hardware port settings.
*/
uart_change_speed(state, NULL);

/*
* Setup the RTS and DTR signals once the
* port is open and ready to respond.
*/
if (info->tty->termios->c_cflag & CBAUD)
uart_set_mctrl(port, TIOCM_RTS | TIOCM_DTR);
}

if (info->flags & UIF_CTS_FLOW) {
spin_lock_irq(&port->lock);
if (!(port->ops->get_mctrl(port) & TIOCM_CTS))
info->tty->hw_stopped = 1;
spin_unlock_irq(&port->lock);
}

info->flags |= UIF_INITIALIZED;

clear_bit(TTY_IO_ERROR, &info->tty->flags);
}

if (retval && capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
retval = 0;

return retval;
}
在这里,注要完成对环形缓冲,即info->xmit的初始化.然后调用port->ops->startup( )将这个port带入到工作状态.其它的是一个可调参数的设置,就不详细讲解了.

七:设备节点的write操作
Write操作对应的操作接口为uart_write( ).代码如下:
static int
uart_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf, int count)
{
struct uart_state *state = tty->driver_data;
struct uart_port *port;
struct circ_buf *circ;
unsigned long flags;
int c, ret = 0;

/*
* This means you called this function _after_ the port was
* closed. No cookie for you.
*/
if (!state || !state->info) {
WARN_ON(1);
return -EL3HLT;
}

port = state->port;
circ = &state->info->xmit;

if (!circ->buf)
return 0;

spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
while (1) {
c = CIRC_SPACE_TO_END(circ->head, circ->tail, UART_XMIT_SIZE);
if (count < c)
c = count;
if (c <= 0)
break;
memcpy(circ->buf + circ->head, buf, c);
circ->head = (circ->head + c) & (UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
buf += c;
count -= c;
ret += c;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);

uart_start(tty);
return ret;
}

Uart_start()代码如下:
static void uart_start(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct uart_state *state = tty->driver_data;
struct uart_port *port = state->port;
unsigned long flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
__uart_start(tty);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
}
static void __uart_start(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct uart_state *state = tty->driver_data;
struct uart_port *port = state->port;

if (!uart_circ_empty(&state->info->xmit) && state->info->xmit.buf &&
!tty->stopped && !tty->hw_stopped)
port->ops->start_tx(port);
}

显然,对于write操作而言,它就是将数据copy到环形缓存区.然后调用port->ops->start_tx()将数据写到硬件寄存器.

八:Read操作
Uart的read操作同Tty的read操作相同,即都是调用ldsic->read()读取read_buf中的内容.有对这部份内容不太清楚的,参阅<< linux设备模型之tty驱动架构>>.

九:小结
本小节是分析serial驱动的基础.在理解了tty驱动架构之后,再来理解uart驱动架构应该不是很难.随着我们在linux设备驱动分析的深入,越来越深刻的体会到,linux的设备驱动架构很多都是相通的.只要深刻理解了一种驱动架构.举一反三.也就很容易分析出其它架构的驱动了.