On Thursday 14 September 2017 03:28 AM, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:
>
>
> On 08/18/2017 02:39 PM, Franklin S Cooper Jr wrote:
>> During test transmitting using CAN-FD at high bitrates (4 Mbps) only
>> resulted in errors. Scoping the signals I noticed that only a single bit
>> was being transmitted and with a bit more investigation realized the actual
>> MCAN IP would go back to initialization mode automatically.
>>
>> It appears this issue is due to the MCAN needing to use the Transmitter
>> Delay Compensation Mode as defined in the MCAN User's Guide. When this
>> mode is used the User's Guide indicates that the Transmitter Delay
>> Compensation Offset register should be set. The document mentions that this
>> register should be set to (1/dbitrate)/2*(Func Clk Freq).
>>
>> Additional CAN-CIA's "Bit Time Requirements for CAN FD" document indicates
>> that this TDC mode is only needed for data bit rates above 2.5 Mbps.
>> Therefore, only enable this mode and only set TDCO when the data bit rate
>> is above 2.5 Mbps.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr <fcoo...@ti.com>
>> ---
>> I'm pretty surprised that this hasn't been implemented already since
>> the primary purpose of CAN-FD is to go beyond 1 Mbps and the MCAN IP
>> supports up to 10 Mbps.
>>
>> So it will be nice to get comments from users of this driver to understand
>> if they have been able to use CAN-FD beyond 2.5 Mbps without this patch.
>> If they haven't what did they do to get around it if they needed higher
>> speeds.
>>
>> Meanwhile I plan on testing this using a more "realistic" CAN bus to insure
>> everything still works at 5 Mbps which is the max speed of my CAN
>> transceiver.
>
> ping. Anyone has any thoughts on this?
I added Dong who authored the m_can driver and Wenyou who added the only
in-kernel user of the driver for any help.
Thanks,
Sekhar
>>
>> drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
>> index f4947a7..720e073 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
>> @@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ enum m_can_mram_cfg {
>> #define DBTP_DSJW_SHIFT 0
>> #define DBTP_DSJW_MASK (0xf << DBTP_DSJW_SHIFT)
>>
>> +/* Transmitter Delay Compensation Register (TDCR) */
>> +#define TDCR_TDCO_SHIFT 8
>> +#define TDCR_TDCO_MASK (0x7F << TDCR_TDCO_SHIFT)
>> +#define TDCR_TDCF_SHIFT 0
>> +#define TDCR_TDCF_MASK (0x7F << TDCR_TDCO_SHIFT)
>> +
>> /* Test Register (TEST) */
>> #define TEST_LBCK BIT(4)
>>
>> @@ -977,6 +983,8 @@ static int m_can_set_bittiming(struct net_device *dev)
>> const struct can_bittiming *dbt = &priv->can.data_bittiming;
>> u16 brp, sjw, tseg1, tseg2;
>> u32 reg_btp;
>> + u32 enable_tdc = 0;
>> + u32 tdco;
>>
>> brp = bt->brp - 1;
>> sjw = bt->sjw - 1;
>> @@ -991,9 +999,23 @@ static int m_can_set_bittiming(struct net_device *dev)
>> sjw = dbt->sjw - 1;
>> tseg1 = dbt->prop_seg + dbt->phase_seg1 - 1;
>> tseg2 = dbt->phase_seg2 - 1;
>> +
>> + /* TDC is only needed for bitrates beyond 2.5 MBit/s
>> + * Specified in the "Bit Time Requirements for CAN FD" document
>> + */
>> + if (dbt->bitrate > 2500000) {
>> + enable_tdc = DBTP_TDC;
>> + /* Equation based on Bosch's M_CAN User Manual's
>> + * Transmitter Delay Compensation Section
>> + */
>> + tdco = priv->can.clock.freq / (dbt->bitrate * 2);
>> + m_can_write(priv, M_CAN_TDCR, tdco << TDCR_TDCO_SHIFT);
>> + }
>> +
>> reg_btp = (brp << DBTP_DBRP_SHIFT) | (sjw << DBTP_DSJW_SHIFT) |
>> (tseg1 << DBTP_DTSEG1_SHIFT) |
>> - (tseg2 << DBTP_DTSEG2_SHIFT);
>> + (tseg2 << DBTP_DTSEG2_SHIFT) | enable_tdc;
>> +
>> m_can_write(priv, M_CAN_DBTP, reg_btp);
>> }
>>
>>
