[PATCH] spi: tegra210-quad: Fix false positive WARN on interrupt timeout with transfer complete
From: Breno Leitao
Date: Wed Apr 08 2026 - 09:46:57 EST
The WARN_ON_ONCE/WARN_ON fired unconditionally on any completion
timeout, including the recoverable case where the interrupt was lost but
the hardware actually finished the transfer. This produced a noisy splat
with a full call trace even though the driver successfully recovered via
tegra_qspi_handle_timeout().
Since tegra210 uses threaded interrupts, the transfer completion can be
signaled before the interrupt fires, making this false positive case
common in practice.
Almost all the hosts I sysadmin in my fleet produce the following splat:
WARNING: CPU: 47 PID: 844 at drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c:1226 tegra_qspi_transfer_one_message+0x8a4/0xba8
....
tegra-qspi NVDA1513:00: QSPI interrupt timeout, but transfer complete
Move WARN_ON_ONCE/WARN_ON to fire only on real unrecoverable timeouts,
i.e., when tegra_qspi_handle_timeout() confirms the hardware did NOT
complete. This makes the warning actionable instead of just polluting
the metrics.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c b/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c
index 7cca5578eba31..db28dd556484b 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c
@@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ static int tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer(struct tegra_qspi *tqspi,
(&tqspi->xfer_completion,
QSPI_DMA_TIMEOUT);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret == 0)) {
+ if (ret == 0) {
/*
* Check if hardware completed the transfer
* even though interrupt was lost or delayed.
@@ -1232,6 +1232,7 @@ static int tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer(struct tegra_qspi *tqspi,
ret = tegra_qspi_handle_timeout(tqspi);
if (ret < 0) {
/* Real timeout - clean up and fail */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
dev_err(tqspi->dev, "transfer timeout\n");
/* Abort transfer by resetting pio/dma bit */
@@ -1340,7 +1341,7 @@ static int tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer(struct tegra_qspi *tqspi,
ret = wait_for_completion_timeout(&tqspi->xfer_completion,
QSPI_DMA_TIMEOUT);
- if (WARN_ON(ret == 0)) {
+ if (ret == 0) {
/*
* Check if hardware completed the transfer even though
* interrupt was lost or delayed. If so, process the
@@ -1349,6 +1350,7 @@ static int tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer(struct tegra_qspi *tqspi,
ret = tegra_qspi_handle_timeout(tqspi);
if (ret < 0) {
/* Real timeout - clean up and fail */
+ WARN_ON(1);
dev_err(tqspi->dev, "transfer timeout\n");
if (tqspi->is_curr_dma_xfer)
---
base-commit: f3e6330d7fe42b204af05a2dbc68b379e0ad179e
change-id: 20260408-tegra_warn-cecd2ca3a61b
Best regards,
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Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>