[PATCH 1/5] spi: dw: fix first spi transfer with dma always fallback to PIO

From: Jisheng Zhang

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 01:00:29 EST


Even with proper dma engine support, the first spi transfer always
fallback to PIO, the reason is the dws->n_bytes is 0 after
initialization, so the dw_spi_can_dma() calling from __spi_map_msg()
return false, thus both tx_sg_mapped and rx_sg_mapped are false, so
for the first spi transfer, the spi_xfer_is_dma_mapped() reports false
thus fallback to PIO.

Although this brings no harm, we can simply fix this issue by
calcuating the "n_bytes" from xfer->bits_per_word.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-dw-dma.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-dma.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-dma.c
index fe726b9b1780..bd70a7ed8067 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-dma.c
@@ -247,11 +247,12 @@ static bool dw_spi_can_dma(struct spi_controller *ctlr,
{
struct dw_spi *dws = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctlr);
enum dma_slave_buswidth dma_bus_width;
+ u8 n_bytes = roundup_pow_of_two(BITS_TO_BYTES(xfer->bits_per_word));

if (xfer->len <= dws->fifo_len)
return false;

- dma_bus_width = dw_spi_dma_convert_width(dws->n_bytes);
+ dma_bus_width = dw_spi_dma_convert_width(n_bytes);

return dws->dma_addr_widths & BIT(dma_bus_width);
}
--
2.53.0