Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] spi: introduce mmap read support for spi flash devices

From: Michal Suchanek
Date: Tue Nov 03 2015 - 06:20:08 EST


On 3 November 2015 at 11:06, Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> In addition to providing direct access to SPI bus, some spi controller
> hardwares (like ti-qspi) provide special memory mapped port
> to accesses SPI flash devices in order to increase read performance.
> This means the controller can automatically send the SPI signals
> required to read data from the SPI flash device.
> For this, spi controller needs to know flash specific information like
> read command to use, dummy bytes and address width. Once these settings
> are populated in hardware registers, any read accesses to flash's memory
> map region(SoC specific) through memcpy (or mem-to mem DMA copy) will be
> handled by controller hardware. The hardware will automatically generate
> SPI signals required to read data from flash and present it to CPU/DMA.
>
> Introduce spi_mtd_mmap_read() interface to support memory mapped read
> over SPI flash devices. SPI master drivers can implement this callback to
> support memory mapped read interfaces. m25p80 flash driver and other
> flash drivers can call this to request memory mapped read. The interface
> should only be used MTD flashes and cannot be used with other SPI devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/spi/spi.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/spi/spi.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c
> index a5f53de813d3..5a5c7a7d47f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
> @@ -1059,6 +1059,7 @@ static void __spi_pump_messages(struct spi_master *master, bool in_kthread)
> }
> }
>
> + mutex_lock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> trace_spi_message_start(master->cur_msg);
>
> if (master->prepare_message) {
> @@ -1068,6 +1069,7 @@ static void __spi_pump_messages(struct spi_master *master, bool in_kthread)
> "failed to prepare message: %d\n", ret);
> master->cur_msg->status = ret;
> spi_finalize_current_message(master);
> + mutex_unlock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> return;
> }
> master->cur_msg_prepared = true;
> @@ -1077,6 +1079,7 @@ static void __spi_pump_messages(struct spi_master *master, bool in_kthread)
> if (ret) {
> master->cur_msg->status = ret;
> spi_finalize_current_message(master);
> + mutex_unlock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> return;
> }
>
> @@ -1084,8 +1087,10 @@ static void __spi_pump_messages(struct spi_master *master, bool in_kthread)
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(&master->dev,
> "failed to transfer one message from queue\n");
> + mutex_unlock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> return;
> }
> + mutex_unlock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -1732,6 +1737,7 @@ int spi_register_master(struct spi_master *master)
> spin_lock_init(&master->queue_lock);
> spin_lock_init(&master->bus_lock_spinlock);
> mutex_init(&master->bus_lock_mutex);
> + mutex_init(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> master->bus_lock_flag = 0;
> init_completion(&master->xfer_completion);
> if (!master->max_dma_len)
> @@ -2237,6 +2243,35 @@ int spi_async_locked(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_async_locked);
>
>
> +int spi_mtd_mmap_read(struct spi_device *spi, loff_t from, size_t len,
> + size_t *retlen, u_char *buf, u8 read_opcode,
> + u8 addr_width, u8 dummy_bytes)
> +
> +{
> + struct spi_master *master = spi->master;
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (master->auto_runtime_pm) {
> + ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(master->dev.parent);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + dev_err(&master->dev, "Failed to power device: %d\n",
> + ret);
> + goto err;
> + }
> + }
> + mutex_lock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> + ret = master->spi_mtd_mmap_read(spi, from, len, retlen, buf,
> + read_opcode, addr_width,
> + dummy_bytes);
> + mutex_unlock(&master->mmap_lock_mutex);
> + if (master->auto_runtime_pm)
> + pm_runtime_put(master->dev.parent);
> +
> +err:
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_mtd_mmap_read);
> +
> /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
>
> /* Utility methods for SPI master protocol drivers, layered on
> diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi.h b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
> index 6b00f18f5e6b..0a6d8ad57357 100644
> --- a/include/linux/spi/spi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
> @@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ static inline void spi_unregister_driver(struct spi_driver *sdrv)
> * @flags: other constraints relevant to this driver
> * @bus_lock_spinlock: spinlock for SPI bus locking
> * @bus_lock_mutex: mutex for SPI bus locking
> + * @mmap_lock_mutex: mutex for locking SPI bus when mmap transfer is on.

Any reason to not use the bus_lock_mutex here? The bus is busy as much
during mmap transfer as it is during any other transfer.

Thanks

Michal
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