Re: [RESEND][PATCH] mtd: devices: m25p80: add support for mmap read request

[Vignesh R]

Hi,

On 04/05/2016 11:44 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> + Mark, Cyrille
> 
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:16:17AM +0530, Vignesh R wrote:
>> Certain SPI controllers may provide accelerated hardware interface to
>> read from m25p80 type flash devices in order to provide better read
>> performance. SPI core supports such devices with spi_flash_read() API.
>> Call spi_flash_read(), if supported, to make use of such interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
>> ---
> 
> Applied, with a small diff.
> 
>> Resend v5:
>> Rebased on top of v4.6-rc1
>> v5: http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg106696.html
>>
>>  drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
>> index c9c3b7fa3051..7730e633d7d3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
>> @@ -131,6 +131,26 @@ static int m25p80_read(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t from, size_t len,
>>  	/* convert the dummy cycles to the number of bytes */
>>  	dummy /= 8;
>>  
>> +	if (spi_flash_read_supported(spi)) {
>> +		struct spi_flash_read_message msg;
>> +		int ret;
>> +
> 
> I added a memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(msg)), since spi_flash_read() doesn't
> guarantee msg.retlen is zeroed for failures. 

Thanks!

> Do we want a
> spi_flash_read_message_init() function, to mirror spi_message_init()?
> 

Not sure, there is nothing much to initialize (apart from memset msg to
zero), all fields are expected to explicitly populated by MTD flash driver.

>> +		msg.buf = buf;
>> +		msg.from = from;
>> +		msg.len = len;
>> +		msg.read_opcode = nor->read_opcode;
>> +		msg.addr_width = nor->addr_width;
>> +		msg.dummy_bytes = dummy;
>> +		/* TODO: Support other combinations */
> 
> Speaking of "other combinations": does the TI QSPI controller support
> MMAP'ed read modes other than 1/1/{1,2,4}? It doesn't seem to implement
> support, and the SPI core doesn't handle this. So if we merge any of
> Cyrille's work on other modes, then this is going to break quickly.
> 

No, TI QSPI only supports 1/1/{1,2,4} mode in MMAP'ed mode or in normal
SPI mode. This is specified in DT as:
			spi-tx-bus-width = <1>;
inside m25p80 slave node. This indicates that cmd,addr are always on D0
line only.
AFAIK, Cyrille's series starts using 4-4-4/2-2-2/ etc only if the flash
 was  initially configured to be in that mode by bootloader/ROM code. If
flash's bit to enter 4-4-4 is not set, then there will be no change and
m25p80 continues to use 1-1-4 format for QUAD read. Therefore I don't
think those patches will break TI QSPI. I will try and test that series
on top of this patch sometime soon.

-- 
Regards
Vignesh