Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] spi: sun6i: restrict transfer length in PIO-mode

From: Sergey Suloev
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 07:10:53 EST


On 04/09/2018 01:50 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 01:26:23PM +0300, Sergey Suloev wrote:
On 04/09/2018 12:27 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 06:48:23PM +0300, Sergey Suloev wrote:
On 04/06/2018 10:34 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
According to what you said the driver must implement
"transfer_one_message" instead of "transfer_one"
I'm not sure what makes you think that I said that.
Because current implementation tries to send more than FIFO-depth of data in
a single call to "transfer_one" which is wrong.
No, that's absolutely not the case. All any of these functions has to
do is transfer whatever they were asked to, how they do it is not at all
important to the framework.

I think you don't fully understand the issue. Let's talk about sun4i and  sun6i SPI  drivers separately.

sun4i

1)it is correctly declaring max_transfer_size=FIFO depth for PIO mode  but transfer_one() function doesn't follow the declaration allowing PIO transfers longer than FIFO depth  by just refilling FIFO using 3/4 FIFO empty interrupt. I can definitely state here that long transfers WON'T WORK on real hardware. I tested it and that's why I can say that. But as soon as sun4i SPI driver  is correctly declaring max_transfer_size then "smart" clients will work well by limiting a single transfer size to FIFO depth. I tested it with real hardware, again.


sun6i

2) it allows PIO transfers of any length by declaring max_transfer_size to a huge number, i.e. you can ONLY make this driver work in PIO mode  by limiting a single transfer size to FIFO depth (64 or 128 bytes) on client side  and ignore max_transfer_size  exposed by the driver. Again, tested with real hardware.

All above doesn't work for DMA mode as there is no such limitation.

I can't clearly explain what is happening in the hardware in PIO mode but it seems that TC interrupt doesn't arrive in time when refilling FIFO multiple times takes place and every long transfer will end up with a timeout error.