Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx7: add DMA properties for ECSPI

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Trent,

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:44 PM Trent Piepho <tpiepho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've had more time to test.
>
> Without DMA, I can reload my FPGA hundreds of times and get days of
> uptime using linux-next.
>
> With DMA, loading is unreliable.  The higher the SPI speed, the less
> reliable it is.  Unfortunately, it's hard to duplicate the problem with
> a small amount of data, and with a large amount of data I can't examine
> it in depth enough to determine if the problem is related to SPI bus
> timing or IMX sDMA sending the wrong bytes to the spi controller.
>
> Using DMA with SPI causes kernel panics.  Not always immediately, but
> after using DMA it's a smaller of minutes before something crashes.
> The backtraces are all over the place and don't usually point back into
> SPI.  It does seem like they usually hit something has allocated or is
> allocating DMA memory.

Did you test with an external SDMA firmware or with the ROM SDMA firmware?

Just trying to understand if the SDMA firmware plays a role on this
behavior or not.