Re: [PATCH v5 11/15] dmaengine: imx-sdma: fix ecspi1 rx dma not work on i.mx8mm

[Schrempf Frieder]

Hi,

On 27.09.19 03:55, Robin Gong wrote:
> On 2019-9-25 22:53 Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 25.09.19 13:26, Robin Gong wrote:
>>> On 2019-9-24 21:28 Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Robin,
>>>>
>>>>> From: Robin Gong <yibin.gong at nxp.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Because the number of ecspi1 rx event on i.mx8mm is 0, the condition
>>>>> check ignore such special case without dma channel enabled, which
>>>>> caused
>>>>> ecspi1 rx works failed. Actually, no need to check
>>>>> event_id0/event_id1 and replace checking 'event_id1' with
>>>>> 'DMA_DEV_TO_DEV', so that configure
>>>>> event_id1 only in case DEV_TO_DEV.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Robin Gong <yibin.gong at nxp.com>
>>>>> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul at kernel.org>
>>>>
>>>> I have a custom board with i.MX8MM and SPI flash on ecspi1. I'm
>>>> currently testing with v5.3 and as SPI didn't work, I tried two different
>> things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Removing 'dmas' and 'dma-names' from the ecspi1 node in
>> imx8mm.dtsi,
>>>>       to use PIO instead of DMA. This works as expected and the driver
>>>>       boots with the following messages:
>>>>
>>>>           spi_imx 30820000.spi: dma setup error -19, use pio
>>>>           m25p80 spi0.0: mx25v8035f (1024 Kbytes)
>>>>           spi_imx 30820000.spi: probed
>>>>
>>>> 2. Applying your patchset and use DMA. In this case, the flash also
>>>>       works fine, but there are some error messages printed while
>> booting:
>>>>
>>>>           spi_master spi0: I/O Error in DMA RX
>>>>           m25p80 spi0.0: SPI transfer failed: -110
>>>>           spi_master spi0: failed to transfer one message from queue
>>>>           m25p80 spi0.0: mx25v8035f (1024 Kbytes)
>>>>           spi_imx 30820000.spi: probed
>>>>
>>>> It would be great to get your patches merged and fix SPI + DMA, but
>>>> for i.MX8MM, we need to get rid of the error messages. Do you have an
>>>> idea, what's wrong?
>>
>>> Could you check if the length of spi message is bigger than fifo_size
>>> during spi_nor probe? If yes, at that time maybe sdma firmware not loaded.
>>> if (transfer->len < spi_imx->devtype_data->fifo_size)
>>
>> Indeed, most of the transfers triggered by the SPI NOR dirver are below
>> fifo_size and work fine, but some are bigger. The transfers therefore try to
>> use DMA, but the firmware is not loaded yet.
>>
>> How is this supposed to work? Shouldn't all transfers use PIO as long as the
>> SDMA firmware is not loaded yet?
> Yes, for ecspi should work with ram script, it's better check if sdma firmware
> is ready in spi_imx_dma_configure(), need modification in sdma driver too.
> I'll create another patch after this patch set accepted.

This still seems to be broken upstream. Is anyone working on fixing SPI 
+ DMA for i.MX8MM? Otherwise I will send a patch that removes the DMA 
from the ecspi nodes in the devicetree.

Thanks,
Frieder