Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] fpga: microchip-spi: move SPI I/O buffers out of stack
From: Xu Yilun
Date: Fri Dec 30 2022 - 02:42:13 EST
On 2022-12-29 at 13:46:02 +0300, Ivan Bornyakov wrote:
> As spi-summary doc says:
> > I/O buffers use the usual Linux rules, and must be DMA-safe.
> > You'd normally allocate them from the heap or free page pool.
> > Don't use the stack, or anything that's declared "static".
>
> Replace spi_write() with spi_write_then_read(), which is dma-safe for
> on-stack buffers. Use allocated buffers for transfers used in
How about "Use cacheline aligned buffers for ..."
> spi_sync_transfer().
>
> Although everything works OK with stack-located I/O buffers, better
> follow the doc to be safe.
>
> Fixes: 5f8d4a900830 ("fpga: microchip-spi: add Microchip MPF FPGA manager")
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Bornyakov <i.bornyakov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/fpga/microchip-spi.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
> 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/microchip-spi.c b/drivers/fpga/microchip-spi.c
> index 7436976ea904..e72fedd93a27 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/microchip-spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/microchip-spi.c
> @@ -42,46 +42,55 @@
> struct mpf_priv {
> struct spi_device *spi;
> bool program_mode;
> + u8 tx __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN);
> + u8 rx __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN);
If the 2 buffers are used synchronously by dma, they could share a
cacheline. Just separate them from other members should be OK, like:
u8 tx __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN);
u8 rx;
> };
>