Re: AM335x BeagleBone SPI Issues

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Jack Mitchell <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/12/12 14:59, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:50:16PM +0000, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:23:09PM +0000, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am currently having issues with the SPI driver on the beaglebone
>>>>> using the 3.7-rc8 kernel[1]. I have probed the SPI pins and I have
>>>>> found that writing works however reading doesn't. When using DMA the
>>>>> program seems to lock hard and no data is sent on the bus. I am
>>>>> testing the bus using spidev and the spidev_test[2] application,
>>>>> however I first came across spi issues with a custom spi driver which
>>>>> stopped working when I transitioned from 3.2-psp to 3.7-rc8.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current output I am seeing from the spidev_test program is just a
>>>>> series of 0x00 data, which looks to me like no data is getting in at
>>>>> all. The spidev_test program is not using DMA as the buffer size is
>>>>> too low, so I forced the dma on when buffer size is > 1 and the
>>>>> program hangs hard with the system still responding to other
>>>>> commands.I have briged the pins 18 and 21 on the BeagleBone P9
>>>>> header.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone seen issues like this, or if not if someone could please
>>>>> test the latest 3.7-rc8 from [1] and let me know if it works for them
>>>>> and the issue is at my end.
>>>>>
>>>>> To get spidev working with devicetree I applied the patch from [3]
>>>>> and changed the dtb as in the patch pasted below.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://github.com/beagleboard/kernel/tree/3.7
>>>>> [2] http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.6.9/Documentation/spi/spidev_test.c
>>>>> [3]
>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/spi-devel-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg09958.html
>>>>
>>>> do you have any debugging output from that driver ? It would be cool to
>>>> see if DMA is at least being kicked properly for small transfers.
>>>
>>> When I run the spidev program with dma for transfers > 1, the program
>>> hangs and the only output in dmesg is:
>>>
>>> [   12.613952] libphy: 4a101000.mdio:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full <----
>>> Last line from initial log in [2]
>>> [   47.669202] spidev spi1.0: setup: speed 24000000, sample leading
>>> edge, clk normal
>>> [   47.669246] spidev spi1.0: setup mode 0, 8 bits/w, 24000000 Hz max -->
>>> 0
>>> [   47.669260] spidev spi1.0: spi mode 00
>>> [   47.669283] spidev spi1.0: setup: speed 24000000, sample leading
>>> edge, clk normal
>>> [   47.669300] spidev spi1.0: setup mode 0, 16 bits/w, 24000000 Hz max
>>> --> 0
>>> [   47.669312] spidev spi1.0: 16 bits per word
>>> [   47.669330] spidev spi1.0: setup: speed 24000000, sample leading
>>> edge, clk normal
>>> [   47.669347] spidev spi1.0: setup mode 0, 16 bits/w, 24000000 Hz max
>>> --> 0
>>> [   47.669358] spidev spi1.0: 24000000 Hz (max)
>>> [   47.673811] spidev spi1.0: setup: speed 24000000, sample leading
>>> edge, clk normal
>>>
>>> The initial dmesg statup log is at [2].
>>
>> can you apply the debugging patch below to spi driver and show me the
>> output again ?
>>
>> Note that I'm allowing DMA for as small as 1-byte transfers (as you
>> needed) and I'm also disabling DMA Request line before calling
>> complete() as I think the current way could race, but likely wouldn't
>> cause issues. Anyway, please show me the output.
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c
>> index 3542fdc..d2b1af2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c
>> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ struct omap2_mcspi_dma {
>>   /* use PIO for small transfers, avoiding DMA setup/teardown overhead and
>>    * cache operations; better heuristics consider wordsize and bitrate.
>>    */
>> -#define DMA_MIN_BYTES                  160
>> +#define DMA_MIN_BYTES                  1
>>       /*
>> @@ -298,10 +298,11 @@ static void omap2_mcspi_rx_callback(void *data)
>>         struct omap2_mcspi *mcspi = spi_master_get_devdata(spi->master);
>>         struct omap2_mcspi_dma *mcspi_dma =
>> &mcspi->dma_channels[spi->chip_select];
>>   -     complete(&mcspi_dma->dma_rx_completion);
>> -
>>         /* We must disable the DMA RX request */
>> +       dev_info(&spi->dev, "Disabling RX Request Line\n");
>>         omap2_mcspi_set_dma_req(spi, 1, 0);
>> +
>> +       complete(&mcspi_dma->dma_rx_completion);
>>   }
>>     static void omap2_mcspi_tx_callback(void *data)
>> @@ -310,10 +311,11 @@ static void omap2_mcspi_tx_callback(void *data)
>>         struct omap2_mcspi *mcspi = spi_master_get_devdata(spi->master);
>>         struct omap2_mcspi_dma *mcspi_dma =
>> &mcspi->dma_channels[spi->chip_select];
>>   -     complete(&mcspi_dma->dma_tx_completion);
>> -
>>         /* We must disable the DMA TX request */
>> +       dev_info(&spi->dev, "Disabling TX Request Line\n");
>>         omap2_mcspi_set_dma_req(spi, 0, 0);
>> +
>> +       complete(&mcspi_dma->dma_tx_completion);
>>   }
>>     static void omap2_mcspi_tx_dma(struct spi_device *spi,
>> @@ -328,6 +330,7 @@ static void omap2_mcspi_tx_dma(struct spi_device *spi,
>>         void __iomem            *chstat_reg;
>>         struct omap2_mcspi_cs   *cs = spi->controller_state;
>>   +     dev_info(&spi->dev, "kicking TX DMA\n");
>>         mcspi = spi_master_get_devdata(spi->master);
>>         mcspi_dma = &mcspi->dma_channels[spi->chip_select];
>>         count = xfer->len;
>> @@ -359,7 +362,9 @@ static void omap2_mcspi_tx_dma(struct spi_device *spi,
>>         dma_async_issue_pending(mcspi_dma->dma_tx);
>>         omap2_mcspi_set_dma_req(spi, 0, 1);
>>   +     dev_info(&spi->dev, "Waiting for TX Completion\n");
>>         wait_for_completion(&mcspi_dma->dma_tx_completion);
>> +       dev_info(&spi->dev, "TX Completed\n");
>>         dma_unmap_single(mcspi->dev, xfer->tx_dma, count,
>>                          DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>>   @@ -392,6 +397,7 @@ omap2_mcspi_rx_dma(struct spi_device *spi, struct
>> spi_transfer *xfer,
>>         word_len = cs->word_len;
>>         l = mcspi_cached_chconf0(spi);
>>   +     dev_info(&spi->dev, "kicking RX DMA\n");
>>         if (word_len <= 8)
>>                 element_count = count;
>>         else if (word_len <= 16)
>> @@ -428,7 +434,9 @@ omap2_mcspi_rx_dma(struct spi_device *spi, struct
>> spi_transfer *xfer,
>>         dma_async_issue_pending(mcspi_dma->dma_rx);
>>         omap2_mcspi_set_dma_req(spi, 1, 1);
>>   +     dev_info(&spi->dev, "Waiting for RX Completion\n");
>>         wait_for_completion(&mcspi_dma->dma_rx_completion);
>> +       dev_info(&spi->dev, "RX Completed\n");
>>         dma_unmap_single(mcspi->dev, xfer->rx_dma, count,
>>                          DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>>         omap2_mcspi_set_enable(spi, 0);
>>
>>>> It would also be nice to have a clear picture of what "custom spi
>>>> driver" you're talking about.
>>>
>>> The custom SPI driver is for connecting and reading registers from an
>>> in house FPGA design and can be found at [1]. It's fairly rudimentary
>>> and also in the development stages, I'm very new to Linux kernel
>>> programming so please take that into account :)
>>
>> no problem ;-)
>>
>>> However it did work flawlessly with 3.2-psp.
>>
>> yeah, it could be some regression introduced somewhere, or just a bugfix
>> which was done on 3.2-psp and was missed upstream... annoying when those
>> happen :-p
>>
Can you try the following

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/misc.git spi-next

Alternatively you can use the linux-next.

And let me know if you still see the issue.
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