The purpose of the DMAFLUSHP instruction: - Tell the peripheral to clear its status and control registers. - Send a message to the peripheral to resend its level status. There are 3 timings described in PL330 Technical Reference Manual: - Timing 1: Burst request, can work well without DMAFLUSHP. - Timing 2: Single and burst request, DMAC will ignore the single transfer request. This timing happens if there are single and burst request. - Timing 3: Single transfers for a burst request, DMAC should signals datype to request the peripheral to flush the contents of any control registers. This timing happens if there is not enough MFIFO to places the burst data. A peripheral may signal a DMA request during the execution of DMAFLUSHP instruction, that cause DMA request being ignored by DMAC. But DMAC and all peripherals on RK3X SoCs DO NOT support DMAFLUSHP. It can't send a message to the peripheral to resend DMA request, and the peripheral can't acknowledge a flush request from DMAC. So all DMA requests should NOT be ignored by DMAC, and DMAC will not notify the peripheral to flush. To fix this problem, we need: - Do NOT execute DMAFLUSHP instruction. - Timing 2 and timing 3 should not happen. Because on RK3X SoCs, there are 6 or below channels and 32 MFIFO depth for DMAC_BUS, and 8 channels and 64 MFIFO depth for DMAC_PERI, it is impossible to hit the timing 3 if burst length is equal or less than 4. Since the request type signal by the peripheral can only be set by software. We can set Rockchip Soc's GRF_PERIDMAC_CON0[2:1] to select single or burst request, if it is set b01, all of the peripharals will signal a brust request. So the timing 2 will not happen, too. So DMAC on RK3X can support single or burst transfer, but can't support mixed transfer. Because burst transfer is more efficient than single transfer, this is confirmed by our ASIC team, who strongly suggest to use burst transfer. And this is confirmed by Addy's test on RK3288-Pink2 board, the speed of spi flash burst transfer will increase about two times than single transfer. Also, I have tested dw_mmc with pl330 on RK3188 platform to double confirm the result. That means burst transfer is reansonable. So we need a quirk not to execute DMAFLUSHP instruction and to use burst transfer. Note: - The Rockchip Soc default value of GRF_PERIDMAC_CON0[2:1] is b01. To support brust transfer, these bits should not be changed in bootloader. Changes in v5: - add Mark's tag for spi changes - remove unnecessary whitespace change - use switch statement for I2S dma_quirk's manipulation Changes in v4: - remove spi & i2s dts changes and query quirk from dmaengine API suggeseted by Mark. - fix typo - Add dmaengine_get_quirk hook and implement it for pl330 Changes in v3: - add Sunny's tag - add more rockchip drivers' changes in this patchset - add Reviewed-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Changes in v2: - amend the author - reorder the patches suggested by Doug - add Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> for rk3288.dtsi patch and arm-pl330.txt patch - amend Olof's mail address Changes in v1: - rename broken-no-flushp to "arm,pl330-broken-no-flushp" suggested by Krzysztof. - add From original author. - remove Sunny's tag Addy Ke (3): DMA: pl330: add quirk for broken no flushp ARM: dts: Add arm,pl330-broken-no-flushp quirk for rk3288 platform spi: rockchip: modify DMA max burst to 1 Boojin Kim (1): DMA: pl330: support burst mode for dev-to-mem and mem-to-dev transmit Shawn Lin (5): Documentation: arm-pl330: add description of arm,pl330-broken-no-flushp ARM: dts: Add arm,pl330-broken-no-flushp quirk for rk3xxx platform dmaengine: add API for getting dma controller's quirk DMA: pl330: implement dmaengine_get_quirks hook snd: dmaengine-pcm: add snd_dmaengine_pcm_get_quirks interface Yiwei Cai (1): ASoC: rockchip_i2s: modify DMA max burst to 1 .../devicetree/bindings/dma/arm-pl330.txt | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi | 3 + arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3xxx.dtsi | 3 + drivers/dma/pl330.c | 110 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/spi/spi-rockchip.c | 13 ++- include/linux/dmaengine.h | 9 ++ sound/soc/rockchip/rockchip_i2s.c | 21 ++++ sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c | 24 +++++ 8 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) -- 2.3.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html