On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 03:41:35PM +0100, Anton Bondarenko wrote: > From: Anton Bondarenko <anton_bondarenko@xxxxxxxxxx> > > RX DMA tail data handling doesn't work correctly in many cases with > current implementation. It happens because SPI core was setup > to generates both RX watermark level and RX DATA TAIL events > incorrectly. SPI transfer triggering for DMA also done in wrong way. > > SPI client wants to transfer 70 words for example. The old DMA > implementation setup RX DATA TAIL equal 6 words. In this case > RX DMA event will be generated after 6 words read from RX FIFO. > The garbage can be read out from RX FIFO because SPI HW does > not receive all required words to trigger RX watermark event. > > New implementation change handling of RX data tail. DMA is used to process > all TX data and only full chunks of RX data with size aligned to FIFO/2. > Driver is waiting until both TX and RX DMA transaction done and all > TX data are pushed out. At that moment there is only RX data tail in > the RX FIFO. This data read out using PIO. Have you looked at the RX_DMA_LENGTH and RXTDEN fields of the DMA register? These seem to be for handling the remaining bytes of a DMA transfer which do not reach the watermark level. From reading the documentation I haven't really understood how it works though. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- 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