Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] spi: dw: Add Tx/Rx finish wait methods to the MID DMA

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:07:50AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Since DMA transfers are performed asynchronously with actual SPI
> transaction, then even if DMA transfers are finished it doesn't mean
> all data is actually pushed to the SPI bus. Some data might still be
> in the controller FIFO. This is specifically true for Tx-only
> transfers. In this case if the next SPI transfer is recharged while
> a tail of the previous one is still in FIFO, we'll loose that tail
> data. In order to fix this lets add the wait procedure of the Tx/Rx
> SPI transfers completion after the corresponding DMA transactions
> are finished.

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> Fixes: 7063c0d942a1 ("spi/dw_spi: add DMA support")

Usually we put this before any other tags.

> Cc: Ramil Zaripov <Ramil.Zaripov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Are you sure Rob needs this to see?
You really need to shrink Cc lists of the patches to send them on common sense basis.

> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ditto.

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> Changelog v4:
> - Get back ndelay() method to wait for an SPI transfer completion.
>   spi_delay_exec() isn't suitable for the atomic context.

OTOH we may teach spi_delay_exec() to perform atomic sleeps.

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> +	while (dw_spi_dma_tx_busy(dws) && retry--)
> +		ndelay(ns);

I might be mistaken, but I think I told that this one misses to keep power
management in mind.

Have you read Documentation/process/volatile-considered-harmful.rst ?

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> +	while (dw_spi_dma_rx_busy(dws) && retry--)
> +		ndelay(ns);

Ditto.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko