Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: spi-cadence: Avoid read of RX FIFO before its ready

[Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 05:24:10AM +0000, Goud, Srinivas wrote:
> >On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:04:38PM +0000, Goud, Srinivas wrote:
> >> Cadence SPI configured in Slave mode,  when threshold is half of FIFO
> >> depth cdns_spi_read_rx_fifo() function continuously in read mode, due to
> >this we see incorrect data received on the Master side as Slave is failed to
> >update the TX FIFO on time.
> >
> >Apologies I am having a little trouble following this are you saying this part of
> >the patch cases issues for you running in slave mode?
> Yes, we see issue with this patch when we run in Slave mode.
> 
> When any master is in continuous read mode (anything > FIFO depth), 
> with updated logic cdns_spi_read_rx_fifo() function in cdns_spi_irq
> continuously in read loop to read complete half FIFO data.
> due to this Slave failed to write the TX FIFO on time and result in
> incorrect data in Master receive. 
> Whereas in my previous patch, data read and write happening byte wise,
> by which we are making sure data availability in TXFIFO on time.

That is a very tight system if reading 64 sequential memory locations
is the timing difference between success and failure, Linux is
not a real-time OS.

But I don't really mind moving back to a byte-wise operation. Although
we need to avoid the issues introduced by the first attempt at that. I
will have a look at doing a patch to put the byte-wise back in.

Thanks,
Charles