This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mfd: ocelot-spi: Fix unsupported bulk read
to the 6.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mfd-ocelot-spi-fix-unsupported-bulk-read.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 85f1a7c0ceb30d35ffb04c8fd4bd9f97e913cba6
Author: Colin Foster <colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Mar 22 07:11:30 2023 -0700
mfd: ocelot-spi: Fix unsupported bulk read
[ Upstream commit f0484d2f80a72022b7fac72bcb406392900ef1eb ]
Ocelot chips (VSC7511, VSC7512, VSC7513, VSC7514) don't support bulk read
operations over SPI.
Many SPI buses have hardware that can optimize consecutive reads.
Essentially an address is written to the chip, and if the SPI controller
continues to toggle the clock, subsequent register values are reported.
This can lead to significant optimizations, because the time between
"address is written to the chip" and "chip starts to report data" can often
take a fixed amount of time.
When support for Ocelot chips were added in commit f3e893626abe ("mfd:
ocelot: Add support for the vsc7512 chip via spi") it was believed that
this optimization was supported. However it is not.
Most register transactions with the Ocelot chips are not done in bulk, so
this bug could go unnoticed. The one scenario where bulk register
operations _are_ performed is when polling port statistics counters, which
was added in commit d87b1c08f38a ("net: mscc: ocelot: use bulk reads for
stats").
Things get slightly more complicated here...
A bug was introduced in commit d4c367650704 ("net: mscc: ocelot: keep
ocelot_stat_layout by reg address, not offset") that broke the optimization
of bulk reads. This means that when Ethernet support for the VSC7512 chip
was added in commit 3d7316ac81ac ("net: dsa: ocelot: add external ocelot
switch control") things were actually working "as expected".
The bulk read opmtimization was discovered, and fixed in commit
6acc72a43eac ("net: mscc: ocelot: fix stats region batching") and the
timing optimizations for SPI were noticed. A bulk read went from ~14ms to
~2ms. But this timing improvement came at the cost of every register
reading zero due the fact that bulk reads don't work.
The read timings increase back to 13-14ms, but that's a price worth paying
in order to receive valid data. This is verified in a DSA setup (cpsw-new
switch tied to port 0 on the VSC7512, after having been running overnight)
Rx Octets: 16222055 # Counters from CPSW switch
Tx Octets: 12034702
Net Octets: 28256757
p00_rx_octets: 12034702 # Counters from Ocelot switch
p00_rx_frames_below_65_octets: 0
p00_rx_frames_65_to_127_octets: 88188
p00_rx_frames_128_to_255_octets: 13
p00_rx_frames_256_to_511_octets: 0
p00_rx_frames_512_to_1023_octets: 0
p00_rx_frames_over_1526_octets: 3306
p00_tx_octets: 16222055
Fixes: f3e893626abe ("mfd: ocelot: Add support for the vsc7512 chip via spi")
Signed-off-by: Colin Foster <colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322141130.2531256-1-colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c b/drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c
index 2ecd271de2fb9..85021f94e5874 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ static const struct regmap_config ocelot_spi_regmap_config = {
.write_flag_mask = 0x80,
+ .use_single_read = true,
.use_single_write = true,
.can_multi_write = false,
