This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: sun4i: fix FIFO limit to the 4.6-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: spi-sun4i-fix-fifo-limit.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6d9fe44bd73d567d04d3a68a2d2fa521ab9532f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:46:49 +0000 Subject: spi: sun4i: fix FIFO limit From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6d9fe44bd73d567d04d3a68a2d2fa521ab9532f2 upstream. When testing SPI without DMA I noticed that filling the FIFO on the spi controller causes timeout. Always leave room for one byte in the FIFO. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-sun4i.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-sun4i.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-sun4i.c @@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ static int sun4i_spi_transfer_one(struct /* We don't support transfer larger than the FIFO */ if (tfr->len > SUN4I_FIFO_DEPTH) - return -EINVAL; + return -EMSGSIZE; + + if (tfr->tx_buf && tfr->len >= SUN4I_FIFO_DEPTH) + return -EMSGSIZE; reinit_completion(&sspi->done); sspi->tx_buf = tfr->tx_buf; @@ -270,8 +273,12 @@ static int sun4i_spi_transfer_one(struct sun4i_spi_write(sspi, SUN4I_BURST_CNT_REG, SUN4I_BURST_CNT(tfr->len)); sun4i_spi_write(sspi, SUN4I_XMIT_CNT_REG, SUN4I_XMIT_CNT(tx_len)); - /* Fill the TX FIFO */ - sun4i_spi_fill_fifo(sspi, SUN4I_FIFO_DEPTH); + /* + * Fill the TX FIFO + * Filling the FIFO fully causes timeout for some reason + * at least on spi2 on A10s + */ + sun4i_spi_fill_fifo(sspi, SUN4I_FIFO_DEPTH - 1); /* Enable the interrupts */ sun4i_spi_write(sspi, SUN4I_INT_CTL_REG, SUN4I_INT_CTL_TC); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hramrach@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/spi-sun4i-fix-fifo-limit.patch queue-4.6/spi-sunxi-fix-transfer-timeout.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html