[U-Boot] [PATCH] spi: tegra: fix hand in set_mode()

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Sun Aug 21 04:17:08 CEST 2016


On 08/20/2016 05:52 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 18 August 2016 at 10:53, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> In tegra20_slink.c, the set_mode() function may be executed before the
>> SPI bus is claimed the first time, and hence the clocks to the SPI
>> controller may not be running. If so, any register read/write at this
>> time will hang the CPU. Fix this by ensuring the clock is running as soon
>> as the driver is probed. This is observed on the Tegra30 Beaver board.
>>
>> Apply the same clock initialization fix to all other Tegra SPI drivers so
>> that if set_mode() is ever implemented there, the same bug will not appear.
>> Note that tegra114_spi.c already operates in this fashion.
>>
>> The clock manipulation code is copied from claim_bus() to probe() rather
>> than moved. This ensures that any calls to set_speed() take effect; the
>> clock can't be set once during probe and left unchanged.
>>
>> Fixes: 5cb1b7b395c0 ("spi: tegra20: Add support for mode selection")
>> Cc: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at hostmobility.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/spi/tegra20_sflash.c | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/spi/tegra20_slink.c  | 4 ++++
>>  drivers/spi/tegra210_qspi.c  | 3 +++
>>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> You might consider storing the mode and not acting on it until later.
> But this is fine.

I did that in previous patch (I suppose you could call it V1, but it was 
so different in implementation that I didn't), but Jagan asserted that 
claim_bus() isn't the correct place to process the mode value, and 
that's the place any deferred value would need to be applied.


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